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2023 was the year that QD-OLEDcrashed OLEDs party and took over the TV world.
Thebest OLED TVsoffer much more than LCD screens: near-perfect pictures.
When Samsung revealed QD-OLED technology on the Samsung S95C (pictured) it showed the difference quantum-dot could make when combined with OLED panels
One thing regular OLED (referred to as W-OLED) panels struggled with, though, was brightness.
It was worth it for the trade-off of the phenomenal picture quality you could get.
But that all changed whenSamsungintroduced QD-OLED, which combined the best of OLED and Quantum-dot technology, in 2022.
When Samsung revealed QD-OLED technology on the Samsung S95C (pictured) it showed the difference quantum-dot could make when combined with OLED panels
In 2023, this was well and truly improved by the Samsung S90C and Samsung S95C.
The technology was so good thatSonyreleased its own premium QD-OLED TVs in 2022 and 2023 theSony A95Kand Sony A95L.
So realistically, what could regular OLED do to keep itself in the game?
The Panasonic MZ2000 (pictured) has MLA technology included, giving brighter HDR highlights and colors, shown here inStar Wars: Rise of Skywalker
The answer was the introduction ofmicro-lens-array(MLA) technology.
This, in theory, would add extra levels of brightness to W-OLED panels to catch up with QD-OLED.
MLA was meant to lead to brighter OLED TVs but did it actually happen?
The LG G3 (left) shows just what an improved OLED screen, helped by MLA, can do compared to the regular OLED panel of the LG B3 (right)
But more importantly, what did this do for the picture itself?
