Interesting Monitors

[Tom Westbrook]

This seems like an interesting development:

http://www.slashgear.com/sony-shows-...ors-124749.php

[Ken Allen]

Kodak and Sony have been working together to develop this OLED technology for (estimating) 15 years now. I've been waiting and waiting. I figure they must be having some very challenging technical problems if they have not been able to make a product yet.

If anyone has the inside scoop on if we are actually going to see real products from this technology I'd love to hear about it.
-ken

[Brian Ellis]

I thought Samsung already had an LED monitor on the market or maybe was getting ready to bring one to market within a month or two. Is that something different from what Sony and Kodak are doing?

[Marko]

It'll be interesting to see if they can be reliably calibrated.

[Gordon Moat]

I heard the biggest market is for screens for hand held devices, mostly mobile phones. There is some aspect of chemical and film production technology that relates well to OLED production, which is likely why Fujifilm are also involved in this. I believe there may be some colour range issues, which might be why larger displays have not been on the market yet.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat
A G Studio

[paulr]

hasn't apple been promising to use LEDs in all their monitors by some time in the next year?

[Ralph Barker]

I want one for the display on my 8x10 digital.

[AJSJones]

hasn't apple been promising to use LEDs in all their monitors by some time in the next year?

The OP was about OLED displays (organic light emitting diode) made from thin films containing organic compounds that emit light when stimulated by a voltage while Apple's push is to use "ordinary" semiconductor LEDs as backlights for LCD displays such as found in laptops . For OLEDs the light is the pixel, while for Apple the LED is the light behind the pixel.

[Rakesh Malik]

There is some aspect of chemical and film production technology that relates well to OLED production, which is likely why Fujifilm are also involved in this. I believe there may be some colour range issues, which might be why larger displays have not been on the market yet.

There's also been some work done on rollable OLED displays.

As far as I know, and I don't have any inside knowledge, so this is just from reading tech news, the OLED monitors have better color range than current designs. They are also more efficient and emit more light, since the pixels themelves are emitters rather than filters as is the case with TFT and LCD display technologies.

The two issues were life, in that OLEDs tended not to last very long (hours, maybe a few days) when they were new, and also the manufacturing technology to make OLED displays in large sizes and in large volumes didn't exist yet.

[scott_6029]

Pretty awesome looking..HD in thin package.