{"id":125146,"date":"2026-08-19T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/125146\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:54:11","slug":"oled-screens-are-finally-defeating-the-one-thing-holding-them-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/125146\/","title":{"rendered":"OLED Screens Are Finally Defeating the One Thing Holding Them Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

The prettiest OLED displays seem to be getting less expensive every year, and it\u2019s looking like we may finally see it take the crown from LED as the \u201ccheap\u201d screen option. In conjunction with \u201cInkjet Printed\u201d OLED panels<\/a>, screenmaker LG claims it has new tech that doesn\u2019t just make the contrast-filled screens easier and cheaper to make; they\u2019re also straight-up better.<\/p>\n

LG calls this tech \u201cFLiPP,\u201d an acronym for \u201cFMM-less Innovative Pixel Patterning.\u201d Organic light-emitting diode screens make use of one or more layers of self-emissive red, green, and blue lights without the need for a backlight. This allows for near-infinite contrast and those \u201cinky\u201d blacks you\u2019ve seen people rave about for the last few years. But making these organic diodes work on a substrate is a complex and laborious process.<\/p>\n

Companies like LG and Samsung have long relied on a so-called \u201cfine metal mask\u201d (FMM) that essentially acts as a stencil for placing each individual organic substrate. This process is technical, expensive, and extremely wasteful, since you lose much of the organic material during the manufacturing process. It requires an FMM for all these different panel sizes, which is why you find many companies only offering the same scale of screen for both TVs and monitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of FLiPP\u2019s greatest advantages is that it is free from panel size and resolution constraints,\u201d the company wrote in its press release. \u201cIn theory, it can be used to produce displays ranging from 1 inch to 100 inches and can be applied not only to conventional panels but also to VR and AR displays.\u201d<\/p>\n

LG says FLiPP uses UV light to evaporate organic materials along the whole substrate with a high level of precision. That supposedly means the pixel patterning process is even more precise than with an FMM. The screenmaker says this allows for screens that are 1.6X brighter with 13% less power consumption. LG further promises these next-gen OLED displays will last more than twice as long as previous displays.<\/p>\n

TCL CSOT has promised similar \u201cInkjet Printing\u201d technology for developing its own cheaper OLEDs, though the company has not offered the same kind of technical walkthrough that LG has. The more important thing for consumers is the promise of cheaper, longer-lasting OLED screens. A typical LED screen is meant to last more years than OLED, but this new technology may finally grant these contrast-filled displays a lifespan of more than 8 to 16 years.<\/p>\n

\"(photo)LG claims FLiPP can increase aspect ratios, brightness, and screen longevity. \u00a9 LG <\/p>\n

LG is showcasing this new display-making tech for the first time at the International Meeting on Information Display 2026 conference in Busan, South Korea. We shouldn\u2019t expect every new OLED to make use of this technology, though we\u2019ve already seen companies like MSI and Lenovo revealing monitors and laptops sporting the inkjet-printed screens. We expect to see even more of these in the near future.<\/p>\n

The main benefit to all this talk is cost. OLED is still considered an expensive option, but it doesn\u2019t need to be. Alienware recently debuted a $350 QD-OLED gaming monitor<\/a> with limited brightness specs, but we may see even cheaper displays soon. Everything else is getting more expensive, so it\u2019s nice to see at least one technology becoming more affordable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prettiest OLED displays seem to be getting less expensive every year, and it\u2019s looking like we may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[315,314,15792,359,9894,6450],"class_list":["post-125146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lg","tag-lg","tag-lg-group","tag-monitors","tag-oled","tag-tcl","tag-tvs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}