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LG Display to Mass Produce World´s First Gaming OLED Panel With Switchable Refresh Rate and Resolution
SEOUL, Korea (Apr. 23, 2024) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it has developed the first-ever Gaming OLED panel with a switchable refresh rate and resolution. The company has begun mass production of the 31.5-inch panel this month, accelerating its push into the high-end gaming display market with new concept products.
This groundbreaking Gaming OLED panel allows users to freely choose between a high refresh rate (FHD∙480Hz) and a high-resolution mode (UHD∙240Hz) depending on the content.
In high refresh rate mode, users can enjoy games where speed and screen changes are particularly important, such as first-person shooter (FPS) or racing genres. Switching to high-resolution mode offers an exceptionally immersive experience watching movies with rich visual effects or high-definition 4K content. By comparison, conventional panels have a fixed resolution even when the refresh rate is changed, limiting their versatility for multiple applications.
Refresh rate refers to the number of images displayed on a monitor per second, while resolution represents the number of pixels that a screen can show. The higher the refresh rate, the smoother and sharper the images appear even during fast screen transitions, while a higher resolution enables more precise video and image quality.
LG Display’s advanced solution is Dynamic Frequency & Resolution (DFR), its own independently developed new technology. With the arrival of DFR, users can choose which to prioritize between refresh rate and resolution by adjusting the image processing speed. IT has been applied for the first time with LG Display's 31.5-inch Gaming OLED panel.
The company’s Gaming OLED panel is also equipped with other LG Display technologies to enhance its immersive experience. These include META Technology 2.0 based on the company's Micro Lens Array (MLA) innovation, which maximizes the emission of light from organic materials to elevate image quality. Also, Thin Actuator Sound technology, which directly generates sound from the screen without a separate speaker, has been adopted to provide more vivid sound.
LG Display plans to supply its new 31.5-inch Gaming OLED panel to global gaming gear brands, starting with LG Electronics. The company is accelerating its expansion into the high-end gaming display market from this year with a full lineup of Gaming OLED panels spanning 27, 31.5, 34, 39, and 45 inches.
Unlike LCDs, which require backlighting, the company’s Gaming OLED panels are self-emissive, enabling each pixel to produce perfect blacks and lifelike image quality. With an ultra-high refresh rate (480Hz), they also have the fastest response time (0.03ms) of any panel on the market.
Moreover, Gaming OLEDs have less potential to cause eye fatigue than LCD screens even during long gaming sessions, as they emit half the amount of blue light and produce no headache-associated flicker.
"We will create new customer value with OLED's differentiated technologies - such as by offering perfect blacks, fast response times, and ultra-high refresh rates - and strengthen our leadership in the high-end gaming display market," said Won-seok Kang, Vice President and Head of the Large Display Product Planning Division at LG Display.
2024-04-23 -
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LG Display’s OLED TV and Transparent OLED Displays Receive Eco-Friendly Product Certifications in Succession
SEOUL, Korea (Feb. 25, 2024) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that its OLED TV and Transparent OLED displays have received one eco-friendly certification after another from global verification institutions, as the company further reduced the use of plastics while ramping up the use of recycled materials.
Through these latest certifications, OLED’s all-round technological leadership has been recognized for superb eco-friendliness on top of innovative picture quality, as proven by the company’s latest OLED TV panels with new ‘META Technology 2.0’ along with the world’s only Transparent OLEDs.
UL Solutions, a global independent safety science company, has granted its ‘Low Plastic Content’ verification to all of LG Display's OLED TV and Gaming OLED panels. Representing a first for display panels, this verification is only granted to products with plastic contents of less than 5% of a product’s total weight.
When measured internally, LG Display’s 65-inch OLED TV panel’s plastic content rate was found to be approximately 4% of the total weight, representing more than 90% less plastic usage than LCD TV panels of the same size.
Unlike LCD panels, the company's OLEDs do not require a backlight unit to emit light behind the screen, as each pixel in an OLED display emits light on its own. Moreover, OLED panels minimize the use of film sheets, allowing a significant plastic reduction. LG Display has additionally cut plastic usage by replacing major OLED panel parts with recyclable materials, while increasing its recycling rate of parts to 92.7% when disposing of products.
Moreover, the company’s third-generation OLED TV panels with advanced 'META Technology 2.0' maximize light emission from organic light-emitting components, resulting in approximately 22% higher energy efficiency than conventional OLEDs of the same brightness, thus reducing power consumption.
Meanwhile, LG Display's Transparent OLED, mass-produced only by LG Display in the world, obtained the Eco-Product Certification Mark from SGS, a Swiss-based global leader in inspection, verification, testing, and certification.
This certification is only granted to products that comply with global environmental regulations and meet SGS's eco-friendly evaluation criteria spanning across the entire product life cycle, from production to
consumer use to disposal. This marks the first eco-friendly certification for Transparent OLED and is an achievement that will help shape the industry’s environmental standards for next-generation displays.
LG Display’s Transparent OLED panel received high scores in the resource efficiency, energy efficiency, and minimal use of harmful substances categories, with all its components comprising up to 23% recycled materials, while also adhering to the EU’s REACH regulations on chemical substance management by refraining from using any of over 200 types of high-risk substances.
Since 2021, LG Display's efforts to develop eco-friendly products has seen it implement a life cycle evaluation (LCA) technique that comprehensively assesses all environmental impacts that may occur in the product life cycle. Through this approach, the company has achieved reduction in material and component usage, minimized greenhouse gas emissions and, energy consumption during manufacturing, and waste reduction in disposal stages, on top of the development of highly energy-efficient products.
Furthermore, the company has established a roadmap for developing mid- to long-term energy-saving products to enable consumers to further reduce power consumption, while also continuously developing low-carbon OLED technology processes and component reduction techniques.
“We are committed to proactively advancing environmental-friendly OLED development in response to ESG trends, while simultaneously actively promoting the technological excellence of LG Display's OLED panels, which not only offer outstanding picture quality but also demonstrate a focus on environmental,” said Min-kyu Jin, Head of the Large Display Promotion Division at LG Display.
2024-02-25 -
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LG Display’s Automotive OLED Displays Receive ‘Product Carbon Footprint’ Certification
SEOUL, Korea (Jan. 25, 2024) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that its automotive OLED displays have become the first to receive the ‘Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)’ certification for automotive OLED displays from TÜV Rheinland, a leading global independent testing, inspection and certification body.
This certification has been granted to two models (Auto Display Module – Base Model) for complying with the International Standard for Carbon Emission Measurement (ISO 14067:2018) and undergoing TÜV Rheinland’s critical evaluation of carbon emissions generated from design to production and disposal.
By incorporating LG Display’s independently developed ‘Light Control Film Integration Technology,’ the film enhances visibility by controlling the direction of light within the panel, which also reduces its carbon emissions by up to 18% compared to previous standards. Added benefits of this technology include production simplification, reduced weight, and enhanced energy efficiency compared to conventional panels that use external films.
LG Display’s Light Control Film Integration Technology is being applied to the company’s automotive display products such as P-OLED and Advanced Thin OLED (ATO). P-OLED utilizes a flexible plastic substrate to achieve a slim, lightweight, and flexible panel that consumes 60% less power and is 80% lighter than most LCD displays. Meanwhile, ATO aims to expand the automotive OLED market with its competitive price point by replacing P-OLED’s plastic substrate with a glass substrate.
LG Display’s automotive displays incorporate the company’s pioneering Tandem OLED, a groundbreaking two-stack OLED technology that adds an extra organic emitting layer for brighter screens, optimal stability, and longer lifespans compared to single-layer OLEDs. The company’s second-generation Tandem OLED, which has been in production since last year, features higher brightness and enhanced durability while reducing power consumption by 40%.
In alignment with the world’s growing preference for eco-friendly automotive components, LG Display is actively developing automotive display technologies and products that minimize their environmental impact.
This latest certification comes after the company’s automotive OLED and LTPS LCD displays obtained the Eco-Product Certification Mark from SGS, a global inspection and certification organization, for minimizing the use of hazardous substances and realizing greater energy efficiency.
"By making our differentiated technologies, such as Tandem OLED and SPM (Switchable Privacy Mode), more environmentally friendly, we are further cementing our position as the global leader of automotive displays,” said Keuk-sang Kwon, Vice President and Head of Auto Product Development Division at LG Display.
2024-01-25