Samsung Announces Next-Gen MicroLid 110-inch 4K TV with Picture Quality

Over the past few years, Samsung has shown Diva using its future, modular TVs using microELD technology (and selling it to very wealthy people). MicroLade shares many of the best features of OLED – without the most associated flaws – and is widely seen as the next big upgrade leap for performance in our lives. Now, Samsung is taking the microELD and putting it into a more traditional TV form factor. Today the company announced the 110-inch MicroLade TV, which goes to Presley in Korea today and will launch globally in the first quarter of 2021.

Probably the first question that comes to mind is, no, Samsung is not announcing the price for this gigantic TV using the latest picture technology. But you can expect that the company’s other 4K (or even 8K) self-emitting microlade will cost more than that set in mind. You don’t really notice any bezels or borders in these images; The screen-to-body ratio of this TV is 99.9999 percent, but Samsung still manages to create an “embedded Majestic sound system” that claims to deliver “5.1 channel sound without any external speakers.”

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Here’s what Samsung has to say about picture quality:

The 110-inch MicroELD uses a micrometer-sized LED light to remove the backlight and color filters used in traditional displays. Instead, it self-illuminates – producing light and color from its own pixel structures. It expresses 100 percent of the DCI and Adobe RGB color gamut, and accurately delivers wide color gamut images taken with a high-color DSLR camera. This results in stunning, lifetime colors and 4K resolution of the display with accurate brightness and 8 million pixels.

Since all of those LEDs are self-illuminated, you get the perfect black and fantastic contrast that comes with defining OLEDs. But crucially, micro LEDs are inorganic and therefore should have better long-term durability. There should be no danger of burning, which is already seen on modern OLED TVs. Samsung estimates a lifetime of about 100,000 hours – or “up to a decade.” In the case of The Wall, it is placed in micro LED modular panels that can be attached to make a TV of any size – if you’ve got to start paying for it. Here is an example of a vault that was set up in a luxury home in London. But a 110-inch TV is a more traditional form factor.

The 110-inch MicroLade includes HDMI 2.1 and supports everything that is possible (like 120 Hz 4K gaming), I asked Samsung. But no answer was available at the time of the press. A neat software trick is the ability to simultaneously view four sources of content (even from different HDMI inputs) with the TV’s multi-view feature.

Samsung says production of the 110-inch MicroLade TV was not possible until recent innovations, and the company credits “a new manufacturing process made from its semiconductor business” to help make it possible. Small microlade TVs are already on the roadmap, so while the price of this item is sure to be out of reach for many, there will one day be models that are not cost-restrictive.

That’s still the way out, and Samsung expects to take on a new lineup of more mainstream (and still nice looking) consumer QLED 4K and 8K TVs next month during Virtual CES 2021.