News TCL boasts about the 'image quality, power consumption, and lifespan' benefits of its latest inkjet-printed OLED displays

AkroZ

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TCL have a lead to sell monitors with unknown reliability in the medical field (like chirurgy) ? This seems unresponsable.

Netherless it is several years ago that I have heard that manufacturers tried to print LED monitors but they have too low yield.
Is TCL the first to make a breaktrough or this is just to ask for investors when the yield is so bad that it cost way more to produce than LG and Samsung and they hope to improve it with time ?
 
What about the most crucial factor of OLED screens: Durability. Increased brightness should allow it to last longer by surviving more wear leveling cycles, but will it allow a monitor displaying many static elements, such as a computer monitor or medical display (as mentioned in the article) to last, or at least warranty for parts and labor, say 15,000 or 30,000 hours (5 or 10 years at about 8 hours per day of use) without the user having to baby it?
 

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...company claims to cut internal light loss by 50 percent and boost light output efficiency by about 1.5 times.
That sentence feels redundant. Like whatever press release it was lifted from is trying to hype up the tech but didn't have anything else to say, so they said the same thing 2 different ways back to back.
 
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I remember when people were hyping that idea that we would be able to buy a specialty inkjet printer and print our own OLED screens, (and they would be flexible). Was that the late 90's?

It will take a while to see if these TCL displays work as well as they say. I am always up for a better display.
 

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I have a very positive view of TCL and I wish them the best of luck! I have used a TCL 43S405 TV for work everyday for the last 7 years and gave my sister a r613 55 in TV which cost practically nothing ($399) and it is lovely!
 
Didn't LG switch over to inkjet printing OLED screens when they started moving panel production over to China from S Korea back in 2018 with B8/C8 series? For the US, those were often assembled in Mexico using the Chinese panels to minimize tariffs. Those were the first 120Hz models but pretty pointless as they still didn't have HDMI 2.1 so you could only use it in some interpolated mode.

At the time the new inkjet production process was more touted for lower production cost instead of any image quality improvements. Especially when building a new factory, where it was then considered mature enough and way cheaper than building giant vacuum metallization type chambers.
 
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I have a very positive view of TCL and I wish them the best of luck! I have used a TCL 43S405 TV for work everyday for the last 7 years and gave my sister a r613 55 in TV which cost practically nothing ($399) and it is lovely!
I also have a cheap TCL tv that I got during Black Friday about 6-7 years ago that has been great.