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Organic Screens, Coming Soon

Posted by timothy on from the brighter-futures dept.

InfiniteWaitState writes: "Lighter weight laptops may soon be more affordable and have better displays ... Forget LCD, according to this article in The Economist, soon OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) will be in mass production." These organic screens keep getting promised, but this article says that at least 30 companies now have plans to produce them, and that Sony has some biggish plans for TVs as well as computer screens, as well as a 13" demo model to show off.

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  1. Blue color life expectancy??? by Bryan+Andersen · · Score: 5

    Have they solved the problems with blue OLEDs having a much reduced life expectancy. Last numbers I heard were on the orders of 1000-2000 hours use before fading to much.

  2. Re:Backlights by Dr_Cheeks · · Score: 5
    That's OLED - the LE is short for Light Emmitting, so these devices don't need a backlight since they produce their own light. From what I recall, they're substantially brighter than a typical LCD screen too, so they'd work better outdoors. And they consume less power than a backlit LCD too.

    However, if you're wanting something that changes colour but isn't illuminated you're going to have to look elsewhere I'm afraid - these don't work like LCDs. Hope this clears things up a bit.

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  3. Process Info, answering my own Question. by Electrawn · · Score: 5

    Dug around, found a site which has pictures of the process.