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For the past few years OLED has stolen most of the spotlight as the next generation technology set to outperform current plasma and LCD displays in terms of both energy efficiency and picture quality. Although OLED is barely out of the blocks, QD Vision and LG Display have just announced a joint development agreement focusing on electroluminescent quantum dot LED (QLED) nanotechnology, which promises to sweep all display technologies before it, including OLED. QLED promises energy efficient displays that offer brighter, richer colors, can be printed on ultra-thin, transparent or flexible substrates and manufactured cheaply.
I watch everything on my laptop LCD or, when I’m at home in Thailand, on an old 21″ CRT TV. Works fine except I have to push the buttons on the remote really hard.
#10 Have you ever actually seen an OLED display? They are fantastic.
Place an iPhone next to a Galaxy S and the OLED screen in the Galaxy is very obviously the winner. My Zune HD always gets given a second look because of the richness of its colors and the deepness of the blacks which LCD simply can’t achieve.
Sony has already demoed flexible screens.
Anyway, as the article states, this QLED thingy is still just on paper. No actual prototype let alone a product is due for at least 5 years.
#19 Thats what OLED does, and LCD on computer screens and most portable devices (but not TVs, we sit far enough away for it not to be noticable).
Cheaper, better image, with lower power consumption are great things.
One thing is keeping me from upgrading my LCD. From my recliner I couldn’t tell the difference: trifocals.
#11,
Sprint offers OLED android phones and ones that use WiMax 4G.
I have one, seems like it works.
OLED’s for HDTV are being held back more by the need to pay off LCD process lines than by technology at present. The few existing OLED lines are maxed out making cellphone screens.
WiMax is also here in many many places, merely rebranded.
OLEDs in large screens are a non-starter until phosphor aging issues are addressed. They will dominate small screen eventually as manufacturing scale brings down prices. Large screen is and will continue to be LED-driven LCD, even if this quantum-dot (engineered molecules that provide better point sources of color-accurate light) tech takes off, due to the sheer maturity and manufacturing base of LCD. If QLED can take advantage of existing LCD fabs without sigificant re-tooling it may have a decent chance.
Just wait. Someone will figure out how to use cuttlefish skin as a display, and we’ll hunt the poor guys to extinction.