TCL demos bleeding-edge screens at Show Week, together with 57- and 65-inch 8K high-refresh price displays

The SID Show Week 2023 exhibit from TCL CSOT included six shows that attempt to push the envelope of display screen know-how in several areas. Amongst them are two large 8K high-refresh-rate displays, two high-end VR shows, a brand new versatile OLED, and a large automotive panel.

One of many firm’s new screens combines a number of cutting-edge applied sciences: a 65-inch 8K 120Hz foldable OLED show. Primarily based on indium gallium zinc oxide thin-film transistors and ink-jet printing know-how, the corporate claims it is the business’s largest foldable OLED. The super-thin display screen can push 33 million pixels per body, bends to underneath R25mm, and has a 100,000-bend lifetime.

One other versatile OLED the corporate showcased is the primary ultra-narrow display screen in that class and the primary low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) ultra-narrow versatile AMOLED. The cell gadget show includes a four-sided 0.9mm array panel body, a four-sided 1.6mm module body, a 0.3mm O-cut array border, and a 0.36mm module border. The high-touch-report-rate display screen helps variable refresh charges between 1H and 240Hz for environment friendly energy consumption, 1,920Hz PWM dimming know-how, and a C7 natural gentle emitter for extra real looking colours.

TCL’s different beast-size 8K show is a 57-inch 240Hz curved ultrawide. Bending to 1,000R, the monitor affords customers a 32:9 side ratio and a 7,680 x 2,160 display screen decision. Technically this makes solely the horizontal decision 8K, with the general pixel rely being half that of true 8K.

The esports-ready providing intently resembles the Odyssey Neo G9, which Samsung unveiled in January. That monitor can also be 57 inches, 8K, 32:9, and 240Hz with the identical pixel decision as TCL’s competitor. Neither panel has a confirmed worth, however Samsung’s is supposed to succeed the $2,500 49-inch variant, so anticipate to pay a minimum of that a lot.

Moreover, the corporate demonstrated two high-end VR shows. Each attempt to eradicate the screen-door impact with a 1,512 pixel-per-inch show density, which TCL says is the world’s highest for any mass-produced gadget. One is a Mini LED with an RGB 2,280 x 2,280 decision (presumably per eye, however TCL would not specify) supporting 120Hz and a 100,000:1 distinction ratio. The opposite is an LTPO realRGB LCD with 4K decision for each eyes (presumably mixed).

A 47.5-inch ultrawide curved pillar-to-pillar show for car dashboards additionally joined TCL’s exhibit. The complete 1.4m (55-inch) size of the 4,200R 8K display screen is touch-sensing, enabling simultaneous operation by the motive force and co-driver. A Mini LED backlight supplies over 3,000 native dimming zones.