Making a micro-LED display is tough, every single LED, three per pixel, needs to be perfectly placed by a robot. If that sounds complex, it is. And the price of the MS1A, reflects this: It’ll set you back about $150,000. Talk about paying a premium for early adoption! But anyone who does cough up the dough will witness next-level image fidelity. With micro LED, there is nothing between you and the light-emitting diodes creating the picture. It’s like OLED in contrast, but with even higher brightness. Plus, there’s no glass in front of the screen, so there are no reflections to distract from what you see.
Because micro-LED panels are modular, it essentially consists of square tiles, the MS1A does have extremely fine seams that you might occasionally notice if you stand a few feet away, but they disappear completely at a normal viewing distance. By pre-assembling the tiles and putting them in a frame (which Samsung calls Monolith Design) it looks and acts like a giant TV. It even has built-in sound.
The performance of micro-LED is seductive. The trick is shrinking the LEDs, so they fit in a display at a size that works in a home, as opposed to in a football stadium. The MS1A achieves this milestone, it is a pricey glimpse of the future of TV technology that you can special order today.
