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Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020

posted by martyb on Thursday April 02 2020, @07:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2020, @08:24PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2020, @08:24PM (#978441)

    Their only advantage is form factor; having to choose between bad color reproduction and bad lag, and finally pay at least twice the price of a CRT for a device visibly inferior in both, is a ridiculous result for 20 years of "progress".

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  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday April 02 2020, @10:32PM (1 child)

    by acid andy (1683) on Thursday April 02 2020, @10:32PM (#978473) Homepage Journal

    ...and a crappy range of acceptable viewing angles...

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2020, @11:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2020, @11:17PM (#978482)

      Another part is 6-bit (!) actual color depth in many LCD panels, which is then masked by "temporal dithering". Fill an area with a long gradient (say 512+ pixels) and look closely; if you get a swarm of flickering darker/lighter pixels, here it is.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 03 2020, @03:02PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 03 2020, @03:02PM (#978726) Journal

    You haven't priced a CRT lately, have you? Neither have I. I kinda wonder what it would cost, if I could find a nice, new, shiney 24" CRT.