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Value Electronics hosted their annual TV shootout, checking several high-end TVs to see which model provides the best images.

There were six TVs tested in the 4K TV category, two QD-OLEDs, one OLED, and three mini-LED LCDs. The best TV was Sony's A95L QD-OLED TV. The runner-ups were Samsung's S95C (another QD-OLED TV) and LG's G3 OLED (with an LGD WOLED Panel).

Quantum Dots developer Nanosys announced a milestone in QD technology commercialization - the 1,000th unique display product that utilizes its QD materials. Nanosys says that it has shipped over 140 tons of QD materials and it holds more than 800 unique patents.

Nanosys offers QD solutions for LCDs, OLEDs, microLEDs and QD-EL displays (which it calls nanoLEDs). The company’s tier-one customer base includes all top-10 global television brands and four of the top-five IT brands, including Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL, Hisense, Acer, ASUS, and Phillips.

US-based A/V retailer Value Electronics conducted its latest annual TV shootout. In the 4K category, the company tested 5 TVs, including an OLED TV, two miniLED QD LCDs and the two QD-OLED TVs on the market.

The winner of this year's shootout was Sony's A95K QD-OLED, which received the top marks in all categories. The runner up was Samsung's own S95B QD-OLED, which uses the same SDC panel. This is a great testimonial to Samsung's QD-OLED panel performance.

DSCC says that over 500,000 QD-OLED TVs will ship in 2022, offered by both Sony and Samsung. Shipments are expected to grow and reach 1.5 million units in 2026.

The main limitation for QD-OLED TVs will by Samsung's production capacity. In 2023 the company will add 49-inch monitors and 77-inch TV panels, as SDC will start using Multi-cut Mother Glass (MMG) technology.

In early 2022, Sony announced A95K Master XR TV, which is the world's first QD-OLED TV. The TV is not shipping yet (this won't happen until June), but first reviews are in.

DigitalTrends says that the display is bright (the brightest he has seen in a consumer TV) and it offers the most accurate colors he ever saw. The colors are pure and "better than any OLED, and most QLED TVs, too". In fact, the reporter concludes that the Sony A95K offers the best overall picture quality he has seen on a consumer TV, in terms of color, contrast, motion, detail and depth.

Earlier this week Samsung officially launched its QD-OLED displays, with Sony, Dell and Samsung releasing the first products to use these displays.

We also have a first product review, of sorts, a short one from Tom's Guide - which says that this display is the best they have ever seen, with amazing colors and ultra-wide viewing angles.

Samsung Display officially launched its QD-Display panels at CES 2022, that use the company's QD-OLED technology. The company is producing three kinds of panels, 55" and 65" 4K panels for TVs and wide 34" panels for monitors

Samsung Display says that QD-OLED panels offer a superior image quality compared to LG's WOLED panels, mostly because QD-OLED is based on three RGB subpixels while WOLED is based on four WRGB subpixels. SDC says that its architecture enables higher brightness, better color fidelity and improved viewing angles.