New Samsung Micro LED Wall

[w.mayer]

Samsung show at CES 2019 a new micro LED Panel where they build a only 75” TV from it see this link down.

Please watch the video inside!
There they talk about the much improved gabs between the panels compare to last year’s product.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/06/samsung-wall-window-4k-ces/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=internal&utm_source=dl

Funny is that the pixels are even smaller compare to last year’s product but the biggest surprise will be likely the price!

This Germany Webpage that was normally very reliable say that there was talking that this 75” cost below 10.000$
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Samsung-setzt-weiter-auf-Mikro-LEDs-und-zeigt-ein-Display-aus-8-Millionen-LEDs-4266328.html

A 75” is about good 1,5 square meter area.
Count this is a square meter price of only 6300$ !!!

So my 7 meter 2.35:1 screen (7,2 x 3 meters) will be cost less than 140.000$!
This is still expensive but far far cheaper than today’s LED Walls.

No wonder Samsung say that this product is nothing for this year but it is interesting that Samsung likely can offer this new advanced LED Wall technology
for a price in the near future that makes it very competitive to bright high end projectors.

[MrPixels]

Thanks for catching this. This technology is advancing fast. They are finally allowing different aspect ratios. If you look close you can still see the panel separation but as mentioned this is much improved over the previous generation.

[donaldk]

Samsung Unveils Future of Displays with Groundbreaking Modular Micro LED Technology at CES
Samsung Newsroom (with U.S. Specific News Release) 01.06.19

8K, CES, CES2019, DISPLAY, FIRST LOOK, MICROLED TV, QLED TV

Samsung Reveals New Micro LED Sizes, Shapes and Configurations that Push the Limits of Traditional TV Displays at First Look Event
LAS VEGAS, NV – JANUARY 6, 2019 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today introduced its latest innovations in modular MicroLED display technology during its annual First Look CES event at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The revolutionary new Micro LED technology designs featured at the event included: a new 75” display, a 219” The Wall as well as other various groundbreaking sizes, shapes and configurations for a next-generation modular Micro LED display – a 2019 CES Best of Innovation Award winner.



“For decades, Samsung has led the way in next-generation display innovation,” said Jonghee Han, President of Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. “Our Micro LED technology is at the forefront of the next screen revolution with intelligent, customizable displays that excel in every performance category. Samsung Micro LED has no boundaries, only endless possibilities.”                             

https://img.us.news.samsung.com/us/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/06224417/Samsung-Home-Entertainment-CES_20191.mp4

Featuring self-emissive technology and modular capabilities, Samsung’s Micro LED displays deliver unparalleled picture quality, versatility and design. These transformative TV displays are made up of individual modules of self-emissive Micro LEDs, featuring millions of inorganic red, green and blue microscopic LED chips that emit their own light to produce brilliant colors on screen – delivering unmatched picture quality that surpasses any display technology currently available on the market.

At last year’s CES, Samsung introduced Micro LED by unveiling The Wall, the critically acclaimed, award-winning 146” Micro LED display. Due to the technical advancements in the ultra-fine pitch semiconductor packaging processthat narrow the gap between the microscopic LED chips, Samsung has been able to create a stunning 4K Micro LED display in a smaller, more home-friendly 75” form factor.



Thanks to the modular nature of Micro LED, this technology offers flexibility in screen size that allows users to customize it to fit any room or space. By adding Micro LED modules, users can expand their display to any size they desire. The modular functionality of Micro LED will allow users in the future to create the ultimate display evenat irregular 9×3, 1×7 or 5×1 screen sizesthat suits their spatial, aesthetic and functional needs.

Samsung’s Micro LED technology also optimizes the content no matter the size and shape of the screen. Even when adding more modules, Samsung Micro LED displays can scale to increase the resolution — all while keeping the pixel density constant. Additionally, Micro LED can support everything from the standard 16:9 content, to 21:9 widescreen films, to unconventional aspect ratios like 32:9, or even 1:1 – without having to make any compromises in its picture quality.

Finally, because Micro LED displays are bezel-free, there are no borders between modules – even when you add more. The result is a seamless, stunning infinity pool effect that allows the display to elegantly blend into any living environment. The possibilities for eye-catching designs are enhanced by new Ambient Mode features.

For more detail on Samsung’s 2019 QLED 8K and MicroLED lines, please visit booth #15006 in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES 2019 (January 8-11, 2019).

[donaldk]

LED size is one-fifteenth of the 146" The Wall, 5 µm. So this should end the criticism that the Samsung is not MicroLED, people even resorting to calling its Mini-LED, a term reserved for small LED high LED count backlight for LCD or even Quantum Dot displays.

See:

https://youtu.be/jSV6aS_zicY?t=67

Picture still noisy, and Samsung is said to have issues with addresing the image 'pixel genau', pixel accurate. Also module tot module transitions are still visible when one gets closer than 2-3 meters. Also this German source reports there is an issue in the prototype with an inability to recognise the individual panels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH4ypkGjRlk

Fabio hat sich für uns das Modell auch aus der Nähe angesehen und kann ein „bombastisches Bild“ bestätigen. Aus 2-3 Meter Entfernung gibt es subjektiv nichts zu beanstanden. Das „Aber“ stellt sich ein, sobald man näher an das Display herantritt. Übergänge zwischen den Modulen sind dann leider doch noch sichtbar und der Prototyp hatte auch noch mit Bildrauschen zu kämpfen. Samsung arbeitet aber mich Hochdruck daran, diese „Fehler“ auszumerzen und bis spätestens 2020 ein Endkunden-Produkt auf den Markt zu bringen.<\q>

Claiming it is to be commercialised into a consumer product before the end of 2020.

[donaldk]

The moving panels, reminiscent of the first Samsung demo at CES three years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPAkhk3jEf8

A closer look of the 219 Inch Wall, still 4K and consideraby smaller LEDs, so much greater black surface area.

At 1.30 minutes when can start to see squigly lines at the bottom of right hand top module. And from 1 minute 50 seconds one can see the panels that make up a module, as well as the module edges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIVaK2zXv0w

And the 75" version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-UpeoHzwk

[donaldk]

The 219" Wall has different edge properties than the new 75" prototype, the edges on the large one disappear around 6 feet (1.83M), whereas the edges remain visible at larger distance with certain content, and under certain angles, according to the DT Report above. So does this mean the 219" Wall uses the older larger LEDs with a bit more epoxy to mount the LEDs a bit wider apart,and Samsung has this product ready?

Has Samsung actually shipped the Wall Comercial? If so how many?

[donaldk]

John Archer at Forbes reports there's also an 84" version.

"In fact, it seems that a 75-inch micro LED screen is set to go on sale at some point in 2019." Targeted at 'affluencers'.

[Art Sonneborn]

The question still for me:

Are the seams  invisible at 10' ?

Are the panels the same with light and color such that this isn't a distraction ?

For me saying they can't be seen most of the time won't cut it.

Art

[donaldk]

See the DT video on the 219" I posted above. The host says yes on 'The Wall' and No(t yet) on the 75" MicroLED.

So if that's fixed all one needs is a controller that syncs the 4 4K signals from an 8K signal, and one has an 150" 8K, at reportedly sub 100K.

[DCI forum]

Samsung put out a marketing email this morning. Promoting The Wall and MicroLED at CES. With a get a quote button at the top. Guess what, The Wall is not a product that may be selected for information. Just the regular LEDs.

[donaldk]

We all missed this one: "Samsung to offer 75-inch micro LED TV with chips from PlayNitride (Sep 10)", behind the DigiTimes paywall.

The PlayNitride demo at SID 2018 this summer. Samsung was reported to be one of the customers that looking into the sample panels. 15-20 received samples 5-6 reportedly were working on developing displays based on these panels. Samsung reportedly would take 30% stake in PlayNitride.

Note the resolution of the small section on the right being equivalent to 8K at 76" diagonal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPpmvq1J5O8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ElKCCLAwno

Samsung is looking to extends its share in PlayNitride. It will also continue to source MicroLEDs from Sanan, that supplied the LEDs for the 146" The Wall, for its new 219" The Wall. They told DigiTimes.

"Industry observers believe that the micro LEDs that Samsung uses come in 30- by 50-micron in size" according to Digitimes.

[w.mayer]

The question still for me:

Are the seams  invisible at 10' ?

Are the panels the same with light and color such that this isn't a distraction ?

For me saying they can't be seen most of the time won't cut it.

Art

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I think that just the new 75" micro led tv had the new enhanced gab technology that made it invisible in 60 to 70" distance.
I have hear this from some guy that saw this at CES already and today another friend from me will visit Samsung at CES and I told him to look close about the gabs.

He will tell me what he will see and I report here about it.

Micro LED Walls are a so new technology that I am sure "gabs" will be soon a no issue.
Reflection, Noise, Color at low IRE, and other things will become important and as this new advanced micro LED that Samsung show at CES 2019 will be not out soon I bet we can see a big development in this display technology.

[w.mayer]

Got a call from the man at the CES Shot at Samsung booth but surprising he can not see the 75" micro led anymore!
Looks like it was just shown yesterday but not for the public

[donaldk]

There was an evening pre-view event, followed by the press conference on Monday. Are all the moving modules gone as well? The white board wall supporting the 75" looked pretty shoddy. More seams than the worst LED Wall. The temporary nature would explain this. Pity though, perhaps as one of Germany's largest influencers you'll get to see it soon as German reporters expect to receive more info during an upcoming Road Show.

Perhaps Peter can ask if Samsung is going to fly in the good stuff from Vegas to Amsterdan, like it did last year?

Let's see if this Latin reporter has got anything to say about it as he got to pixelpeep.



Uhm bezel=LCD?

Wolfgang, Art the answer is in this picture, perhaps enhanced visibilty by the image's compression, but under this angle, and with the light blue content I can see the squares' pattern in the left-hand display.



Full size link.

[w.mayer]

I think that Samsung with the introduction of the 75“ Micro LED TVs only want to show that they are still working on this technology and that we haven’t reached the end yet.

It really wasn’t about a finished product or a market introduction date, rather it was to show potential customers we are still working on this technology, we believe in the success of this technology, and we are making progress.

That is probably why the prices to be found on German web sites are probably not to be taken realistically.
How should a Micro LED smaller by a factor of 4 “which certainly is a lot more expensive to manufacture“ as the current LED technology, be so much cheaper as the current micro LED technology which is much cheaper to make? Impossible!

No. No. The entire thing was a technology demonstration; no more, no less.
It is indeed interesting, the progress of this still young technology, but to allow oneself to be deceived by selected content which was specially technically made so that the pictures have a spectacular effect during a trade show is another.

Here they don’t show freeze frames with full white or blue sky where one could observe panels and grooves, rather here one is shown constantly moving colored videos whereby the eye doesn’t have a chance to see the panels, the seams, or reflections due to the movement of the content as would be the case with 100% black and white still images.