Samsung Display has confirmed it’s going to be showing a newly developed 77-inch variant of its QD-OLED panel technology at CES 2023. Whether Samsung Electronics will follow suit with an announcement a couple of 77-inch QD-OLED TV stays to be seen for now, but I expect to know more inside within the early days of the show.
It was at CES 2022 that we got our first glimpse of Samsung Display’s QD-OLED panel technology. On the time, it struck me as mightily impressive — the most effective picture quality I’d ever seen.
Since that point, QD-OLED panels have been released as consumer products via Samsung Electronics’ S95B TV, the Sony A95K TV, and two Dell Alienware monitors. Each of those products was hailed as best-in-class, each by Digital Trends’ reviewers and people across the media landscape. With perfect black levels and better color brightness than LG’s WOLED technology, QD-OLED screens are indeed a treat for the eyes.
Still, amongst consumers, complaints about limited screen-size options became a typical refrain. Many TV enthusiasts claim to have held off on investing in the brand new TV type until it was available in a bigger size. Now, it appears a 77-inch QD-OLED TV could also be on the best way. But that’s not a foregone conclusion.
While Samsung Display assured me at CES 2022 that its latest QD-OLED panel would seem in a consumer TV that yr, they might not guarantee that TV can be made by Samsung Electronics. Granted, a number of weeks later, the formal announcement of the S95B TV’s existence was made, but my understanding is that there was some internal discussion over if/when that TV could be delivered to market.
In fact, if Samsung Electronics hadn’t made a TV out of it, Sony would have. And that is probably going the case here with the brand new 77-inch size option.
[5:57 PM] Caleb Denison
In the identical press release, Samsung Display also mentioned a 49-inch Ultrawide QD-OLED panel that’s clearly destined to be a pc monitor, and one likely made by Dell’s Alienware division. Other product mentions include a latest flexible hybrid QD-OLED display, a slideable display, and a digital cockpit manufactured from QD-OLED panels. We’ll make sure you bring you up near all of those products as we proceed our CES 2023 coverage.
It might be hours, days, or weeks until now we have a firm confirmation, but all signs point to a 77-inch QD-OLED TV hitting the market in 2023.
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