Smol but feisty- LG plans to introduce 20-inch OLED panels this year

[Lightwreather]

Summary

LG Display is planning to release consumer-device-oriented 20" OLED panels by the end of this year. The news comes from South Korean electronics news site The Elec, which reported details from a speech to the Korea Display Industry Association by LG Display Vice President Kang Won-seok. The executive also said the company is working on OLEDs for mixed reality devices, a new 77-inch transparent OLED size, and bendable OLEDs where the user can adjust the amount of curve on the fly.

 

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LG plans to introduce a 20-inch OLED panel by the end of the year, and unlike most other offerings in this size, it will be used in consumer devices.

LG is the leading manufacturer of OLED panels for several other device categories, and the company has been making panels for watches, TVs, and smartphones—but this will be the first time the company will make OLEDs suitable for computer monitors or smaller televisions.

 

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LG Display vice president Kang Won-seok said during a forum hosted by the Korea Display Industry Association said demand for personal displays has risen during the pandemic and the new panel size is aimed at meeting this demand.

Kang also explained that for OLED panels aimed at gaming, it was seeking immersive reality in development whereas it wants to offer natural reality for its OLED panels aimed at conventional TV viewing.

For gaming OLED panels, which saw demand also increase during the pandemic, fast response time was the top priority while the company is also working to make sure the realistic resolution stays the same even when the surrounding environment is too bright.

출처 : THE ELEC, Korea Electronics Industry Media(http://thelec.net)

My thoughts

So, it seems that LG Displays (the subsidiary that produces and sells the displays, not the one producing the devices) is set on producing 20" OLED panels. This might actually be a good thing for monitors and such, tho with many many monitors these days being 21 or 27", it's kinda hard to image this will be anywhere but Laptops, portable monitors and IFE systems on aircraft. Maybe we'll see them on smartphones too. That being said, it may be a while before we this tech implemented in any kind of device but suffice to say I'm excited to see how OLED tech progresses.

 

Sources

ArsTechnica

TheElec

[Quackers101]

smaller would be nice, borderless and stack? or if they have the right size and price, I guess.

some of these systems are not great use for it, if by the lack of brightness and reflection?

[BobVonBob]

I'm curious how they plan for these to be used. 20 inches is too big for a laptop and seems a bit too small for a mainstream monitor or TV. OLED smart fridge?

[porina]

49 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

I'm curious how they plan for these to be used. 20 inches is too big for a laptop and seems a bit too small for a mainstream monitor or TV. OLED smart fridge?

This was my thought. Laptops top out around 17". Monitors start around 24", although 20" was a size in the past I'm not sure if that's still a thing at all. I have to wonder if we're too PC-centric to think of other "consumer" uses. 

[Vishera]

The biggest laptop screens on the market are 17"but on desktop most people use 22" or bigger.

So 20" is a weird in between laptop and desktop displays.

[CTR640]

Hopefully there will be portable 20" oled monitors. Asus introduced the MQ16AH in case everyone thinks portable monitors doesn't exist.

INNOCN has portable oled monitors too.

[dizmo]

We've had OLED displays on phones for I want to say decades at this point. 

 

LG's were worse. 

[Brooksie359]

3 hours ago, CTR640 said:

Hopefully there will be portable 20" oled monitors. Asus introduced the MQ16AH in case everyone thinks portable monitors doesn't exist.

INNOCN has portable oled monitors too.

Idk about you but for me portable monitors is such a niche device that I find it hard to believe that they would start producing 20 inch oled displays just for that. At first I thought maybe a big tablet but 20 inches might be a little too big. 

[GhostRoadieBL]

I'd go for a 20in travel tablet or a panel display if they can remove the bezels. Streamers would probably be all over a modular display you could clip together in random configurations instead of needing arms for every monitor.

Signal pass through with usb-c would also be easy so the monitor runs at progressively higher resolutions through a single cable

[PeachGr]

7 hours ago, dizmo said:

We've had OLED displays on phones for I want to say decades at this point. 

 

LG's were worse. 

LG does good TV OLED, Samsung good OLED smartphone screens, that was the thing for years

[suicidalfranco]

Would be nice to see a 20" laptop though

[Doobeedoo]

This is portable monitor or something. Also it could be WRGB too. But whatever. Need to see Samsung release more formats with QD-OLED though.

[Middcore]

6 hours ago, suicidalfranco said:

Would be nice to see a 20" laptop though

 

A 20" laptop would functionally be non-portable. Like it would literally not even fit in the vast majority of backpacks and bags, which have sleeves designed to accommodate a 17" at most. 

[porina]

5 hours ago, Middcore said:

A 20" laptop would functionally be non-portable. Like it would literally not even fit in the vast majority of backpacks and bags, which have sleeves designed to accommodate a 17" at most. 

I think 20" laptop could make a great desktop replacement for those who travel, especially if used under sustained heavy loads. Decent size keyboard and better cooling. The lack of bags for it could be chicken and egg. Who'd make a 20" laptop bag if there is no 20" laptop?

[suicidalfranco]

On 8/14/2022 at 4:21 PM, Middcore said:

 

A 20" laptop would functionally be non-portable. Like it would literally not even fit in the vast majority of backpacks and bags, which have sleeves designed to accommodate a 17" at most. 

Would still buy

[pas008]

19 hours ago, porina said:

I think 20" laptop could make a great desktop replacement for those who travel, especially if used under sustained heavy loads. Decent size keyboard and better cooling. The lack of bags for it could be chicken and egg. Who'd make a 20" laptop bag if there is no 20" laptop?

dont lg have rollable panels

that would be nice on laptop

[Vishera]

22 hours ago, porina said:

I think 20" laptop could make a great desktop replacement for those who travel, especially if used under sustained heavy loads. Decent size keyboard and better cooling. The lack of bags for it could be chicken and egg. Who'd make a 20" laptop bag if there is no 20" laptop?

Yep,There is definitely a market for it.

As for the bug i remember that MSI for example made bags for their laptops,

I don't know if it's still the case now days but it's something that laptop manufacturers can definitely do.

[Senzelian]

yawn... wake me up once this becomes available:

38", 21:9, 3840 x 1600, OLED, Curved, <2mm bezels, 165Hz+, GSync, FreeSync, HDR1000

 

I'll take 3.