Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Organic LEDs to Supercede LCDs?

Posted by michael on from the matchbox-quake dept.

Hootie Hoo writes "Tech Review.com is reporting that a new screen display method may soon make LCD screens a thing of the past. Organic light-emitting diodes are brighter, thinner, lighter, and faster than liquid crystal displays. They also take less power to run, offer higher contrast, look equally bright from all angles and have the potential to be much cheaper to manufacture than their conventional counterparts." We had a story about these LEDs last year.

2 of 122 comments (clear)

  1. Re:so what by Bearpaw · · Score: 5
    Yea, that's great, but when will they be on the market for the average jo to buy one?

    Last September.

    From the article: "The first phone to hit the market with an organic light-emitting diode display is Motorola's $300 Timeport P8767, which went on sale last September."

  2. Because... by hey! · · Score: 5

    color increases the information density of a display. Take a good road map and photocopy it in black and white. It is still usable, but much less so. For PDA mapping, color is essential, since so much more data must be crammed into less area.

    When used simply as decoration color can be a problem. Used with restraint it has excellent applications, such as the simple way blue and purple underlined text are used to represent links on a web page. Of course if the text is spangled with random color and typographic oddities then color capability would be a drawback, because its just one more distracting miscue.

    --
    Post may contain irony: discontinue use if experiencing mood swings, nausea or elevated blood pressure.