For several years now, micro-LED has been touted as the next big thing in TV tech (and screen tech in general). Micro-LED tech works like the best OLED TVs in that each pixel emits its own light, meaning you get pixel-precise contrast with infinitely deep black tones – however, the pixels can be far brighter than may ever be possible with OLED, and they should be more durable and longer-lasting.
But despite being brought to TVs several years ago, micro-leading TVs haven’t seen much movement. They’re incredibly popular and only come in very large sizes, most commonly exceeding the 100-inch battery (although Samsung has controlled the generation’s compatibility in a 75-inch package). And those massive sets are still in 4K, while you’re waiting for Samsung to make them in 8K.
So why hasn’t more progress been made, and will this change soon? I’ve already heard from one big manufacturer of the tech that it’s between five and 10 years away from being remotely mainstream, so at a recent Hisense event to highlight the company’s also huge (but much less expensive than micro-LED) laser TVs (which combine ultra short throw projection tech with a specially matched light-rejection screen), I spoke to Dr. Liu Xianrong, Chief Scientist and General Manager of Hisense Laser Display, about the future of giant screens.
He explained that the challenge with micro-LEDs, similar to OLED TVs, is that they have constant prices and a complexity in their production process that is not reduced by making the TVs smaller, and there is no apparent way to replace the load and complexity. on the horizon, so the economics of the micro-targeted display structure may not be able to bring it to the dominant situation of so early.
Dr. Liu explained that the challenge in the case of micro-leading TVs is that Pixel is made up of 3 sub-pixels (red, green and blue) and those pixels are created through other corporations and they want to accumulate and then combined When making the panel.
The equivalent of this can be considered simply as the masking process, which once again requires that the devices of other places be deposited using an elaborate and expensive system, which has not replaced much since the launch of the technology, which is why the value has increased. He remained high. The ink injection OLED intends to be the solution to this in the case of OLED, but they promised us that this generation has been running for a long time (although TCL CSOT, the production and progression arm of TCL screens, says that this generation is already is available). for smaller screens).
Amusingly, it’s possible to make very small micro-LED screens with extremely high pixel density – think something designed for the best smartwatches – as well as very large micro-LED screens, but getting something made in the middle is where it falls apart, but that’s what we really need for most TVs.
Dr Liu said there’s another complication with micro-LED TVs in development, though, that stems from the fact that the pixels do all the work for both the brightness and the color. When you want to make a processing adjustment to the brightness, you can’t help but affect the color, and vice versa. It makes the whole panel extremely complicated to keep looking perfect, again affecting how costly the whole system is to develop and produce.
In the latest television technologies, adding mini-LEDs, laser and OLED TVs when used in televisions, there are different elements that can help reduce this problem. Mini-LED uses a network of small LED lighting fixtures to generate the brightness, a set of pixels in the conversion colors (which usually employs quantum dots). You can control those items separately to compensate for the adjustments you’ve made to the other and keep things consistent. QD-Oled is similar, in that a blue/green OLED pixel layer is a layer of color bordered with quantum dots.
And while laser TVs manage the projector’s all-in-one color and brightness, the screen is anything that can evolve separately to assistive brightness, for example, Hisense offers a screen rejection screen with its laser TVs. Gentle ambient, which can roughly double the brightness compared to this. to a fundamental screen, so you can still use the fact that they are separated for help, affects the image.
Centering everything on a set of RGB subpixels for micro-LED adds complexity that can be overcome (OLED phone displays use an RGB subpixel layout), again, only explaining why TVs will likely remain expensive. and why it will be slow to change.
Micro-Led and Mini-Led arrived at the world at the same time: Samsung announced their first mini-read and micro-read televisions exactly in the same event. But the value of the most productive mini-read televisions has fallen rapidly, so instead of limiting elite televisions, the generation can now be achieved on very intelligent and affordable televisions, such as the U6n tense and TCL C805 ( only in the United Kingdom and Europe). ).
Micro-Led seems to be far from having the same affordable revolutionary moment, even when giant televisions are increasingly popular and deserve to be ideal for that. It is probably the next great novelty on televisions; Do not expect the “next” to be just around the corner.
Matt is Techradar’s editor-in-chief for entertainment, which means he’s guilty of persuading our team of writers and critics to watch new TV shows and videos on lovely TVs and pay attention to the cool speakers and headphones . It is a complicated task, as you can imagine. Matt has over a decade of experience in generation publishing and past LED TV and audio policy for our colleagues at T3. com, and before that, he edited T3 magazine. Over the course of his career, he has also signed Bliss as diverse as creative bloq, PC Gamer, Petsradar, MacLife and Edge. television and Movie Nerdism is his specialty and he will hit the videos 3 times a week. You’re happy to explain the virtues of Dolby vision over a drink, but you’d still probably have to use props, as if you were explaining the offside rule.
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