Samsung's KN55S9C sub-pixel design

French site Lesnumeriques posted an article on Samsung's KN55S9C curved OLED TV, in which they include a macro-photo showing the TV's sub pixels up close:

As you can see, the blue subpixels are bigger than the red and green ones (about twice as large). This was designed this way because the blue OLED has the lowest lifetime - if it is bigger then you can lower the brightness and so conserve lifetime. We've seen many OLED displays with differently-sized subpixels - including PenTile ones and the rather unique display used in the Note 2.

Read the full story Posted: Sep 01,2013

CPT shows an AMOLED based smart glass HMD

Taiwanese CPT is showing a new prototype smart glass HMD that uses an AMOLED microdisplay. This Google Glass like product is "ready to ship":

CPT is using a 0.5" 800x600 (SVGA) microdisplay with a display area of 10.13x7.61 mm. It simulates a 15" display from 2.5 meters. As far as I know OLighTEK (a Chinese-based OLED microdisplay maker) is the only company that ships 0.5" SVGA OLED microdisplays so it is likely that they are the display supplier. CPT is also developing AMOLED displays, but as far as I know they do not produce OLED microdisplays.

Read the full story Posted: Sep 01,2013

Samsung's missing OLED TVs from IFA 2012 finally found in Germany

A year after two Samsung OLED TVs were lost in Germany during shipment to the IFA 2012 show, it is reported today that those two TVs were finally found in Germany. The two 55" flat OLED TVs were found in Germany and were not damaged (the paper boxes were ripped open though). Samsung asked the German police to continue its investigation due to the possibility of its link to a technology leak.

It's been a while since we heard anything regarding Samsung and LG's OLED technology feud. The two Korean companies have been fighting over OLED (and other technologies) patents for a long time.The companies agreed to resolve their OLED dispute outside of the court of law and SDC's CEO even said the two companies are considering cross-licensing patents - but the OLED issues between the two Korean giants obviously isn't over and in April 2013 it was reported that the South Korean police searched the offices of Samsung Display as part of the investigation into alleged large-sized OLED TV technology theft from LG Display.

Read the full story Posted: Sep 01,2013