Sony's new display technology beats OLED performance
What's the story
Sony has unveiled a groundbreaking display system, dubbed "New RGB LED," promising superior color reproduction than traditional LED and OLED screens.
The tech enables individual control of the three primary colors in LEDs - red, green, and blue.
This independent light emission leads to higher color purity or trueness, allowing images to cover 99% of the DCI-P3 color space and around 90% of ITU-R BT.2020 television standard.
Backlight control
Sony's advanced backlight control technology
Sony's new display system also includes the company's "advanced backlight control technology."
This would enable future TVs to reproduce certain hues and gradations accurately.
For example, in a scene depicting bright autumn foliage with different shades of red, yellow, and orange, Sony's tech would adjust screen luminance to match color gradation for more detail.
This is better than regular high-brightness TVs that miss subtle gradations or nuanced hues.
Signal processing
Fast signal processing and wide viewing angle
The New RGB LED display system features fast signal processing with a high bitrate of 96 bits. This would ensure the deep blacks and brilliant whites are expressed simultaneously, while also offering a wide viewing angle.
Sony says its tech can render scenes without visual errors like white clipping or black crushing.
The company is working with industry partners like MediaTek to mass produce this tech later this year.
Technology comparison
RGB LED technology surpasses Mini LED tech as well
Sony's new display technology employs individual RGB LEDs for backlighting, a major upgrade over current Mini LED sets.
Instead of deploying tiny blue LEDs behind the panel like Mini LED TVs, Sony's method employs red, green, and blue LEDs in every backlight zone.
This way, you get finer control over color without sacrificing brightness, hitting a level of 4,000cd/m2, equal to the company's professional reference monitors.
The enhanced gradation control also provides much wider viewing angles than Mini LED TVs.