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Samsung to unveil new Micro LED TV this week | Yonhap News Agency

SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will introduce a new Micr...

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Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will introduce a new Micro LED TV later this week as the South Korean tech giant tries to further boost its presence in the premium TV market.

Samsung said it will unveil its new Micro LED TV product at a webinar Thursday. The world's largest TV producer has yet to reveal the product's specification and price, but industry insiders predict it will be a Micro LED TV for home entertainment use.

The Micro LED TV uses micrometer-sized LED modules as singular pixels that can also self-illuminate, which provides better resolution and higher clarity.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, Samsung introduced new 88-inch and 150-inch models of its Micro LED TV brand, the Wall, completing its full lineup of home cinema-use Micro LED products with 75-, 88-, 93- and 110-inch display sizes.

Han Jong-hee, head of the visual display business at Samsung, then said the company plans to launch home-accommodating micro LED TVs in the second half in markets that include the United States and Europe, adding it is getting close to mass-production of such TVs.

Gonna be super expensive I'm sure, but cool to see.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Finally we arrived at the future.
Even bigger TVs.

 

[Rentahamster]

Finally, something with the prefix "micro-" that doesn't give me PTSD!

 

[ManofOne]

I didnt see an estimated price.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Finally, something with the prefix "micro-" that doesn't give me PTSD!

As a hamster you are definitely in the target group for micro stuff.

 

[dolabla]

Finally we arrived at the future.
Even bigger TVs.

Will be interesting to see if they've gotten the size down. From everything I've read, that has been the main drawback of Micro LED. They just couldn't/can't get the LED's small enough for smaller tv's.

 

[IDKFA]

Finally we arrived at the future.
Even bigger TVs.

Tell me about it. In 2003 I purchased a 30 inch TV, which I thought was massive at the time. Before that I was using a 15 inch portable!

Now we have TVs that are the size of walls. What a time to be alive.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Will be interesting to see if they've gotten the size down. From everything I've read, that has been the main drawback of Micro LED. They just couldn't/can't get the LED's small enough for smaller tv's.

Imagine a tv with those fat 80ies electronics experiments set size LEDs in red, green and blue.

I'd buy that.

 

[wachie]

I didnt see an estimated price.

Still under estimation.

 

[and 3 others]

I didnt see an estimated price.

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

 

[ManofOne]

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Weird the hooker last week told me the same thing

 

[and 3 others]

Weird the hooker last week told me the same thing

You will never get this, la la la.

 

[n0razi]

Welp, time to throw out my OLED

 

[Goro Majima]

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Yeah whenever they announce new shit I'm usually like "cool! can't wait to maybe get one in 5 years"

Like there's no way that 150" TV won't be a five figured tv price like a lot of them are now.

 

[and 3 others]

Yeah whenever they announce new shit I'm usually like "cool! can't wait to maybe get one in 5 years"

Like there's no way that 150" TV won't be a five figured tv price like a lot of them are now.

75" will probably be 9k or more.

 

[iconmaster]

I didnt see an estimated price.

Extremely reasonable

for an individual micro LED

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Neat. I'll be able to afford one before Bayo releases.

 

[LOLCats]

its micro vs mini and not oled. but who knows if better.... not in contrast but maybe so good we cant see it.

 

[DonMigs85]

this is supposed to be the most flawless display tech yet right? None of the drawbacks of LCD and OLED

 

[dolabla]

this is supposed to be the most flawless display tech yet right? None of the drawbacks of LCD and OLED

Yep. It's supposed to be a combination of brightness you get with LCD (probably brighter) and the blacks/contrast/viewing angles you get with OLED without the burn in worries.

 

[Cunth]

am i the only one who cant see any difference between all these screen technologies

 

[Durask]

Once the price comes down this will be a great replacement for my projector setup.

Projectors still can't do HDR as well as TVs and I doubt they will ever be able to.

 

[Haint]

I'm going to guess $15,000 - $30,000 for a 4K 80-someodd inch model with visible seams between the panels.

 

[UnNamed]

Years ago I thought OLED was the inevitable future, but now I think Miniled/Microled will prevail.

 

[BluRayHiDef]

What has happened to TCL's 8K Vidrian sets that are supposed to be released this year as their new 8 Series? They also use Micro-LED technology and will have up to 5000 local-dimming zones. Have they been delayed until next year?

 

[West Texas CEO]

We should have hologram tech by now, wtf is this?

 

[Insane Metal]

WAT

No way, already? These have been expect to be ready by 2025?

 

[YCoCg]

55 to 65 inch is still the most popular sizes being sold so if they want it to take off with a bang they're gonna need to at least cover those. It'd be nice to see if it could be pushed in monitor tech as well as there's a massive market in the 24 to 32 inch department who have been waiting for new screen tech for ages.

 

[The ninja farmer]

Mini and micro are very different and one is about 5 ish years away.

Mixing them up, probably isn’t the best way forward (isn’t the delayed tcl a mini ?)

 

[Rikkori]

LOL this is gonna be funny. Expect mid-6 digits price. Worst of all is that they're fucking awful to maintain. A business I know bought one of these but had nothing but issues.

 

[Rival]

If anyone wants a 77” oled mine will be in the dumpster behind my condo.

 

[dolabla]

Here we go. A smaller 110" Micro LED tv for you, GAF. Currently on presale in Korea and launching globally next year. Get your wallets out!

Samsung's huge MicroLED TVs start at 110 inches and go down to 76

The 110-inch 4K TV is on sale for $156,000, and Samsung teased a 76-inch size to go with the 88- and 99-inch models.

www.cnet.com

Samsung's MicroLED televisions like The Wall are always some of the biggest products at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in January -- literally. Last year's version was a 292-inch monster composed of individual modules that required custom installation and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Launching today in Korea is the latest version, a MicroLED TV in a fixed size of 110 inches. It's the next step in the progress of MicroLED from custom-built tech show darling to something that could eventually find a place in the homes of everyday people.

Let's get this out of the way first: As of press time Samsung's representatives haven't said how much the new TV costs. We'll update this article when we have that information, but in any case it won't be cheap. For comparison's sake Samsung's puny 98-inch 8K TV costs $60,000 and uses standard LCD-based QLED display technology, not MicroLED.

MicroLED -- not to be confused with Mini-LED -- is the first new screen technology in a decade and is more akin to OLED than LCD. It delivers perfect black levels and high brightness because it uses millions of tiny LEDs to create the image directly, for picture quality that's potentially better than OLED, the best currently available, without the possibility of burn-in.

The 110-inch TV has 4K resolution, an engineering feat because the main hurdle facing the mass adoption of MicroLED is getting it small enough. Since the new model is prefabricated, "installation and calibration is streamlined" compared to the earlier modular version, according to Samsung. The company promises even smaller MicroLED in the future and showed a 75-inch prototype in 2019.

The new 110-inch MicroLED TV is basically the size of four 55-inch TVs stuck together, and a feature called MultiView lets you connect multiple devices simultaneously and watch up to four things at once. Lucky owners can "enjoy watching news, movies, and other apps simultaneously on one screen -- so they can keep up with multiple sports at once, or stream a walkthrough while playing a video game, all in stunning quality and size," according to the release.

In terms of design the set is pretty much all screen. Samsung has removed the bezel around the screen entirely and touts a 99.99% screen-to-body ratio. The TV can also deliver 5.1-channel sound and incorporates object tracking to follow the sound of stuff moving across the screen.

The 110-inch MIcroLED goes on presale in Korea today and will be available worldwide starting next year.

 

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