OLED TV-Monitors

DX24

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Hi been following CES 2012 and a new OLED TV is coming out this year so they say.

I thought a OLED monitor would have came out before a TV being they are 1080P and we are 1440-1600 already.

How long before we see this Tech for PCs is it a long way away or just around the corner and I should think the price will be hefty.

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There was a thread with the same question a few days ago.
The technology will be limited to high-end TVs at first and even those are months away, it's very very doubtful that you'll see a monitor using the technology in 2012.
 
Difficult question to answer really, even the top bods in the TV companies will only have a vague idea as it depends on the development and the market's response. I would expect it in the next 5 years, or certainly a new rival display technology based on similar principles.
 
If you type 'oled pc monitors' into Google and have a read of the second article down it may be useful. Or it may not. ;) The TV market dwarfs the monitor market and at this kind of end of the budget scale it is something that isn't really ready for the monitor market yet. There are also some potential image retention and differential pixel lifetime issues which are of being worked on. The current iterations of the technology are not necessarily suitable for a monitor. A TV features an ever-changing image whereas a monitor does not if you are just on the desktop. Having said that the LG solution used in their latest TV and some 'medical monitors' is WOLED - using white organic LEDs and a colour filter. This wouldn't suffer from the same issues as Samsung's 'Super-Oled' tech but again price is a big factor.
 
As above, the money for the expensive, high quality technologies is there in the TV market (just look at the number of £1000-3000 TVs available). Therefore, expect to see OLED unleashed there well before it filters down to affordable PC monitors.

This is partly because for the PC monitor market cheap 1080p TN panels are often "good enough" and usually only the relatively small "prosumer" and professional markets are prepared to pay for the high tech kit.

Since producing these new panel technologies really requires very large economies of scale to make them remotely affordable then it makes sense for the display companies to gear production towards TVs -as they have much more chance of selling them when made in large numbers.
 
OK I've read all you're post and now understand the concept.

Though if we PC Gamers need powerfull GPUs to run are games at 1440-1600 how on earth will a Xbox 720,PS4 run theirs at a OLED Rez in the future.
 
DX24 said:
OK I've read all you're post and now understand the concept.

Though if we PC Gamers need powerfull GPUs to run are games at 1440-1600 how on earth will a Xbox 720,PS4 run theirs at a OLED Rez in the future.
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These TVs are going to be 1080p at first (I'm pretty sure, I don't remember reading that they were going to be e.g. 4k or anything yet), so no worries on that front yet.

It'll be a good few years before we get it in monitors I'd think. And a bit longer after that before they're anything like the prices of the screens we have at the moment. Most people expect the 55" Samsung to be somewhere in the £8-10k range, don't they?

I definitely really, really want one though. If they match the AMOLED on their phones, these tellies are going to look incredible.
 
OLED resolution is no different to LCD resolution. If you're talking things being adapted to fit future broadcasting standard... There will be upscaling of the content just like currently for consoles.
 
DX24 said:
Though if we PC Gamers need powerfull GPUs to run are games at 1440-1600 how on earth will a Xbox 720,PS4 run theirs at a OLED Rez in the future.
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The PS3 and Xbox 360 don't run 1080p resolution atm either, heck more often than not they don't even run 720p lately.

By the time the 4k monitors are common good it's not the PS4 that will be outputting to it but more likely a PS5.
 
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