q8fn 75 inch lcd panel made in china

4K Resolution with direct LED lighting and local dimming (hundreds of zones - likely 450-500). Brightness is claimed to reach 2000 nit peaks on this flagship model - and it’s nice to find a 55-inch model included in the flagship range this year, even if this 55-inch model is not currently scheduled to launch in the US.

All of the NU series of TVs for 2018 use ‘standard’ LED technologies rather than the Samsung’s metal-clad Quantum Dots found in the QLED models. This means they can’t deliver such extreme levels of brightness and color. It’s worth noting, too, that unlike the Q9FN and (US) Q8FN models, none of the NU models use contrast-friendly direct LED lighting, where the LEDs sit behind the screen. They’re all edge-lit. The pay-off with the NU models, of course, is that they’re significantly cheaper than Samsung’s QLED models.

The NU8500 series uses Samsung’s (pre-QLED) Dynamic Crystal color technology to deliver a wider color gamut than you get from typical LCD TVs. Its edge LED system features local dimming, where separate segments of the lights can output different amounts of brightness to suit the picture. Though it won’t do this with as much precision as a TV with direct LED lighting and local dimming.

Two of China"s biggest display panel manufacturers, BOE and ChinaStar, are in the midst of implementing changes that will likely have significant effects on the 65- and 75-inch TV supply chain while also incurring challenges resulting from those very impacts, as shown by the latest analysis from the IHS Markit TV Display & OEM Intelligence Service.

For BOE, the substantial ramp-up of its Gen 10.5 fab in Q2 2018 made the Beijing-based manufacturer the world champion in shipments of 65- and 75-inch TV panels during last year"s final few months. Now with the company"s plans to push Gen 10.5 capacity to 100% by mid-2019, shipments of the two large TV panels are expected to expand sizeably.

For its part, Shenzhen-based ChinaStar started glass substrate inputs at its Gen 10.5 fab, also known as T6, in January 2019, with commercialized shipments following two months later in March. ChinaStar manufactures 43- and 65-inch TV panels at the T6 fab, with the 75-inch slated for production beginning in the middle of 2019.

The compelling numbers from both BOE and ChinaStar can"t be overlooked. For years, hegemony of the 65- and 75-inch was claimed by Korean titans, Samsung Display and LG Display, alongside Taiwanese makers, AUO and Innolux, with both Japan"s Sharp and the Gen 10 fab of Hon Hai-Sharp joint venture, SDP, owning the 60- and 70-inch space. The hefty production capacity of BOE and ChinaStar, however, has now reshaped the television panel supply chain for the 65- and 75-inch sizes, and their production is also impacting the activity of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in those panel sizes.

The sufficient supply and low cost of both large panels are also facilitating the entry of other players into the market for larger screens. These other players now able to penetrate previously inaccessible markets including smaller TV and tier 3 brands, together with their OEMs and original design manufacturers (ODMs). Xiaomi TV is a good example of a rapidly rising brand, with Huawei also projected to join the group in 2019.

This year, BOE is targeting shipments of 5 million units of the 65-inch and 3 million units of the 75-inch, while ChinaStar is aiming to ship 2 million units of the 65-inch and 800,000 units of the 75-inch. Together, both display manufacturers will ship in 2019 a total of 7 million units of the 65-inch and nearly 4 million units of the 75-inch.

While BOE and ChinaStar have succeeded in expanding capacity and have substantially boosted their manufacturing output, an important consideration remains: the customer—in this case, the TV manufacturers that must first qualify for their own use the panels made by BOE and ChinaStar; and following qualification, must then design the panels into their respective TV models—a process known in the OEM and ODM industry as "design-in." Despite the large production numbers of BOE and ChinaStar, adoption of their panels was never a given, and the record must be examined to determine the customers of the two Chinese manufacturers.

Who is buying the 65-inch panel from BOE? The answer: Four of the global top five brands, including Samsung, LG, Hisense, and Sony. The lone holdout from the top 5? It"s TCL, which is not interested in purchasing the 65-inch from BOE because ChinaStar, a member of the TCL conglomerate, is about to mass-produce the 65-inch with the ramp-up soon of its own Gen 10.5 fab.

Meanwhile, BOE is also shipping a substantial number of 65-inch panels to BOE VT, its own subsidiary, as well as to China New Century (CNC), a China-based white-box TV OEM and ODM, adding to its total client shipments. The chart below shows BOE"s shipments of the 65-inch TV panel to its various customers.

Who, then, is buying BOE"s 75-inch TV panels? The same companies that are customers of BOE"s 65-inch panel. The exceptions are TCL again, as well as Sony. But unlike the 65-inch space, BOE has a tougher job in the 75-inch panel segment, where it will be in competition with ChinaStar as the latter starts production of the 75-inch at its Gen 10.5 fab.

Moreover, panel makers like AUO and the two Korean giants won"t be yielding the 75-inch market to BOE easily. At the start of the year in January, BOE started shipping the 75-inch to customers like LG Electronics, Hisense, Samsung VD, Skyworth, and the white-box or tier 3 market.

For all their aggressive shipment targets in 2019, BOE and ChinaStar have not gained enough "design-in" customers. This means that tier 3 brands—with their more relaxed qualification criteria—will be expected to play a big role in digesting the leftover 65- and 75-inch panels that BOE and ChinaStar are unable to offload to their current big-name customers.

The back of the Q8FN is nearly identical to the NU8000. It has the same cable management system which works exceptionally well for guiding all of the cables either through the legs or through the bottom of the TV when wall-mounted.

Excellent build quality. There are no gaps in the construction. It is mostly plastic but there are some metal parts. It feels well built and solid. The back panel has a lot of flex in the middle where the VESA mounts are located, and the corners of the bezel are slightly cracked but this should not cause any issues.

Decent local dimming on the Q8FN, very similar to the Sony X900F. The Q8FN does not completely turn off zones that were far away from our test dot. The Q8FN has less visible blooming than the X900F, but the black levels are not as deep.

Update 01/08/2019: The Q8FN in Europe does not have a full array local dimming feature, but is instead edge-lit. Samsung has instead released the Q8DN, which has the same full array local dimming feature as the one we have tested.

Excellent peak brightness with SDR content. Highlights are very bright and stand out. The 2018 Q8FN is much brighter than last year"s Q8C. Real scenes are not as bright as our test windows, but still bright enough for most rooms.

Decent gray uniformity, but worse than last year"s Q8. The sides of the Q8FN are darker than the rest of the screen, but this isn"t as noticeable as when it is in the center. The center of the screen is not uniform, this will be noticeable when watching sports like hockey or football with large areas of uniform color in the center of the screen.

The Samsung Q8 has a poor viewing angle, the picture quality degrades when viewed off angle. Blacks turn gray and colors shift even with a small angle. This TV is not a good choice for a room with side seating or even with a large couch. These results are typical of VA-type panels. OLED panels like the LG C7 have much better viewing angles.

The 2018 Q8FN has excellent reflection handling. Reflections are well defined but at a much lower intensity, as such there is much less glare. The anti-reflection coating gives reflections a slight purple tint, but this isn"t really noticeable. This TV is excellent even for a very bright room.

Excellent wide color gamut. The Q8FN can display nearly 100% of the P3 color space, and has the highest Rec.2020 coverage we have ever seen, although it is very close to the 2017 Q9F.

The Q8FN has an excellent response time with very little overshoot. The left and right sides of the chart do not line up due to the local dimming feature.

The Q8FN uses PWM to dim the backlight, and it flickers regardless of backlight setting, even at 100%. The flicker changes considerably depending on settings. Normally, it flickers at 480 Hz, which shouldn"t be noticeable and creates little motion duplication. This is much better than last year"s Q8C, and almost as good as Sony"s X900F.

The Samsung Q8FN has an optional BFI mode called "LED Clear Motion" that adjusts the flicker depending on the content to help motion appear more clear.

BFI on the Q8FN is able to flicker at a variety of frequencies, as low as 60Hz to help fluidity of motion with 60 fps content. Similarly to the NU8000, it is also available in "Game Mode".

The Samsung 2018 Q8FN has a 120Hz panel, and can interpolate lower frame rate content up to 120 Hz. This helps motion appear much smoother, but it can sometimes get it wrong and cause motion artifacts. In scenes with lots of motion the TV stops interpolating, preferring to maintain quality similar to the LG C8. This effect can look strange to many people and is also known as the "Soap Opera Effect".

The Q8FN is almost always judder-free, but when playing 24p content through a streaming device at 60i, it was inconsistent. This result is unexpected, although we have similar results with other Samsungs we have tested. We will retest this with each firmware update. This will not be an issue for most people.

The Samsung Q8FN does not support FreeSync from our Radeon RX 580 GPU. We tried multiple combinations of "Game Mode", "PC Mode" and different refresh rates but FreeSync was never detected as supported.

Most common resolutions and refresh rates are supported without issue. Like the NU8000, the Q8FN does not support 1440p@60Hz, and in PC mode with a 1440p@120Hz signal the TV does not display chroma 4:4:4 properly, as colors appear washed out.

The Q8FN does not support DTS passthrough like the NU8000. This should not be an issue since most media provides both DTS and Dolby Digital sound streams.

The frequency response of of the Q8FN is below-average. Low-frequency extension (LFE) is at 76Hz, which is quite decent for a TV. This means that this TV will be able to produce some punch and kick, but no thump or rumble in the bass range. The response above the TV"s LFE is decently flat and well-balanced, but because this TV doesn"t have a room correction system, it wasn"t able to remove the modes of our test room around 200Hz. The Max SPL of 85.5dB is above-average, but may not be enough for loud environments.

The interface of the Q8FN is well organized and intuitive. The interface is inconsistent, occasionally dropping frames on animations. The 2018 Q8FN and NU8000 are worse than last year"s models.

Like all Samsung TVs, the Q8FN has ads throughout the home menu, as well as suggested content within the app store. They are not always there, and there is no option to disable them.

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One of today’s modern technological wonders is the flat-panel liquid crystal display (LCD) screen, which is the key component we find inside televisions, computer monitors, smartphones, and an ever-proliferating range of gadgets that display information electronically.What most people don’t realize is how complex and sophisticated the manufacturing process is. The entire world’s supply is made within two time zones in East Asia. Unless, of course, the factory proposed by Foxconn for Wisconsin actually gets built.

Liquid crystal display (LCD) screens are manufactured by assembling a sandwich of two thin sheets of glass.On one of the sheets are transistor “cells” formed by first depositing a layer of indium tin oxide (ITO), an unusual metal alloy that you can actually see through.That’s how you can get electrical signals to the middle of a screen.Then you deposit a layer of silicon, followed by a process that builds millions of precisely shaped transistor parts.This patterning step is repeated to build up tiny little cells, one for each dot (known as a pixel) on the screen.Each step has to be precisely aligned to the previous one within a few microns.Remember, the average human hair is 40 microns in diameter.

On the other sheet of glass, you make an array of millions of red, green, and blue dots in a black matrix, called a color filter array (CFA).This is how you produce the colors when you shine light through it.Then you drop tiny amounts of liquid crystal material into the cells on the first sheet and glue the two sheets together.You have to align the two sheets so the colored dots sit right on top of the cells, and you can’t be off by more than a few microns in each direction anywhere on the sheet.The sandwich is next covered with special sheets of polarizing film, and the sheets are cut into individual “panels” – a term that is used to describe the subassembly that actually goes into a TV.

For the sake of efficiency, you would like to make as many panels on a sheet as possible, within the practical limitations of how big a sheet you can handle at a time.The first modern LCD Fabs built in the early 1990s made sheets the size of a single notebook computer screen, and the size grew over time. A Gen 5 sheet, from around 2003, is 1100 x 1300 mm, while a Gen 10.5 sheet is 2940 x 3370 mm (9.6 x 11 ft).The sheets of glass are only 0.5 - 0.7 mm thick or sometimes even thinner, so as you can imagine they are extremely fragile and can really only be handled by robots.The Hefei Gen 10.5 fab is designed to produce the panels for either eight 65 inch or six 75 inch TVs on a single mother glass.If you wanted to make 110 inch TVs, you could make two of them at a time.

The fab is enormous, 1.3 km from one end to the other, divided into three large buildings connected by bridges.LCD fabs are multi-story affairs.The main equipment floor is sandwiched between a ground floor that is filled with chemical pipelines, power distribution, and air handling equipment, and a third floor that also has a lot of air handling and other mechanical equipment.The main equipment floor has to provide a very stable environment with no vibrations, so an LCD fab typically uses far more structural steel in its construction than a typical skyscraper.I visited a Gen 5 fab in Taiwan in 2003, and the plant manager there told me they used three times as much structural steel as Taipei 101, which was the world’s tallest building from 2004- 2010.Since the equipment floor is usually one or two stories up, there are large loading docks on the outside of the building.When they bring the manufacturing equipment in, they load it onto a platform and hoist it with a crane on the outside of the building.That’s one way to recognize an LCD fab from the outside – loading docks on high floors that just open to the outdoors.

LCD fabs have to maintain strict standards of cleanliness inside.Any dust particles in the air could cause defects in the finished displays – tiny dark spots or uneven intensities on your screen.That means the air is passed through elaborate filtration systems and pushed downwards from the ceiling constantly.Workers have to wear special clean room protective clothing and scrub before entering to minimize dust particles or other contamination.People are the largest source of particles, from shedding dead skin cells, dust from cosmetic powders, or smoke particles exhaled from the lungs of workers who smoke.Clean rooms are rated by the number of particles per cubic meter of air.A class 100 cleanroom has less than 100 particles less than 0.3 microns in diameter per cubic meter of air, Class 10 has less than 10 particles, and so on. Fab 9 has hundeds of thousands of square meters of Class 100 cleanroom, and many critical areas like photolithography are Class 10.In comparison, the air in Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA is roughly Class 8,000,000, and probably gets substantially worse when an MBTA bus passes through.

The Hefei Gen 10.5 is one of the most sophisticated manufacturing plants in the world.On opening day for the fab, BOE shipped panels to Sony, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Vizio, and Haier.So if you have a new 65 or 75-inch TV, there is some chance the LCD panel came from here.