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Samsung Unveils a 15.6-Inch OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) Display for Laptops

posted by martyb on Thursday January 24 2019, @08:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-and-better-pixels dept.

takyon writes:

15-inch, 4K OLED laptops are coming thanks to new displays from Samsung:

Larger OLED laptop screens are coming sooner than we anticipated. Samsung Displays announced that it has made a 15.6-inch 4K laptop display and will begin producing the panels next month. The company plans on providing them to other manufacturers to put into their premium notebooks.

[...] Samsung's 15.6-inch display has a brightness range of 0.0005 to 600 nits, and its spectrum of 34 million colors is double that of similar, 15-inch LCD panels. Samsung claims that its panel can produce blacks that are 200 times darker than those of LCD panels, and whites will be more than twice as bright. These attributes contribute to the HDR capabilities of the panel, and the company claims that the panel passes VESA's new DisplayHDR TrueBlack standard.

The cost? Don't ask.

Also at Engadget.

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  • (Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Friday January 25 2019, @01:51PM (1 child)

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Friday January 25 2019, @01:51PM (#791724)

    Glossy or Matte ???

    I much prefer a matte screen but don't see any mention of it, shame.

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  • (Score: 0) by fakefuck39 on Saturday January 26 2019, @02:29PM

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Saturday January 26 2019, @02:29PM (#792292)

    Here's the think - the pixels are tiny now. The reason matte is matte is it scatters light.

    This works for the light currently annoying me with a reflection of my shirt as I type this on the glossy screen. In this case, matte would be good.

    This scattering also works for light coming from the nice sharp edges of things my screen is displaying, making them blurry. That's bad. What's better, in my opinion? I don't like either and can't choose.

    If you thin like I did that matte is worth the tradeoff, try this: Play a 4k video on your 4k display. Now change it to 1080p while playing, w/o stopping the video. Wow, why does that look like shit now... You don't notice this when you just play 1080p - it seems that's as good as you need.

    Wait, that's not the topic, sorry. Display an image with some contrasty edges on a glossy high-res screen. Steal a matte filter sheet from your coworker and place it on your glossy screen. Wow, why does that look like shit now... You don't notice this when you just use a matte screen - it seems good enough.

    It's because it scatters light, both reflected and outgoing.