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Samsung recently released its new Micro RGB TV R95H, featuring breakthrough technology that introduces individually lit LEDs capable of producing blue light on the panel. Samsung has long used a clever workaround to produce blue hues with a blue LED backlight behind panels made of red, green, and yellow LEDs, and it works, but it isn't very accurate.
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By integrating blue LEDs directly into the same unit as the red and green LEDs, the R95H can produce a wider range of colors with stunning accuracy. While it shares the same DNA as its QLED cousin, the QN90F, the Micro RGB panel offers contrast and detailing more akin to the S95H OLED. With blue, red, and green LEDs integrated into millions of specially-designed micro lenses, you get color accuracy that sets out to outstrip the king of color: the OLED.
Why blue is a big deal
The scientists who developed the blue LED won a Nobel Prize. Seriously. For decades, the blue LED was by far the most difficult (and expensive) to develop and was critical to the development of white LED light. A white LED is actually a blue one with the addition of a special chemical that fluoresces when electricity is applied.
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Once the technology was refined, it was a massive leap forward for displays and power efficiency. An LED bulb can last tens of thousands of hours and is up to 90% more efficient than incandescent bulbs, meaning displays could pack more into smaller spaces and were significantly less power-hungry. This, in turn, extended the battery life of mobile devices and reduced power consumption for wired electronics.
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