People are increasingly choosing OLED monitors because of their beautiful display, higher refresh rates and resolutions.
According to a report by analysis firm Trendforce, sales of OLED monitors are going to increase by 181 percent by 2024, representing 1.44 million screens. The number would only increase in the coming years. More and more laptops are also using OLED, and desktops would soon follow.
What is OLED?
Non-OLED monitors use LED backlighting, with each LED light illuminating a certain number of pixels. Therein lies a problem. Perfect black levels exist only with OLED displays.
Illuminated pixels ensure in LED monitors that the black pixels are never completely dark. OLED works with light per pixel. So individual pixels are completely “turned off,” or perfectly black, as needed. This ensures perfect black levels and extreme contrast values.
This is perfect for IT professionals and workers in photo and video editing. In recent years, the refresh rate of OLED laptops has also been increasing, which in turn is of interest to gamers. These changes are gradually being applied to desktop monitors as well. One downside to OLED is that maximum brightness is generally lower than with LED displays.
TrendForce predicts that Samsung would remain the largest OLED vendor with 31 percent market share. LG, Asus and Dell will follow with 19 percent and two times 14 percent, respectively. Asus is expected to invest heavily in OLED, MSI is expected to rise the most in market share.