It looks like LCDs are on the way out, at least as far as Samsung Display is concerned. The company, which is a subsidiary of Samsung dedicated to making displays for all sorts of devices, has announced plans to phase out LCD production by the end of the year. That's a fairly big shift for Samsung Display, though not an entirely unexpected one as demand for LCDs seems to be falling.
While the entertainment industry, particularly theaters and film production, has been hit hard by this virus pandemic, some are finding a new wave of customers and users, mostly because those are stuck at home. Streaming and Video On Demand (VOD) services are on the rise and, unsurprisingly, it is also an opportunity for some brands to put their best products forward to help people while the days away, just like LG's latest generation of LG TVs coming very soon to the US.
As it teased last week, LG announced its lineup of OLED TVs for 2020 at CES today. Those TVs are joined by a collection of 8K NanoCell LCD TVs, with the OLED models available in both 4K and 8K. With all of that announced at CES, it seems that LG has big plans for its TV business in 2020.
LG has a new 65-inch rollable OLED UHD TV to show for CES 2020, very similar to what they last showed in the USA at CES 2019. Per LG, this new television concept "can be installed naturally as part of the space and can only be used down when needed." This might remind you of a classroom from your childhood, where a projector screen would be pulled (manually or automatically) from an overhead roll. Now that roll can be the television itself - not just a white panel of material for reflecting projected light.
Cadillac's 2021 Escalade won't just have presence from the road, but on the dashboard too, with the upcoming luxury SUV promising a vast curved OLED screen. Billed as the first use of curved OLED in a production vehicle, the new Escalade's huge panel will measure in at over 38-inches, the automaker has said today.
All three 2020 iPhone models will use an OLED panel, but there may still be good reason to opt for the more expensive smartphones, according to the latest chatter out of South Korea. Apple's line-up of iOS phones next year is still expected to consist of three models, with the smallest and largest - replacing the iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max getting a new, thinner OLED screen technology.
This year HP pulled out the stops when it came to their "best and brightest" with the HP Spectre x360 13 (for 2019). This is just the latest version of a laptop series HP's been improving upon each year since its introduction in March of 2015. Here in 2019, the design is very similar to the October 2018 version of the transforming laptop - but the bezels have been cut down considerably, giving the entire unit a 13% reduction in size.
OLED TVs look set to get more affordable, with the news that LG Display has kicked off production at its latest panel production plant. The 8.5th generation OLED facility is in Guangzhou, China, and will be focused not on smartphone displays but the sort of sizable screens required for TVs.
Today Dell and Alienware revealed the Alienware 55 OLED Gaming Monitor, the first 55-inch OLED Gaming Monitor in the world, per Dell. This device has fast IPS (in-plane switching) tech, 120Hz variable refresh rate, and 0.5ms (gray-to-gray) response time. Up front it's all gaming business, around back it sports Alienware's newest industrial design ethos in full effect - it's simple, yet bold, and it rolls with AMD Radeon FreeSync technology under its hood.
If you thought that wearables like smartwatches and bracelets were the pinnacle of fashion and technology, Louis Vuitton would beg to disagree. The luxury fashion brand has just revealed a fusion that will leave you in awe and bewilderment, in both good and bad ways. Presented as part of its 2020 Cruise Collection, this "Canvas of the Future" adds real OLED screens on a duffle bag and a bucket bag which are sure to attract the attention of everyone, including less savory individuals.
You can usually rely on Bang & Olufsen to make home entertainment tech that's almost more exciting than the media you play on it, but even by those standards the new Beovision Harmony TV is an ostentatious spectacle. The new TV, launched at Milan Design Week, dips into the classic B&O themes of theatrical movement and animation, rising and flourishing like a high-tech butterfly.
If you've been holding off on a laptop upgrade until the next big thing in screen tech arrives, Samsung Display has some excellent news for you. The company has shown off its latest OLED panel, a 15.6-inch Ultra HD screen that it says is the first such UHD display for the notebook market.