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xGaffner

xGaffner

xGaffner

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Why can't OLED come quicker?

Less response times than CRTs (0.001ms)
No input lag what so ever
More realistic vibrant colours
True blacks no matter what you set the brightness at (Individual pixels actually switch off when ever the darkest black is displayed)
Very little power consumption
They can do this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8S8tbQMp2k

Don't know about you guys but i would quite happily pay quite a price premium for an OLED monitor. The only bad thing i can think about them would be the >9000 price tag and manufacturers still haven't figured out a good enough way to make them last long enough yet.
 
Longevity is no longer much of problem they figured that out a while back typically an oled will run for about 200'000 hours, it's because they're trying to protect their investment into traditional lcd screens so mostly smoke and mirrors im afraid.

They are going to have to jump ship soon, other smaller companies are jumping ahead while they sit on their technology anyway here's a snippet from polar oled.

It's true that there exists an element of manufacturers trying to protect their investment into LCD production facilities, which has been considerable - why cannibalise their own market by introducing technology that renders LCD 'less favourable' (note, it will still have some desirable qualities as a technology) - however, there remain some issues with OLEDs, namely their production costs and lifetime performances. But most major manufacturers are investing in OLED display technologies - Sharp are somewhat reluctant at the moment.

I, for one, am certainly hoping that by bringing production costs down we can make what is a technically superior technology available to main stream consumers in the next 3-5 years, and the efficiency in terms of brightness and power consumption from OLEDs is certainly a step in the right direction from an 'eco' standpoint.

Thanks!
D. Lynham, Polar OLED Ltd
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Oled screens are the future, my cowon s9 has one and compared to a g15 plasma my little player embarrasses it. :)
 
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we could in theory get bezzelless or very close (dependant on manfucaturers want for rigidity on their product) to a perfect eyefinity setup.

but then again i have ideas that 21:9 screens will appear soon anyways almost meeting eyefinty width but with lower resolution (still good though)
 
phill1978 said:
we could in theory get bezzelless or very close (dependant on manfucaturers want for rigidity on their product) to a perfect eyefinity setup.

but then again i have ideas that 21:9 screens will appear soon anyways almost meeting eyefinty width but with lower resolution (still good though)
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By screens I assume you mean monitors as opposed to TV, since Phillips already do one called 21:9 Cinema ( http://www.cinema.philips.com/?ls=gb_en )
 
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xGaffner said:
Don't know about you guys but i would quite happily pay quite a price premium for an OLED monitor.
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The main problem is there are not enough people like you. The monitor (and to a lesser extent TV) markets are completely price-focused, most buyers will not pay anything extra for higher image quality. Even the relatively small premium for an IPS or PVA screen over a TN is too much, not just for buyers but retailers too. Shops, whether on-line or B&M, are reluctant to stock quality screens, they want something rock-bottom cheap so they can run "CHEAPEST EVAR!!!" ads.

The TV market right now is a clear example of this. Cheap TN-based TVs are pushing out better quality IPS and PVA ones so fast I'd guess within 18 months it'll be difficult to find anything of 32" or less that's not TN.

If you're a display manufacturer who's keenly aware of this rush to the bottom in the market, would you bet the company spending billions building an OLED fab plant that will produce superb quality, but initially very expensive screens. Or do you continue pumping out cheap TN LCD panels from plants that are long since paid for, into a market you know will buy everything you can make?

Not a hard choice, really. OLED will dominate, but it's going to be a very, very slow process given the combination of financial, technical and marketing problems that need to be overcome.
 
i've been following OLED development reasonably closely - when did manufacturers work out how to make the blue LEDs last long enough for a sellable product?
 
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xGaffner said:
Why can't OLED come quicker?
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No input lag what so ever
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They can do this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8S8tbQMp2k
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Source?

High resolution OLEDs are TFT matrixes, laid out very similar to current LCDs, and the electronics driving it will probably be very similar to what we have now. Fancy scalers and LUT-lookups are the primary sources of the input lag we have on decent LCDs, and neither of those will go away with OLED. Rather the other way around since every display will need a more sophisticated LUT mechanic to handle different brightness loss over time for each primary, while the low end TN we have now can get by using more or less fixed DAC-type conversion for instant effect.
 
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I'm looking forward to OLED, especially for the true black images which I think will make a huge difference particularly for watching films.
 
The tiny OLED screen on my Sony X1060 is amazing, the difference compared to my desktop TN lcd monitor is like night and day, it's like having a tiny flatscreen CRT in your hand.

I can only imagine how awesome a larger OLED tv/monitor would look like.
 
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