Last year’s CES was already packed with OLED displays, and this year there were several new OLED displays on display in Las Vegas. More than thirty new displays were introduced at or during the tech show, which is equal to the number of OLED displays you can buy right now according to our Pricewatch. While manufacturers like ASUS, Dell, and Samsung are already working on second or third generation OLED displays, brands like ASRock and HP are introducing their first OLED displays.

Whether you buy an OLED display from Gigabyte, Acer, or MSI, they all ultimately use the same panels, from two manufacturers: LG Display and Samsung Display. Both introduced new panel options ahead of CES, with the announced displays having different features than you could previously find in an OLED display. Consider a 32-inch 4K display with a 240Hz refresh rate, a 360Hz WQHD (2560 x 1440 pixels) display, or a 39-inch UWQHD UWQHD (3440 x 1440 pixels) display with a very sharp 800R curve.

In this article, we will first discuss the features of the newly announced panels and then list all the display announcements, organized by panel type. It’s not a complete overview. Although we’ve seen fairly complete spec sheets for a number of monitors, other manufacturers are revealing a little more than the resolution of their new screen. How practical the screen is to use and whether the colors are set correctly will only become clear after thorough testing. Most of the monitors do not yet have a price in euros or a specific sales date in the Benelux countries.

New panel options

LG Display is a supplier of Woled displays, with red, green and blue sub-pixels as well as a white pixel, which increases brightness. Samsung Display is the company that produces QD OLED panels, which use blue OLED displays and quantum dots For a wider range of colors. Panels based on OLED technologies are also used in OLED TVs.

A few of the displays were introduced last year at CES Inkjet printed OLEDThe paintings showed. These, as the name suggests, are rolled out from the printer and have the usual sub-RGB layout, unlike the LG Display and Samsung Display panels. Joled, which made printed panels, went bankrupt in the spring of 2023. That doesn’t mean it’s finally over for printed displays. like him Proven TCL will have another special bowl-shaped printed panel at the end of 2023. However, for now, the choice seems to be limited to Woled or QD-OLED. Aside from the remaining stock of monitors with inkjet printed displays, at the end of last year you had the option of monitors with the following features:

The new options for 2024 are shown in the table below. Note that some displays based on older panels were also announced at CES.

*Not confirmed for all displays advertised with this panel

LG’s new Woled panels have debuted, as previously reported by TFTCentral video,New sub-pixel format. The new RGB layout is closer to the usual RGB subpixel layout compared to the RGB layout of last year’s panels. This can make fine text appear clearer.

In his country press release LG Display mentions its Meta technology, which is its name for the new panels Micro lens set Which LG now also uses in its more premium TVs. A pattern of millions of lenses in front of the OLED panel focuses the emitted light, increasing brightness and improving viewing angles. Woled displays in particular could use higher brightness. Although the peak HDR brightness promised with last year’s Woled panels was as high as with QD OLED displays, 1000cd/m² on a small white space, in practice we saw this value only achieved with some Woled displays at a non-image preset. Accurate as the screen was very blue. Furthermore, the maximum full screen brightness, which is important for SDR viewing, can sometimes be lower than the 150cd/m² at which we typically run our tests.

Only ASUS has set peak brightness for all of its new Woled displays, which is an encouraging level of 1,300 cd/m². Even if this brightness can only be achieved in an imprecise preset, HDR peaks with accurate color reproduction are comparable to those of a QD OLED model. It’s possible that not all other new Woled displays are this bright, but at the same time the higher peak brightness doesn’t seem to be ASUS-specific; Also LG Give For its 32-inch WoLED 4k display, the brightness is 1300 cd/m².

The new generation of QD OLED panels seems to have changed less compared to last year. They still have the same triangular sub-pixel layout, with the red and blue pixels above the green. As a result, if you look closely, you can see some purple and green edges at the top and bottom of the high-contrast transitions. It’s in the text Hem color Especially visible with white text on a dark background. In general, the pixels in the new QD OLED panels are a little more square than they were in the first generation QD OLED panels. The higher pixel density of a 4K panel could also make color fringing less noticeable, but this would have to be proven through (longer) hands-on testing.

Sadly, Samsung doesn’t seem to have solved another flaw of QD-OLED with its new display panels; The screen surface has a gray appearance when ambient light enters the screen. As a result, visual contrast declines more quickly during the day than with WoLED or LCD displays.

While all previous QD OLED panels are reflective, the new QD OLED panels could have an anti-reflective coating, which Samsung is also demonstrating on its S95D OLED TV, for example. Samsung’s new QD OLED displays have this matte coating, but other display makers appear to have opted for it Bright QD OLED panel. This can also be an advantage, because the anti-reflective coating results in a shimmering effect on solid colors, as it also slightly scatters the light emitted by the screen itself. This can be seen, for example, in Woled displays that are generally matte. It must be seen to what extent the new wool panels are more or less affected by this effect.