Perhaps we should start with ‘ what was Micro Lens Array ’ OLED ? At CES 2025 , LG announced that it was no longer featuring the panel in its coming television , so Micro Lens Array ’s stay in theTV world was short - lived .

Micro Lens Array ( or MLA for short ) arrived as part of LG Display ’s META Technology to avail give exchange premium OLED telecasting a boost . It ’s now been replaced by LG Display’sPrimary RGB Tandempanel that will feature in the G5 and M5 OLEDs that are come in 2025 .

But if you have a G3 orG4 OLED telly , or a flagship OLED from Panasonic and Philips , here is how MLA allowed those TVs to be even brighter than old generations .

What is Micro Lens Array?

One of the issues with OLED technology has been its comprehend want of brightness level compare to other TV panels . Brightness for HDR cognitive content is important as it allows for a wide-cut range of colours to be shown on screen .

OLED TVs have n’t been the bright compare to their LCD andMini LEDpeers , and so Micro Lens Array aimed to supercharge the grade of brightness a projection screen can bring forth .

Micro Lens Array is an furtherance of LG ’s EX technology , and forms one spell of META Technology that LG Display produce . It ’s a consistent pattern in the screen panel that feature decade of trillion of micro lenses that boil down the loss of light from internal reflections to meliorate the levels of brightness the silver screen can produce . The more light that is kept within the screen , the more luminosity ( or cleverness ) that is transmitted to the user .

A 77 - inch 4 cat valium OLED with the META Technology is said to feature 42.4 billion micro Lens in its screen , with approximately 5117 micro lenses per pel . As you may no doubt guess , that ’s a lot of micro lense .

What are the benefits of Micro Lens Array?

We ’ve already mentioned one positive aspect of Micro Lens Array by up the brightness the screen can produce for a rich colour experience .

TheLG G3 OLEDis a screen that can well hit 1400 nits of luminance with HDR content . In its Vivid mode we measured hitting a scorching 1700 nits , which at the metre was the just result we ’ve seen from an OLED TV . Higher brightness also contribute to a high fair brightness , and take a crap it easier to take in an OLED telecasting in a hopeful room as it wo n’t suffer as much from ambient light or glare on the screen .

Another welfare of Micro Lens Array is that to produce this level of brightness , it does n’t want any additional king , so it is more vim efficient than former OLED panels . And the way that Micro Lens Array exploit by reduce the amount of low-cal loss from the screen also appropriate it to improve the see angle by 30 % .

There ’s also the element that with most HDR capacity mastered at around 1000 nit , the bright a telly is , the less demand for it to apply tonicity map . That means the TV does n’t postulate to suppose or make an assumption as to what colouration is on screen or how undimmed a particular aim is , it can plainly just show as it was mean to be .

What is META Technology?

META Technology was make by LG Display for its 3rd generation OLED panel . The Micro Lens Array is one element , and the other facet is the META Booster algorithm .

The META Booster algorithm canvass the epitome to spot where it can meliorate overall light , colour verbalism and areas of peak white . It does this in literal - time to verify the luminance in each setting , to make bright areas brighter , and sinister sphere even darker to create impactful contrast and realistic - looking fit .

Micro Lens Array legacy

Now that MLA OLED panels have been discontinued , it ’s unlikely we ’ll see this technology in LG ’s OLEDs or any other manufactuer ’s TVs . But it facilitate play its part in making ( some ) OLED TVs brighter , and we ’re look forward to take in what the new Primary RGB Tandem venire can do in the like of theLG G5 and M5 OLEDs , as well as thePanasonic Z95B.