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I'm somewhat disappointed in the lack of progress on OLEDs the last few years. For TVs, LG is the only company that actually produces panels, every single OLED TV uses their panels. And even though there are new models every year, all OLED TVs of the last few years use the same old panel.

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That is not true at all. While LG is the only OLED TV panel manufacture on the market, they have been making progress every year in their WOLED panel. And many more technical innovations in the pipeline. And older panel drop in price as they improve yield, that is why you start seeing affordable OLED. They differ in colour accuracy, refresh rate, QA, max brightness etc. To say they are the same panel every year give very little credit to LG's WOLED engineering.

My information is from various reviews, and the image quality has stayed pretty much the same the last three years according to that. The image processing has changed, but the panels seem to be pretty much the same within the differences you get per-panel anyway.

Max brightness progress is marginal at best for the past 4-5 years.

Because that is at the expense of the panel's longevity that most people not prefer as a trade offs?

I’ve never looked at my C9 and thought “I wish it was brighter”. Does seem to bother some people though so YMMV.

That same old panel is still the best display you can buy.

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