OLED Technology coming to monitors

RareEntitee · 28 Oct 2009 at 17:49

what are your thoughts? the prototype seen here isn't really my cup of tea cause transparency voids all privacy. still nice to see this technology moving forward. from phones to laptops, monitors to tvs ;D

Killgroup · 28 Oct 2009 at 18:30

It's alright, but impractical, if it's transparent you can barely see the picture, but it could work for other things like if you hold it infront of the Eiffel tower it recognises it and kind of gives facts alongside it etc. or something like that.

Shelster · 29 Oct 2009 at 07:26

Very fancy.

Will be like being on the set of CSI:NY.

Not very practical though at present. If the rear of the screen had a one way mirroring on it, then that would help cure any privacy issues, but for a normal monitor in your house, sat o nthe corner of a desk, with only a wall behind it, cant see any problems.

Will just have to wait for my 6 numbers to come up before i consider getting one though

explicit4u · 29 Oct 2009 at 21:52

silly idea imo.

We dont need all these fancy ideas, just slap em OLED's in a tv and start churning them out to the masses (small screens and monitors first), no one will buy a 50" OLED TV at launch for £8000 unless there stupidly rich.

jak731 · 29 Oct 2009 at 21:57

It could have a niche like killgroup mentioned, i think a 50" OLED screen would cost more than £80000 atm

Blackbadger · 29 Oct 2009 at 22:09

LCD's are transparent too, backlights are used so you can see whats on the screen.

explicit4u · 29 Oct 2009 at 22:20

jak731 said:
i think a 50" OLED screen would cost more than £80000 atm

80K??? to produce it should be no where near that amount. if they did put out a 50" OLED I would say around 8K-12K

Bonjour · 29 Oct 2009 at 23:45

Of course people would buy it at that price.

It would be the same people that bought DVD recorders for a grand and Blu-Ray players at launch for a similar amount.

nate247 · 30 Oct 2009 at 00:06

I remember when the first Philips Flatscreen's came out and they were abour £12-£14k if I remember rightly... Knew somebody that bought one actually. Guess it was good bragging rights for them for 12 months but deffo not the wisest purchase to be first to those sort of new & expensive tech's. Although I did buy a Toshiba DVD PLayer when they first came out for £350 remember my Dad saying it would never take off because you couldn't record. How wrong was he

lol... Although rather than accept his foolish ways he just denies saying it in the first place now... lol

Bonjour · 30 Oct 2009 at 08:05

Yeah, I got a Pioneer DV-505 when DVD players were pretty new. Cost around £300 I think.

-Ad- · 30 Oct 2009 at 08:33

explicit4u said:
80K??? to produce it should be no where near that amount. if they did put out a 50" OLED I would say around 8K-12K

From your great knowledge of the technology and the R&D + production process involved ? Picking random numbers out of the air really doesn't work

I say it's going to cost 2.4 elephants and a pack of penguins!

The transparant screen looks pretty cool, but after seeing the 11inch SONY OLED screen a in Spetember I must say that I cannot wait to see the tech implemented in larger screens. Although it was only an 11 inch, the picture was truly phenomenal, especially the infinate black levels (making a Kuro look grey) and the stunning 3D like effect created.

Chris Beard · 30 Oct 2009 at 08:52

-Ad- said:
From your great knowledge of the technology and the R&D + production process involved ? Picking random numbers out of the air really doesn't work

I say it's going to cost 2.4 elephants and a pack of penguins!

The transparant screen looks pretty cool, but after seeing the 11inch SONY OLED screen a in Spetember I must say that I cannot wait to see the tech implemented in larger screens. Although it was only an 11 inch, the picture was truly phenomenal, especially the infinate black levels (making a Kuro look grey) and the stunning 3D like effect created.

I think it probably has more to do with what a consumer is willing to pay rather than production and R&D costs. So - probably only 1.4 elephants and a pack of chocolate penguins.

Bonjour · 30 Oct 2009 at 09:02

Yeah, that 11" Sony display is hugely impressive.

Can't wait for the tech to mature and become mainstream.

jak731 · 31 Oct 2009 at 01:31

explicit4u said:
80K??? to produce it should be no where near that amount. if they did put out a 50" OLED I would say around 8K-12K

Do you realise quite how expencive OLED is at the moment? The 11" sony XEL-1 costs around 2.5-3K, assume the cost per area is the same and a 50" screen would be 50K, so i was a bit off but nobody would buy a screen at that price.

Maybe in 5 years large screens will have a practical cost.

alex24 · 31 Oct 2009 at 01:36

I think the picture in the OP is misleading. OLED doesn't mean the screen will be transparent, that was just a one-off.

OLED is an exciting upcoming tech, but as with most it's probably already being succeeded by something else. I'd quite like to see screens with super low power draws, not sure how much power an OLED screen would use.

EsaT · 31 Oct 2009 at 11:17

alexhull24 said:
I think the picture in the OP is misleading. OLED doesn't mean the screen will be transparent, that was just a one-off.

Yeah, that was just some tech demo of possibilities of having single element act as light source/brightness control of pixel.
(LCD could never work that way)

OLED is an exciting upcoming tech, but as with most it's probably already being succeeded by something else. I'd quite like to see screens with super low power draws, not sure how much power an OLED screen would use.

FED/SED don't have any benefits over it in primary areas.
And OLED will actually drop monitor's power consumption dramatically unlike overhyped LED backlighting which doesn't do anything to LCD's problems:
In photography rule is that use of polarizer halves amount of light. So should be easy to realize how much light backlighted LCD wastes when it has two polarizers and then there are also losses in liquid crystal and colour filter!

Bonjour · 31 Oct 2009 at 11:41

OLED's hardly an upcoming tech. It's been around for 6 years or more.

alex24 · 31 Oct 2009 at 13:38

Bonjour said:
OLED's hardly an upcoming tech. It's been around for 6 years or more.

So you've had an OLED screen for 6 years?

I was talking about blu-ray long before it's release (probably around early 2004). I still regard it as an upcoming tech, certainly in the last year or so.

madindehead · 31 Oct 2009 at 13:53

Bonjour said:
OLED's hardly an upcoming tech. It's been around for 6 years or more.

OLED is very much an upcoming tech. The actual technology may have been around for a while sure. But only within R&D and news articles about the next best thing.

Once it has been in the mainstream consumer market for a while, and everyone and their granny has one, OLED is still an upcoming tech. Hell, even HD TV and Blu-Ray (the first Blu-Ray produced was launched in 2003 - 6 year down the line, it's still upcoming) are both very much still upcoming tech. And how long have we been talking about those?

Bonjour · 31 Oct 2009 at 19:15

Now you're just arguing semantics.

Your interpretation of the word 'upcoming' is clearly different to mine.

And the dictionary's...