OLED Computer Monitors

Yes, I think it will trickle down eventually, but although it certainly helps if the likes of Apple adopt OLED, or maybe another manufacturer will support some other burgeoning tech... despite that, it's US, the consumer, who really holds the power. Most of us don't seem to realise that WE ultimately control what products are sold based on what we buy... it's as simple as that! If everyone en masse suddenly rejected all these expensive ultrawide and sloppily put together IPS monitors tmrw, and demanded something better, we would see some changes for the better pretty quick.

This is what annoys me about the state of play at the moment... I read so many comments from people who buy these high-end monitors who clearly aren't happy with the bleed/glow and/or stuck/dead pixels, but they just keep them regardless, almost accepting the fact that these things are acceptable for £700! It's a joke, and nothing will ever change as long as people continue to do this. Why would any manufacturer even attempt to fix a problem that we are not only accepting of, but willing to pay through the nose for?? The world's gone mad I tell you!! :eek:
 
Well LG are now doing 55" 4K panels, my dream would be a 3440*1440 21:9 OLED with a decent refresh rate.

they suffer from poor motion and so does the brand new 4K version.....but that is due to the engine that LG uses, rather than the technology.... you wont get a decent OLED for another year yet and probably only a Panasonic :cool:

the OLED looks really great until you see fast movement and then it becomes the worst tv in the whole showroom :eek:
 
This is wrong i've had my note 4 for since release and it already got screen burn on the notification bar.
Notice I was referring to one OLED panel as a demonstration of where OLED technology had progressed to, not commenting on OLED panels in general. There is a huge variance in the way different panels are constructed, no manufacturer seems to even stick with the same technology for more than a few months.

Samsung obviously believes durability is not a huge concern on phones and isn't willing to increase the build cost by using longer life OLED materials. The GT 7.7 by contrast seems to have been something of an experiment, at the time its HD RGB-OLED panel was far and away the best on the market. There was a rumour the panel cost north of $300 on its own, but I can't vouch for the validity of that. Whatever the actual cost, Samsung did succeed in building a panel with good durability; they just chose not to move forward with that technology (to my knowledge the type of panel in the 7.7 was never used again in Samsung products).

(to make an aviation analogy, I'd suggest I'm using Concorde as proof passenger jets can be supersonic and you're using the 747 as evidence they can't)

OLED is a cost/benefit balance, just like LCD. There are multiple techniques for increasing durability but they all cost money.

Nexus18 said:
Would you be keeping the exact same white text on your tablet for more than 5/10 minutes though?
Only if I were a very, very slow reader :)

But the text is always on the same lines, so the pixels there are getting much more use than the ones between the lines - anyone my age will remember seeing the stripy burn pattern this sort of text heavy use created on the monochrome CRTs of old MS-DOS boxes.

Legend said:
Honestly, where's the incentive when people are literally throwing big wads of cash at the likes of LG, Dell, AOC and Acer for crappy 'premium' IPS monitors? They are laughing all the way to the bank. Only when that stops will there be any real incentive to step up and bring OLED (or something else) to the marketplace. All these decisions are financially driven, it's quite a simple concept. The monitor manufacturers aren't our mates out to do us a favour any more than the bank manager is lol!!
Indeed, that's much more the heart of the matter than any technical limitations of OLEDs. None of the big display manufacturers is going to pull the trigger on OLED until they absolutely have to. The cost involved in building out the infrastructure for mass production of large, good quality (ie, durable and fast responding) OLED panels could very easily run in into many billions of dollars.

Much better from their point of view to keep churning out higher and higher res LCDs. Much as I hate it, their reasoning is very understandable. Blowing billions on OLED would lead to disaster if the market decides it doesn't actually care about image quality and is fine with cheap LCDs...

I do hold out some hope that Apple may have enough money and market clout force this issue eventually by adopting OLED in Macs. If Apple pays one display manufacturer for volume production of panels then the rest will have no option but to follow.
 
Apart from Apple, Samsung can do it too. Samsung has the largest OLED production lines and are now using them in their tablets - up to 10.5-inches. It's not a far cry for them to make a 12-13 inch laptop with OLED display. That will fasten things up for everyone. Although I won't hold my breath for it happening anytime soon, the margins on tablets are much higher than laptops.
 
Samsung being able to make absolutely stunning 10.5 inch panels is a sure sign that 17.3"+ panels should be possible in the future. I have a Vita and frequently go to stare at the samsung tablets in PC World and i concur, OLED/AMOLED is wonderful technology.
 
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