Yesterday BOE held its Innovation Partner Conference (IPC) at the Beijing APEC Center and the company unveiled a 55" 8K (160 PPI) OLED TV prototype produced by inkjet printing. The panel achieves a maximum brightness of 400 nits and a color gamut of 95% DCI-P3.
BOE inkjet-printed 55" 4K OLED TV (2018)
This is BOE's 2nd inkjet printing OLED TV prototype, the first one being a 55" 4K panel presented at BOE's 2018 IPC. These displays were both produced at BOE's R&D production line in Hefei that uses Kateeva's inkjet deposition equipment.
According to a report from Korea, BOE is working on two different technology tracks towards OLED TV commercialization - the inkjet printing one and also an architecture similar to LGD's WRGB (WOLED) TV architecture. It is reported that BOE's plans is to start ink-jet printing of OLED TVs no sooner than 2024.
Comments
Is the BOE printed 55-inch OLED a direct emission RGB oled display (and so, it would mean no color filters), or is based on LG display technology with WRGB with the emission of a single color (blue oled ?) that is converted to RGB with the use of different color filters ?
OLED may be yet another commodity technology if they wait until 2024 to begin mass production plans. Did you mean no later than 2024?
Any idea where the OLED materials come from? I'd hazard a guess at Sumitomo Chemical or Merck given DuPont sold their solution OLED IP to LG.