OLED Computer Monitors
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Cost is a big problem. It's still very expensive to make OLED panels big enough for monitors, you'd have to pay thousands of pounds for even a 22/23" screen. Burn shouldn't be a major issue with modern OLED panels - we reached a point in 2011/12 where they were good enough for years of use in tablets without any visible burn, and OLED tech is a lot more mature now. The manufacturing cost just needs to come down.
Hopefully that will happen over the next couple of years. I have a Samsung tablet with an 8.4" 2560x1600 OLED display and it is flat out the best screen I've ever seen, by a country mile. A monitor with that image quality would be stunning.
Hopefully that will happen over the next couple of years. I have a Samsung tablet with an 8.4" 2560x1600 OLED display and it is flat out the best screen I've ever seen, by a country mile. A monitor with that image quality would be stunning.
Sony have OLED monitors but be prepared to pay a large chunk of money for it 
http://www.sony.co.uk/pro/products/broadcast-products-professional-monitors-oled-monitors
Burn in would be a problem with monitors though, tablets/mobiles aren't the same as you very rarely, if ever will have the exact same image on your display for more than 5 minutes (outside of gaming and the notification bar icons), with pc's, you have the windows outer frame, icons, word documents etc. etc. open for 30+ minutes, it would be a nightmare for pc usage.
OLED tv's suffer from burn in still although it has been reduced with the latest panels but it is still a big issue along with tinting, dead pixels etc.
So I imagine it will be the same for OLED monitors unless they have done something drastically different to the oled panels used in the tvs and mobiles/tablets....
Not sure about the cost, for some reason TV's tech. in general seems a lot cheaper than monitor tech. i.e. you could get the first gen LG 55" (iirc) OLED tv at the indian place for £2k (original price when it first came out was £3-4k iirc), where as that 25" oled monitor costs £4k
http://www.sony.co.uk/pro/products/broadcast-products-professional-monitors-oled-monitors
Burn in would be a problem with monitors though, tablets/mobiles aren't the same as you very rarely, if ever will have the exact same image on your display for more than 5 minutes (outside of gaming and the notification bar icons), with pc's, you have the windows outer frame, icons, word documents etc. etc. open for 30+ minutes, it would be a nightmare for pc usage.
OLED tv's suffer from burn in still although it has been reduced with the latest panels but it is still a big issue along with tinting, dead pixels etc.
So I imagine it will be the same for OLED monitors unless they have done something drastically different to the oled panels used in the tvs and mobiles/tablets....
Not sure about the cost, for some reason TV's tech. in general seems a lot cheaper than monitor tech. i.e. you could get the first gen LG 55" (iirc) OLED tv at the indian place for £2k (original price when it first came out was £3-4k iirc), where as that 25" oled monitor costs £4k
Well LG are now doing 55" 4K panels, my dream would be a 3440*1440 21:9 OLED with a decent refresh rate.
OLED has close to zero response time, so I'm sure they will be super attractive gaming options when they get cheaper.
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People say this all the time, but my experience is completely different. I owned a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, which has an OLED screen, and used it mainly for reading - white text on a black background; it must have clocked up a couple of thousand hours doing that. On a screen with burn issues that would certainly have caused at least faint horizontal striping, but there wasn't a trace of it. The screen uniformity was as good after almost 3 years as the day it came out of the box.
Obviously even a few thousand hours isn't huge in monitor terms, but given the advances in OLED materials recently I'd be amazed if 10,000+ hours without any trace of visible burn isn't achievable. Possibly quite a bit more with the RGBW panels that LG are working with.
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This is wrong i've had my note 4 for since release and it already got screen burn on the notification bar.
Would you be keeping the exact same white text on your tablet for more than 5/10 minutes though?
I had a one s and not only did it have burn in with the notification icons but after 2 years, the screen overall had degraded in image quality wise.
I had a one s and not only did it have burn in with the notification icons but after 2 years, the screen overall had degraded in image quality wise.
yeh my friend has one in her bedroom, with the clear base i still think its rly cool looking, the new 4k ones make them kind of expensive again but they should come down i guess
and i guess its a mass produced thing, a lot more tv's made than monitors but they are starting to merge for the first time!? 40inch 4k panel is perfectly fine for computer use too depending on how far you sit, so it might happen at the same time depending on what you are after
them having freesync/gsync i doubt tho lol
Ah so that's what it is on my Note 2 then
Ironically I was reading up on OLED earlier.
According to WIKI; response times for OLED are up to 1,000 times that of LCD, putting them at an estimate 0.01ms.
Also, theoretically refresh rates could reach 100,000Hz.....
Response time will no longer be the limiting factor in refresh rate, but that doesn't mean 100,000 Hz refresh rate will be possible. There are still bandwidth limitations and other limits related to video processing on the board of the monitor etc.
Once OLEDs become mainstream, I imagine we'll see advancements up to around 1000 Hz refresh rates and then it becomes totally irrelevant.
OLED has been talked about for ages, like 8 years since the first commercial TV.
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200710/07-1001E/
I think if it were viable tech we'd have 32" panels using it by now.
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200710/07-1001E/
I think if it were viable tech we'd have 32" panels using it by now.
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!!
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Your point in generally valid but you're disregarding the engineering side of things. It's not like they've all got OLED fully figured out and are holding off the release only to sell more IPS panels.
No I agree... but that's precisely what I meant... the engineering is the most costly part, and why would they bother spending the money on getting a new tech fit and ready when they're making bags of cash from the existing one? No incentive.
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That's true. For example, when SSDs were being developed, everyone knew they could sell the SSDs for a much much greater £/GB than HDDs, and much greater profits, so they had incentives. The same thing isn't true for OLEDs as people won't be spending more than the current IPS prices to get those. The ROG Swift or Acer XB270HU is pretty much the ceiling for how much people will pay for gaming monitors, an OLED £2000 gaming monitor isn't gonna sell well, less than that isn't worth the investment and R&D.
But the incentive is there for mobile devices, and we can hope that the same technology will help push OLED on desktops as well.
What really made IPS cheap and widespread was Apple's push to make them widely available on all products (Apple doesn't put something on their devices unless they can make it cheap to keep their margins high). Apple now uses OLED on Apple Watch. So I guess they're in the game now. That's good news.