TCL is Not Putting Out a QD-OLED TV This Year After All  

QD-OLED is the latest innovation successful high-end TV, with Samsung Display having developed a exertion that’s said to harvester the champion aspects of OLED and QLED. The first-ever QD-OLED TV introduced was the Samsung S95B, which was unveiled astatine CES a twelvemonth ago, on with Sony’s A95K OLED, which besides utilized a QD-OLED sheet from Samsung Display. The Samsung mentation outsold the Sony one erstwhile they some reached the market.  

At CES past week, Samsung brought retired its successor, the S95C, portion besides adding a 77-inch size.  

Going into CES, it appeared that different brands would beryllium introducing QD-OLED TVs arsenic portion of their 2023 lineups. TCL had announced successful their pre-show property merchandise that they would person exemplary featuring that technology.  

However, as reported by Flat Panels HD, TCL has backtracked connected that announcement.  

“A enactment successful the TCL CES 2023 property merchandise confirming plans to motorboat the brand’s archetypal QD-OLED tv this twelvemonth was incorrectly included. TCL is focused connected its award-winning mini-LED exertion successful 2023 — including the precocious announced TCL QM8 98-inch TV”, the connection from the institution to that tract said.  

The tract besides noted that Samsung, Hisense and TCL were the archetypal members successful 2017 of the QLED Alliance, which pushed QLED exertion arsenic an alternate to OLED. Samsung and Hisense person some since released OLED TV products.  

It’s not precisely wide what happened here, whether it was a woody that fell apart, oregon a last-minute alteration successful strategy.  

“It’s interesting, though, that TCL would namecheck QD-OLED tech specifically if it has zero plans to participate the OLED country astatine this time. It’s tenable to fishy that TCL plans to merchandise an OLED TV yet but tin nary longer perpetrate to 1 coming retired this twelvemonth for immoderate reason,” Ars Technica said successful its story.