While 2023 was extra evolution than revolution for TVs, a number of standout improvements this yr set the stage for giant competitors amongst TVs in 2024.
In 2022, Samsung Display’s QD-OLED show expertise made headlines because the most innovative show expertise since OLED was launched to client TVs by LG some 10 years prior. In a remarkably well timed effort to clap again at Samsung, LG Display unleashed the most significant replace to its OLED show expertise in 10 years, and this yr, that tech earns our prime award for the most innovative TV tech of 2023.
You is likely to be stunned to study, nonetheless, that the TV that makes use of that innovative TV tech didn’t earn our Most Innovative TV award for 2023. Instead, it was a wholly completely different variety of TV, additionally made by LG. Let’s dive in.
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Winner: LG MLA OLED panel expertise
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When Samsung made waves with the QD-OLED expertise in its S95B OLED TV, LG instantly shot again with MLA OLED expertise, making it appear to be the tech had been put aside for simply such an event. Whatever the true inside baseball story could also be, we had been delighted to see it unleashed this yr.
Practically talking, MLA — or, Micro Lens Array — expertise makes LG’s OLED panels considerably brighter than they’ve been prior to now. This is notable not solely as a result of one of the few complaints about OLED TVs and displays was that they couldn’t get as vivid as QLED TVs, however as a result of Samsung Display’s QD-OLED expertise was posting some unprecedented brightness numbers.
LG achieved this enhance in brightness in a very attention-grabbing approach. Rather than tweaking natural compounds, juicing up electrical energy, or including intelligent new heat-dissipation expertise, LG Display solved its brightness limitations by homing in on effectivity.
In impact, MLA is a skinny sheet of materials upon which tens of millions of tiny convex lenses have been printed. Those lenses seize mild that usually will get scattered inside an OLED panel, and focuses it on the desired vacation spot: your eyeballs.
It might sound like a easy answer, however its implementation is a real feat of engineering. The outcome of MLA, paired with different brightness-boosting efforts made by LG, sees brightness will increase of as much as 70% over conventional W-RGB OLED TVs. In the top, LG’s Gallery Series G3 OLED wound up being the brightest OLED TV I’ve ever examined.
With OLED brightness now of considerably decrease concern than earlier than, LG has made it even more durable for QLED TV makers to assert their TVs are superior. This, naturally, will incite the following salvo within the ongoing TV brightness warfare that’s been raging for a number of years already.
Runner up: LG M-Series
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While MLA OLED panel tech stands out as the most innovative TV tech of 2023, it was sarcastically outshined by an LG TV that didn’t embody it. For our cash, the LG M-Series wi-fi OLED TV struck us because the most innovative TV this yr.
Since MLA expertise continues to be being scaled up, it isn’t obtainable within the 77-inch display screen measurement that LG Electronics opted to make use of when fashioning an OLED TV with wi-fi sign supply. While you continue to should plug LG’s M3 OLED into the wall for energy, that’s the one wire tethering it to something in any respect.
With the LG M3 wi-fi OLED TV, all cable connections are made to a wi-fi transmitter field that LG wryly calls a “zero-connect” field (Samsung has lengthy touted its “One-Connect” field with a single cable connection as an indicator of its TV innovation). While the Zero-Connect field’s wi-fi transmission vary is proscribed to about 30 toes and requires a transparent line of sight for uninterrupted sign supply, it’s nonetheless an enormous leap towards a wi-fi TV future that eliminates the rat’s nest of cables generally related to dwelling leisure programs of the previous.
Honorable point out: Samsung The Frame TV
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Samsung’s second-gen QD-OLED tech managed to search out its approach into two of the very best TVs we examined this yr: the Samsung S95C and the Sony A95K — the latter of which has been topped as the very best TV of the yr on my own, and at a number of trade shootout occasions. However, it’s one of Samsung’s way of life TVs that impressed me most in 2023.
Samsung’s The Frame TV is a QLED TV that’s packaged up in a approach that it already appears to be like extra like framed artwork than a TV, however the 2023 model of The Frame has a brand new matte display screen end that, paired with stage backlighting and shade administration, yields a picture that may be a useless ringer for a chunk of artwork on canvas. The texture is so life like, I simply needed to attain out and contact the display screen the primary time I noticed it. The phantasm is remarkably convincing and makes for a TV that may seamlessly mix in with nearly any decor idea.
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