TCL is promising brighter, cheaper, and less power-hungry OLED monitors

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Something to look forward to: If you've ever used or seen an OLED monitor, you'll know that they're fantastic for gaming. But they do come with a few drawbacks, not least of which is their usually high prices. But TCL says its new display tech manufacturing process will not only make these OLEDs brighter, longer lasting, and less power hungry, but it will also result in cheaper end products.

At the recent Omdia Korea Display Conference, Ming-Jong Jou, Chief of the Technology Planning Center, talked more about CSOT (TCL's manufacturing arm) and its inkjet-printed OLED technology.

As the name suggests, the technique uses large, precise inkjet printers to produce the displays. This reduces the amount of generated waste material compared to traditional OLED production, which relies on evaporation processes in which the organic materials are deposited onto a glass sheet through a thin metal stencil.

Inkjet printing is currently used in the encapsulation layer deposition process in most modern OLED production and to deposit the quantum dots in Samsung QD-OLEDs, writes OLED-info. TCL is expanding it into the emitters and other stack materials.

As reported by flatpanelshdHD, TCL CSOT claims its printed RGB OLED now has a 50% reduction in light loss due to internal reflection, and a 1.5 times improvement in light output efficiency. The lifespan has also been significantly enhanced.

Moreover, the company says it has achieved all this while also reducing total manufacturing costs by 20% and shortening the product development cycle by 30%.

This isn't the first time we've heard about TCL's inkjet printing methods. In 2023, the Chinese firm showed off a 65-inch prototype OLED panel (above) with an 8K resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, and a 1800R curve built using the technology. TCL said at the time that inkjet printing increases the utilization rate of luminescent materials by two times to 90 percent while reducing blue light radiation by 50 percent.

TCL has also showed off other products that used the process, including a 31-inch 4K dome-shaped OLED, and a 14-inch 2.8K laptop OLED.

According to reports, TCL CSOT plans to begin small-scale production of inkjet-printed OLED panels by the end of this year, starting with a 21.6-inch 4K OLED panel for medical monitors. It aims to expand production to medium-sized OLED panels for IT devices (I.e., laptops and monitors) in 2025.

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65" 8k120 OLED? That would be a dream for me. Before I take money out of my 401k I'd have to be atleast 85". I would also need it to last atleast 10 years. Considering It would cost me as much a new car.
 
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yRaz said:
65" 8k120 OLED? That would be a dream for me. Before I take money out of my 401k I'd have to be atleast 85". I would also need it to last atleast 10 years. Considering It would cost me as much a new car.
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Dream smaller, DELL U4025QW (40" 5K, 120Hz), for about $1800, nothing beats it.
 
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VitalyT said:
The person who designed that monitor, does he look like this? -
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Dream smaller, DELL U4025QW (40" 5K, 120Hz), for about $1800, nothing beats it.
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I will never dream smaller, and my specific setup is my home theater and gaming PC, I have an adjustable height rolling desk I use for standing or lower it and pull it over to the couch and use it there. The thing is, angular distance is what I care about. I feel more comfortable having the same angular distance but sitting far away. There is also a natural volumetric effect that happens that makes things feel 3D. I noticed this years ago when gaming on my 46" TV compared to the 24" monitor. In 2017 I went all in on it and bought one of the only 65" 4k120 TVs at the time and it was exactly the experience I was looking for.

So 85" 8k120 MicroLED is my dream display with OLED being acceptable. Frankly, they aren't that far away so I'm probably 2 years away from my dream display existing with it being affordable in 4 years.
 
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yRaz said:
65" 8k120 OLED? That would be a dream for me. Before I take money out of my 401k I'd have to be atleast 85". I would also need it to last atleast 10 years. Considering It would cost me as much a new car.
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When we went from 1080p to 4k there was a lot of middle ground like 1440p, 1600p, 1440p ultra wide, 1080p ultra wide, 1440p super ultra wide. Now we go from 4k ( almost decade old available resolution for monitors) straight to 8k. Where are the middle ground resolutions with higher ppi than 4k but less demanding than 8k like 4k uktrawide or 6k monitors with 16:9 and 21:9 aspect ratios?
While they are probably targeting TVs here as demographic market I would consider a 6k 16:9 monitor at 120hz minimal as more ideal for a gaming monitor in the next 5 years due to the horse power requirements to push 8k 120hz.
8k 120hz would be great for a future proof decade old display with dp 2.1 UHBR full 80 GBS bandwidth, but you will likely pay the upfront premium for early adapter fee without the hardware to run it on initially. When the hardware catches up the price will probably come down significantly.
 
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When we went from 1080p to 4k there was a lot of middle ground like 1440p, 1600p, 1440p ultra wide, 1080p ultra wide, 1440p super ultra wide. Now we go from 4k ( almost decade old available resolution for monitors) straight to 8k. Where are the middle ground resolutions with higher ppi than 4k but less demanding than 8k like 4k uktrawide or 6k monitors with 16:9 and 21:9 aspect ratios?
While they are probably targeting TVs here as demographic market I would consider a 6k 16:9 monitor at 120hz minimal as more ideal for a gaming monitor in the next 5 years due to the horse power requirements to push 8k 120hz.
8k 120hz would be great for a future proof decade old display with dp 2.1 UHBR full 80 GBS bandwidth, but you will likely pay the upfront premium for early adapter fee without the hardware to run it on initially. When the hardware catches up the price will probably come down significantly.
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Most of the games I play are 10+ years old and there is always upscaling. Currently, all the games I play on a regular basis play 90-100FPS 4k Max on a 6700xt. By the time 8k120 displays exist and are affordable, the games I want to play regularly will run fine on a modern midranged card.

Also, most of the tooling in display manufacturing is designed for 16:9 ratios and anything outside of that becomes a speciality item and expensive to manufacture.

Anyway, I'll be happy with a 16:9 85" 8k120 display and I got 6 wonderful years out of my 65" 4k120 display. My display was $3200 at the time I bought it which is closer to $4000 in today's money. If I can get an 85" 8k120 display in 4 years for ~5k then I'll be fine with it
 
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TCL can't make a flip phone worth a damn, I know that. I have the TCL Flip Go. It gives me ONE msg audio alert. No, option to repeat, until physically pick up and checked. So, if I'm in the shower, or somewhere I don't hear that phone message, I have to physically pick up the phone, to check for msg's??? I simply do NOT understand the manufacture's thought process in this regard???
 
Win7user said:
TCL can't make a flip phone worth a damn, I know that. I have the TCL Flip Go. It gives me ONE msg audio alert. No, option to repeat, until physically pick up and checked. So, if I'm in the shower, or somewhere I don't hear that phone message, I have to physically pick up the phone, to check for msg's??? I simply do NOT understand the manufacture's thought process in this regard???
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That's a market they are not known for. You took a risk for sure. TCL is a big competitive player in the TV market. Current QM7 and 8 are very decent for example.
 
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Planning a 21.6" medical monitor makes me think that TCL is more interested in profit rather than gamers.

Its about time, however, that Ink Jet OLEDs hit the market en-masse. The potential of this particular production technology has been looming in the background for long enough.
 
hahahanoobs said:
That's a market they are not known for. You took a risk for sure. TCL is a big competitive player in the TV market. Current QM7 and 8 are very decent for example.
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I've bought two TVs this year: a LG C3 to replace a dead LG from 2011 and a TCL QM7 to replace an older Samsung. The QM7 is really impressive for the price. I would absolutely recommend it.
 
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