LG Display came to CES 2024 with something to prove. Its showroom in Las Vegas had transparent OLEDs, a 480Hz gaming monitor and the company's most advanced OLED panels yet, featuring its META technology 2.0. While it sounds like promotional fluff (and there is some of that), LG Display is trying to address arguably OLED's biggest weakness in the face of ever-improving LEDs, MicroLEDs and the rest. Using advanced microlens arrays (now called MLA) and new algorithms, LG Display says it's made an OLED 42 percent brighter than the displays that came before it. At CES 2024, I took a closer look at the prototype panels, headed to TVs later this year.

Samsung and LG have a long-running rivalry, both Korean corporations, both make TVs, speakers, freezers, toothpaste (maybe?) and the rest. It's a frosty relationship, with many trade shows revealing new TV products from both companies with nigh-on identical specifications and sizes. So it's a bit of a shock to hear from Reuters that Samsung has inked a deal with LG to buy its white OLED (WOLED) TV panels. The plan, according to the report, is for LG Display to supply two million panels next year, then three million and five million, respectively in 2025 and 2026. These high-end white OLED panels would be 77 and 83 inches, so they're likely to be in Samsung's most premium TVs.

Despite the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) taking place online for the first time in its 54-year history, the all-digital 2021 CES still served as a window to the near future, featuring more than 1,800 exhibitors showcasing their wares – virtually speaking. Granted, it can be tougher to assess how impressive these products are without seeing them with your own eyes – like the latest TV technologies or self-driving cars – but the show managed to surprise and delight with several innovative offerings. As an annual tradition during CES, the following is a few gadgets I'd actually shell out money for – even if they're not available for a long while. Galaxy S21 or iPhone 12?:How Samsung and Apple smartphones stack up Teased by Samsung earlier in the week, Bot Handy is a domestic robot that can roam around your home to perform chores – such as picking up clothes from the floor or loading the dishwasher – but my favorite feature is pouring a glass of wine and bringing it to you. After all, after the year we've just endured, who wouldn't want this kind of high-tech pampering.

Now that the big press conferences are over, the CES show floor will open today. Before we dive into the mess of gadgets and people, however, you should check out these highlights. Dude, where's my spy satellite?Top-secret Zuma payload believed lost On Sunday, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a top-secret US Government payload aboard. While we still don't know exactly what the Zuma mission was supposed to do, the Wall Street Journal reports that its payload didn't separate from the rocket's second stage and tumbled back to Earth. Look at those cute OLED eyes.Sony Aibo 2018: old robot dog, new tricks Dogs may be man's best friend, but Aibo won't be yours unless you give it some love -- no matter how much you paid for it.

This Morning After is brought to you by the death of phone calls on flights (hooray!), how Persona 5 manages to digitally manifest Tokyo and the news that the most valuable car company in the US is now Tesla -- with a lot of that value resting on the incoming cheaper Model 3. We'll write you a note'Planet Earth II' on Ultra HD Blu-ray is a good reason to buy a new TV If you've been waiting for some ideal 4K demo material, the sequel to HDTV-seller Planet Earth will do the trick. Thanks to the bitrate afforded by Ultra HD Blu-ray plus the expanded color range and contrast of HDR, Devindra Hardawar claims "it completely justifies the existence of the doomed disc format." Yesterday Spanish authorities reportedly arrested Peter Yuryevich Levashov, and according to a statement by his wife, linked him to alleged hacking of the US presidential election. Later, the US DoJ and FBI announced that Levashov is suspected of operating the "Kelihos" botnet that hijacked Windows computers to send spam, but did not mention any ties to the election. It's reportedly pumping up to $875 million into LG Display.Google might bring curved screens to its next Pixel phone Google is investing up to $875 million in LG Display to develop its own stable supply of flexible OLED screens for its Pixel phones, according to multiple reports.