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Re: TedJ post# 62279

Thursday, 12/21/2017 2:52:55 PM

Thursday, December 21, 2017 2:52:55 PM

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LG only started making small form factor OLED fab plants after getting $2 billion from Apple to make iPhone screens. LG has never had much if any OLED development except for large screen TV's before that. Their own phones have had LCD's on them because until recently all small oleds came from Samsung.
Samsung has been and remains the king of small oleds. Up until the past year the vast majority of Universal Display's income came from Samsung. Samsung and LG tried different methods of fabricating large form oleds. Samsung's method proved very inefficient so they gave up on the big screen oleds, but they continue to pour billions into small oled fab plants. LG's method for large screen oleds proved workable, and now they make them for themselves, Panasonic, Sony and supposedly a couple of Chinese companies. I doubt you will see any oled tvs smaller than 55" for at least a couple years as there's just no way to make it economically feasible. Check the prices of smaller tv's, you can find 32" televisions cheaper than the price Apple pays Samsung for oled iphone screens. There's just too limited a market for premium smaller screened televisions to make an oled fiscally feasible. The same thing probably holds true for qdot tv's, i doubt we see any until we get to the big screens.

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