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Panasonic will start making OLED like contrast LCD panels
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Panasonic on November 28 announced that it has developed LCD panels with a contrast of one million-to-one and display quality equivalent to that of OLED panels. Panasonic will begin sampling in January 2017 and start production of 10- to 100-inch models specifically for use in medical care and automotive displays in the third quarter.

    After phasing out from plasma TV panel production in 2013 and LCD TV panel production in 2016, Panasonic no longer has panel products for B2C sales and its only panel production plants in Japan currently only supply panels for B2B applications with a utilization rate of 25%.

    With the new panel technology, the company is expected to be able to manufacture using its existing production lines and will be able to avoid costs from investing in new OLED production line.

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  • olli66olli66

    damn it! I still have a Panasonic Plasma. Love the colors. No fan of LCDs. Their 904 series seems great though. So, now is the time to buy a Panasonic TV right? How will the news affect the prices (especially over Xmas?) What do you guys think?

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @olli66

    We do not know now that they mean under contrast.

    For now many TV manufacturer already archive huge contrast in on/off or large areas tests by turning off backlight.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

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    These panels can turn off the backlight on a per-pixel basis, granting them an advertised " over 1,000,000:1" contrast ratio.

    New light-modulating cells help the screens hit a maximum (and stable) brightness of 1,000 cd/m2

    All of this is very fuzzy, as it is LCD crystals that cut the light.

    May be they made special low bit second crystal having only 3-4 states (complete cut, complete open and something in between). And with very slow switch time.

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