Samsung Reveals 15.6-inch 4K OLED Display for Premium Notebooks

Samsung has announced that the “world’s first” 15.6-inch UHD (4K) OLED panel will enter mass production next month, facilitating the creation of a new generation of premium notebooks, offering users the deep blacks associated with OLED screens and the ultrasharp pixels that 4K offers. 

Mass production will start in mid-February and Samsung are already working with “leading manufacturers” to quickly add these new displays to state-of-the-art notebook designs, emphasising that their screens are optimised for gaming, graphic design and video streaming. 

This compact 4K panel sports VESA’s DisplayHDR True Black certification, offering black levels that are 100x lower than VESA’s older DisplayHDR standards, delivering full HDR support with brightness levels that range from 0.0005-600 nits, delivering a staggering 120,000:1 contrast ratio. When it comes to HDR, contrast is more important than peak brightness, which is why Samsung’s DisplayHDR True Black certification is a huge selling point for 15.6-inch OLED screens. 

Samsung also states that their 15.6-inch UHD OLED screens can cover “the complete DCI-P3 colour gamut” and do so while being slimmer and lighter than LCD screens, a factor which will enable thinner and lighter notebooks. Samsung also boasts colour volumes that are 1.7x higher than LCDs of a similar size, improving the clarity of displayed images when the screen is viewed outdoors.