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Samsung to Cease Traditional LCD Production, Move To Quantum Dot OLEDs
According to a report from Reuters, Samsung Display will cease production of traditional LCD displays by the end of the year. The move comes as the company is apparently turning its full efforts away from traditional liquid crystal displays and towards the company's portfolio of quantum dot technology. Building off of the Reuters report, ZDNet is reporting that Samsung is dropping LCD production entirely – including its quantum dot-enhanced "QLED" LCDs – and that their retooled efforts will focus on QD-enhanced OLED displays. A decision with big ramifications for the traditional LCD market, this means that by the end of the year, the LCD market will be losing one of its bigger (and best-known) manufacturers.
As recently as last year, Samsung Display had two LCD production facilities in South Korea and another two LCD plants in China. Back in October, 2019, the company halted production [in] one of the South Korean factories, and now plans to suspend production of LCDs at the remaining three facilities due to the low profitability and oversupply of traditional LCDs.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 02 2020, @07:39PM (5 children)
It would be possible to put a modern flat panel display, even LCD, into an old bulky CRT enclosure to provide comfort to those unable to adapt.
It is likely to be possible to put a QD enhanced OLED into an LCD enclosure.
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(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Thursday April 02 2020, @07:43PM
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2020, @08:20PM (3 children)
This doesn't make much sense. People don't use CRTs today because they are big. CRTs behave very differently from modern displays and a lot of contemporaneous video sources took advantage of that behaviour.
For example, a lot of equipment (such as most game systems made in in the 90s and earlier, including to some extent the 6th generation consoles, and most personal computers before the IBM PC) simply do not work properly with modern displays as they do all sorts of fun tricks with the analog video signals and basically none of those effects are correctly emulated in "modern flat panel displays". Perhaps the most famous trick is the so-called "240p" video mode where only the odd fields are ever sent to the display.
Decent results can be achieved on modern displays with the use of relatively expensive conversion hardware, but while these work pretty well they inevitably add some input lag which is not present on a real CRT (the lag is the the main reason why you can't play Duck Hunt with anything but a proper CRT).
Interlaced sources never look as good on an LCD as they do on a real CRT as real-time deinterlacers all mostly don't work very well.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 02 2020, @08:28PM
A modern PC could probably be fit into a PC case that predated the IBM PC.
A modern game system could possibly be put into a 90's and earlier game system.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2020, @09:11PM (1 child)
240p is basically a quick and dirty hack to turn an interlaced display back into a progressive scan one, and interlacing is an awful, dirty hack in general.
CRTs also suffer from bad flicker (TVs generally aren't so bad, but running a computer monitor below 85hz is like staring into a strobe light).
I absolutely do not miss eyestrain.
Really, the biggest drawback from moving from CRT has to be proper response time.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Immerman on Friday April 03 2020, @03:27AM
>Really, the biggest drawback from moving from CRT has to be proper response time.
And the contrast - LCD can't begin to match the deep blacks of a halfway decent CRT, though I understand OLED can.
LCD viewing angles are mostly pretty bad too. Especially when looking from below, which is especially important for...
The aspect ratio. Good luck finding a modern LCD with a nice tall aspect ratio instead of some wide short thing. You can rotate them 90* for a nice tall screen, but that lack of vertical viewing angle becomes painfully obvious when it's made horizontal. Good luck finding the sweet spot where your eyes aren't seeing distinctly different colors.