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It seems as though Panasonic forced LG Display’s hand when it announced at CES 2025 the new panel technology at use in its new Z95B OLED TV — a new four-layer OLED panel structure that increases brightness while improving efficiency at the same time. Today, LG Display has confirmed that it has developed this new tech, while providing more details than LG Electronics did last week when we met with them.
For context, the new G5 OLED LG debuted gets brighter than last year’s model, but without the benefit of the MLA (Micro Lens Array) technology LG developed specifically to achieve the improved brightness it needed to compete with QD-OLED and micro-LED. At the time, LG was coy on the new technology that helped the G5 get demonstrably brighter than its predecessor, the G4 OLED TV (“We’ll have more to talk about at the reviewer’s workshop later this year,” they told us), but we had strong suspicions it was a new four-layer OLED panel technology.
Two days later, Panasonic unveiled its new OLED TV, touting a new four-layer OLED panel — one almost certainly provided by LG Display.
So what is this new panel structure? Instead of having a red/green/yellow emissive layer sandwiched between two blue layers, LG Display’s proprietary four-layer structure — called Primary RGB Tandem by LG Display (and Panasonic, which confirms it uses an LG panel) — has independent red, green, and (two) blue layers. This fourth-generation OLED panel delivers improved brightness (and not just better white brightness, but color brightness, too) while also having 20% better energy efficiency over previous generations.
And the amount of improved brightness is the truly impressive part. LG Display claims the new panel structure is capable of up to 4,000 nits of brightness (which is the same number we’ve heard from Samsung Display about its new QD-OLED panel). If the G5 is capable of hitting that 4,000 nit number, likely with the help of LG’s processing, the G5 OLED TV could prove to be a bit brighter than the Z95B (Panasonic stated 3,700 max brightness at the announcement).
Color brightness is said to reach 2,100 nits, a 40% improvement over last year. The four-layer structure also allows for a decrease in the typical level of blue light emitted.
To improve black-level performance, regardless of the amount of ambient light in a room, LG Display has also developed an ultra-low reflection film that “blocks 99% of internal and external light reflections.”
The G5 we saw at CES was honestly supremely impressive, and very well might be the best TV we see in 2025.
John Higgins is the Senior Editor of A/V at Digital Trends, leading the team in coverage of all manner of audio and video.
You Asked: What’s the most impressive thing you saw at CES?
On today’s special edition of You Asked, we tracked down each of our editors and put them on the spot to find out what they thought was the most impressive thing they saw at CES 2025 in Early January. Let’s find out what they had to say.
Panasonic Z95B
There’s been some really cool TV tech at CES, but the thing I’m most excited about is the new Panasonic Z95B. Instead of the regular OLED display structure we’ve seen in recent years with MLA technology, this uses a four-layer panel structure. It features individual red, green, and blue layers (two of the latter) for the emissive light.
Fiio brought its adorable KA15 DAC/amp to CES 2025 and now I want one
I admit it: Even though my job means I’m supposed to be laser-focused on sound quality, usability, value for money, and durability, every now and then, I see an audio product that I want to own simply because it looks awesome. That was my reaction at CES 2025 when I laid eyes on Fiio’s KA15 — a tiny mobile headphone DAC/amp that sells for $110 (though as of today’s date, it’s down to $90 on Amazon).
Specs-wise, this little all-aluminum, baby blue and silver gadget — which also comes in a much more serious Midnight Black color — covers everything you could want in a headphone DAC: support for PCM decoding up to 32-bit/768kHz, plus native DSD decoding up to DSD256, dual Cirrus Logic CS43198 DACs, a companion app and web interface that gives you access to a 10-band parametric equalizer, 4.4mm balanced and 3.5mm unbalanced headphone jacks, an ultra-low THD of 0.0004%, and up to 560 milliwatts of power per channel (when in desktop mode). Perfect for getting the most out of your lossless and hi-res audio sources via wired headphones or IEMs.
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence has been replaced by a board member
Following what has been one of the most tumultuous periods in the company’s more than two-decades-long history, Sonos has announced the departure of its CEO, Patrick Spence, effective immediately. Spence is replaced by Tom Conrad, an independent member of the Board since 2017, according to a Sonos press release, as Interim CEO, also effective immediately.
The move will come as no surprise to those who have been following events at Sonos since May 2024, when the company launched a new version of its software that was riddled with bugs and missing many of the features its customers had come to depend on.
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