Samsung reveals an 8K TV that's 99% picture and practically bezel-free - CES 2020

[WYP]

It's tough to make out the bezel on this screen.



Read more about Samsung's 8K QLED TV that offers 99% screen and boosted image quality.

 

[AlienALX]

I'm not liking this idea of bezel free screens.

Like a picture they need a frame. Or the edges won't exist and it'll just look weird.

Just my opinion. I don't like massive bezels but yeah, seems weird to have none.

 

[grassman]

Seems like Samsung are hell bent on pushing LCD to it's limits, I predict in 10 years they will become the next Sony who pushed CRT's until its inevitable death.


Don't get me wrong I love CRT's but they weren't practical, Dragging the 27" early 90's JVC up and down the stairs was a complete nightmare.

 

[WYP]

Seems like Samsung are hell bent on pushing LCD to it's limits, I predict in 10 years they will become the next Sony who pushed CRT's until its inevitable death.


Don't get me wrong I love CRT's but they weren't practical, Dragging the 27" early 90's JVC up and down the stairs was a complete nightmare.

To be fair, Sony's Trinitron screens were amazing, and in some regards LCD screens are still worse than CRTs.

Seems the next step from QLED and OLED is to move to MicroLED, which is not to be confused with Mini LED. Hopefully, MicroLED will prove to be financially viable, have fewer issues than OLED and deliver in its low latency promises. That said, it will take a long time before MicroLEDs to be ready for consumer-grade products.

As far as Samsung goes, I think they may have backed the wrong horse by sticking to QLED (and not backing OLED). The per-pixel lighting nature of OLED is a huge advantage, and it is causing a lot of people to favour LG's screens. Even the name QLED makes me think that Samsung wanted it to look like OLED as much as they could.

 

[grassman]

To be fair, Sony's Trinitron screens were amazing, and in some regards LCD screens are still worse than CRTs.

Seems the next step from QLED and OLED is to move to MicroLED, which is not to be confused with Mini LED. Hopefully, MicroLED will prove to be financially viable, have fewer issues than OLED and deliver in its low latency promises. That said, it will take a long time before MicroLEDs to be ready for consumer-grade products.

As far as Samsung goes, I think they may have backed the wrong horse by sticking to QLED (and not backing OLED). The per-pixel lighting nature of OLED is a huge advantage, and it is causing a lot of people to favour LG's screens. Even the name QLED makes me think that Samsung wanted it to look like OLED as much as they could.

I think they are a pipe dream, Seems like to much power for such a tiny LED. OLED is exactly what we saw in our sci fi films growing up, We've reached the pinnacle of traditional display technologies from here on out we will see iterative improvements to OLED type displays(higher resolution smaller brighter etc). The next major leap will be Holographic displays.

 

[NeverBackDown]

OLED burn-in has significantly reduced though. Personally OLED is the best option to buy. BUT if the TV is going to go in a SUPER bright room then QLED is better. It's just simply brighter.

 

[grec]

I think they are a pipe dream, Seems like to much power for such a tiny LED. OLED is exactly what we saw in our sci fi films growing up, We've reached the pinnacle of traditional display technologies from here on out we will see iterative improvements to OLED type displays(higher resolution smaller brighter etc). The next major leap will be Holographic displays.

OLED is great for the time being, more than enough for most needs now burn-in isn't a significant issue below 10-year timescales.

But power efficiency and max brightness on microLED can be far, far better than OLED, even for current test models, microLED has a 50% higher lux/watt than OLED and upto x30 the max brightness.

(Obviously, this means if you maxed out a current microLED screen's brightness it would consume significantly more than OLED's max because it can go so much brighter, but if you used equal/comparable brightness for both screens the microLED screen would better the OLED model, and no one really needs those insane max brightness levels 99% of the time)