
QLED technology is said to combine the strengths of LED and OLED, featuring self-illuminating technology like OLED and quantum dots. Samsung believes it can’t overcome OLED’s burn-in and cost challenges.
“Samsung Electronics will skip commercializing OLED for TVs and go straight to QLED technology, perhaps as soon as 2009. Its strategy is to continue to develop its quantum-dot TVs, which are its current major products, and prepare to commercialize QLED technologies during this time.”