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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: 3, Informative) by toddestan on Friday April 03 2020, @03:30AM (1 child)
The problem is the same one you have with the OLED TV's where eventually the CNN (or whatever) logo gets burned into the corner. Screen elements that rarely or never change will get burned in - i.e. the Start button in the corner on Windows systems, the close button on the top right of a maximized window.
I assume the best "screensaver" for an OLED is to just blank the screen, as drawing something on the screen, even if it's constantly changing, will slowly reduce the life of the display. Though I suppose it would be pretty safe for a screensaver to just light up the red LEDs, and maybe the green ones too. It's the blue ones that have the shortest lifespan.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 04 2020, @12:44AM
That is where you are mistaken. The reason why they chose designs, preferably ones with a lot of color, instead of blank screens or turning the monitor off is because exercising the screen reduces the burn-in look of the phosphors. In fact, a friend of mine used to take screens from businesses, like doctors offices, and put them through special programs just to get rid of the burn in. For a while, he made a killing doing the same with large plasma televisions for his corporate customers.