Speaking of which, the other specs of this new panel are nothing to scoff at either. We're looking at a 34-inch ultrawide panel with a 1800R curvature and a fast 360 Hz refresh rate. Samsung Display has also achieved 1,300 nits of peak brightness for the first time on a QD-OLED panel, and monitors using it will be certified for HDR True Black 500, meaning 500 nits of peak brightness across 100% of the panel.
This new panel will debut at CES with options from a range of brands, including Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI, who've been supplied these panels since December 2025. That puts a retail launch at least a few months away, and even then, this will be one expensive monitor. No word on pricing yet, but we should learn more very soon.
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Jame5 If it has USB-C PD connectivity for my work laptop, it could be my next all-in-one monitor. Reply
Jabberwocky79 Nice! I scoffed at the complaints about text clarity until I finally shopped for a monitor in person. I then realized how bad it was and the text fringing was a deal-breaker for me. I'm speaking specifically to larger monitors. On my OLED 4K laptop OTOH, it has perfect text clarity, because, as the article stated, on denser screens the problem is less perceptible. Reply
Jame5 Yeah, I have a now ancient (7th gen Intel) 15" XPS with a 4K OLED display. Never once had any complaints about the text clarity. Reply
ThisIsMe I think you two missed something here. The OLED screens in your laptops are likely more traditional RGB-OLED screens or W-OLED screens. The article is referring to a different type of screen called QD-OLED. Anyway, from the article: “The red subpixel is the largest here because it carries a disproportionate share of perceived brightness — especially important in QD-OLED — while the blue subpixel is kept smallest because it’s inefficient, ages fastest, and has to be almost babied to protect the panel's lifetime.” Do you have a reference for this? Blue LEDs were very hard to create and have been known for being more fragile, but these aren’t LEDs. Also, QD-OLED panels use all white/blue OLED sub pixels because they are the most efficient and last the longest at comparable brightness. Samsung uses a type of inkjet printing to print Quantum Dots (QD) onto the white/blue OLEDs to change their color. The printed QDs are color conversion layers that convert the white/blue light into red, green, or blue as needed. It is more likely that the size difference is mainly due to the part about the perceived brightness and not much else. Again, if you have a reference I’d love to follow up on this a bit. Reply
Jabberwocky79 ThisIsMe said: I think you two missed something here. The OLED screens in your laptops are likely more traditional RGB-OLED screens or W-OLED screens. The article is referring to a different type of screen called QD-OLED. Anyway, from the article: “The red subpixel is the largest here because it carries a disproportionate share of perceived brightness — especially important in QD-OLED — while the blue subpixel is kept smallest because it’s inefficient, ages fastest, and has to be almost babied to protect the panel's lifetime.” Do you have a reference for this? Blue LEDs were very hard to create and have been known for being more fragile, but these aren’t LEDs. Also, QD-OLED panels use all white/blue OLED sub pixels because they are the most efficient and last the longest at comparable brightness. Samsung uses a type of inkjet printing to print Quantum Dots (QD) onto the white/blue OLEDs to change their color. The printed QDs are color conversion layers that convert the white/blue light into red, green, or blue as needed. It is more likely that the size difference is mainly due to the part about the perceived brightness and not much else. Again, if you have a reference I’d love to follow up on this a bit. You could be right, but one thing is certain, text fringing on QD-OLED panels is obviously less noticeable the more densely packed the pixel count is. It's a noticeable difference even going down from a 43" to, say, a 32" screen. Reply
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