LG may not be the only game in town when it comes to OLED TV panels in the coming years, as Sharp has announced that it will spend $516 million to build production lines for such displays. The company happens to run some of the most advanced plants in the world and is a pioneer in panel production, so I presume that everything will go according to plan. Now here is the part where I whine about how there are still no OLED monitors: I just read a comment about how companies are more worried about getting rid of their huge, crappy TN backlog.



…Sharp confirmed it could begin producing OLED TV panels at its Sakai factory in Osaka, Japan, in “coming years.” Currently, only LG Display is producing OLED panels suitable for consumer television production, and it sells some of those to Sony, Panasonic and others for those brands’ 4K OLED TVs, now sold in various markets around the world. Due to high prices and limited availability, OLED’s share of the overall television market remains small. Global OLED TV shipments are expected to pass the 2 million unit mark in 2017, according to market research estimates.

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