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The alphabet soup of TV technology continues to grow, withSamsungturning greater attention to QD-EL.
But whatever you call it, it’s quite exciting and Samsung is investing heavily in it.
Some reports are suggesting that QD-EL could be the future of TV, and they might be right.
But I think Samsung is likely to be thinking more about monitors than big TVs for the time being.
And that’s still pretty exciting.
What is QD-EL and why are people excited about it?
At the moment there are two rival TV technologies: backlit LED TVs, andOLEDTVs.
The former are generally brighter but the latter have better darkness and contrast because OLEDs aren’t backlit.
QD-EL promises to give you the best of both.
Like OLED it’s self-emissive, so there’s no backlight.
Presumably rivals face similar challenges too.
So my money’s on this tech moving into monitors first, rather than larger TV screens.
There are two reasons why I think that.
And the second is that big displays are a big risk when you’re talking new technologies.
