LG Display unveils its 4th generation of Oled, brighter and reflection-free

At CES in Las Vegas, LG presented its new products for 2025 with its B5, C5, G5 and M5 in our sights, but ultimately we did not have any technical information during the various presentations that were made to us. We had to wait for the announcements of Panasonic and its new Z95B to understand what was at work on the side of Oled LG Display panels – which equip LG televisions of course, but also Panasonic, Philips and even certain Samsung televisions now – namely the arrival of a new Oled tandem architecture.

A new generation of Oled, ever brighter

LG Display has just communicated a little more about this fourth generation of Oled panel, and we therefore know better how the manufacturer managed to increase the brightness of its televisions to an impressive 4000 cd/m². Be careful, you will have to take this figure with a grain of salt since it is a measurement in Vivid mode and the Filmmaker mode that we use for our tests should be much more limited.

The very structure of the Oled panels is evolving this year to go from an addition of three superimposed blue-yellow-blue layers to four layers with now a distinct layer of green and red in place of the yellow, and a final blue-green arrangement -blue-red.

The advantage of this new architecture is threefold: the overall brightness of the panel is boosted, the coverage of color spaces is better and the power consumption is lower. LG Display thus announces a gain of 33% in terms of peak light, which would constitute a clear leap forward compared to to LG G4. We will see if this gain also applies in Filmmaker mode, but we can therefore count on a light peak around 2100 cd/m² and high-end Oled televisions from 2025 would compensate part of their delay on Mini-Led. As a reminder, the TCL C89B displayed 2100 cd/m², but the Sony Bravia 9 climbed to a whopping 3200 cd/m².

This gain in brightness occurs without the MLA (Micro Lens Array) filter present since the generation G3 which boosted brightness thanks to billions of microlenses. Will LG Display bring back a similar filter to increase peak light in the future?

Foolproof anti-glare on the LG G5?

In any case, the manufacturer seems to have also developed a new anti-reflective coating which promises to be even more effective than the Vanta Black present on previous generations and is taking the opportunity to gently tackle its competitor Samsung. The S95D's anti-reflective filter actually shook up the market last year, but the perception of black has been criticized in certain conditions, notably when watching a film in a bright room and the black appears a little milky or even gray. LG's solution shouldn't have this problem, but we'll obviously check for all of this during our testing.

As a bonus, the Korean manufacturer plans to integrate its recent tandem Oled panels into monitors gaming high-end in the future, enough to finally see the arrival of Oled monitors bright enough to enjoy a true HDR experience and this is therefore excellent news for gamers.

All we have to do is wait to receive the new televisions from LG to put them under our probes to find out more, around April-May if the schedule is similar to last year.