Micro-LED is an amazing technology. But it’s going to remain amazingly expensive for several more years
Do you remember when micro-LED was the future of TV and would leave the best OLED TVs in the dust, with its superior brightness and equally good black tones? Unfortunately it seems that that future is still some years away. A new report says that both LG and Samsung are pulling back on their investment in the technology, because it’s proving much more difficult to manufacture than anticipated.
The news is significant because the two firms are arguably the biggest champions of micro-LED. LG’s first micro-LED TV and Samsung’s The Wall absolutely wowed six years ago, and in addition to being the biggest manufacturer of micro-LED TVs today, Samsung has been coming up with interesting ideas such as transparent micro-LED displays, which it showed off at CES 2024. But years after we first saw those beautiful pixels, micro-LED has the same problems that it had back then: it’s too big, and it’s too expensive.What’s the problem with micro-LED TVs?
Manufacturers still think micro-LED is the future.
