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timothy
on from the patience-wearing-thin dept.
crwulff writes "The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle today is carrying a story about Kodak's newest OLED display venture. Unfortunately only a prototype to look at here but at least it is on the way in a couple years." It's worth it just for the photograph. Maybe best to hold off on a plasma TV ...
I wonder how this would work out for TVs
by
croftj
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Just think a thin lightwieght large screen T.V.
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2 to 3 years off?
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Powercntrl
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By the time this is for sale, hopefully good "old fashioned" LCD technology will be more affordable. I'm already using a 15" KDS RAD-5 and my friends are like "Wow, a flat panel, those are still too expensive for me." I like my flat panel though... Once you go flat, you never go back. Everything else just looks blurry.
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Since they are projecting a market in 2-3 years, I guess I should start saving now. I wonder if this will be able to make practical (more or less) the wall screens that were in "Total Recall"?
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Cost, cost, cost
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f97tosc
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The exact performance of this technology is quite insignigicant next to what it will cost to mass-produce - and this we are not being told.
If it looks like shit but is half as expensive as normal flat screens I am sure it will find a significant market. If it looks superb but is ten times as expensive to produce it will never happen.
Moderators, how can the first person to express a desire for a product be marked as Redundant?
I think these are a neat product, but I don't see it replacing my CRT anytime soon (even after its release) for various reasons. It is still so long until production and a lot can happen, it might as well be vaporware.
-- Murphy was an optimist.
Re:3-color or 4-color?
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MyHair
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Do you have any sources for that?
Frankly it sounds like BS to me.
Solid objects (like ink-printed paper) reflect light and therfore have subtractive coloring. The CMY inks don't absorb enough light to make black well, or at least they're hard to combine that way.
Lights, like these OLEDs, are additive color. I can't imagine them not being able to make white.
I've played with colored light bulbs in a darkroom before and you can make it perfectly white pretty easily. Mixing crayons to make black doesn't seem to work, though. Same concepts as far as I can see.
These things sound interesting. There is no constant backlight, so presumably you save a lot of enery buy using just enough to make the right color and brightness instead of powering a constant white and dimming it with LCDs in front.
environmental impact
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drunken+monkey
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What is the environmental impact of manufacturing and disposing of these OLED panels? Are they safer then the current flatpanels and CRTs?
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Just think a thin lightwieght large screen T.V.
-- Many men would appreciate a woman's mind more if they could fondle it
By the time this is for sale, hopefully good "old fashioned" LCD technology will be more affordable. I'm already using a 15" KDS RAD-5 and my friends are like "Wow, a flat panel, those are still too expensive for me." I like my flat panel though... Once you go flat, you never go back. Everything else just looks blurry.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
Since they are projecting a market in 2-3 years, I guess I should start saving now. I wonder if this will be able to make practical (more or less) the wall screens that were in "Total Recall"?
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
The exact performance of this technology is quite insignigicant next to what it will cost to mass-produce - and this we are not being told.
If it looks like shit but is half as expensive as normal flat screens I am sure it will find a significant market. If it looks superb but is ten times as expensive to produce it will never happen.
Tor
I think these are a neat product, but I don't see it replacing my CRT anytime soon (even after its release) for various reasons. It is still so long until production and a lot can happen, it might as well be vaporware.
Murphy was an optimist.
Do you have any sources for that?
Frankly it sounds like BS to me.
Solid objects (like ink-printed paper) reflect light and therfore have subtractive coloring. The CMY inks don't absorb enough light to make black well, or at least they're hard to combine that way.
Lights, like these OLEDs, are additive color. I can't imagine them not being able to make white.
I've played with colored light bulbs in a darkroom before and you can make it perfectly white pretty easily. Mixing crayons to make black doesn't seem to work, though. Same concepts as far as I can see.
These things sound interesting. There is no constant backlight, so presumably you save a lot of enery buy using just enough to make the right color and brightness instead of powering a constant white and dimming it with LCDs in front.
What is the environmental impact of manufacturing and disposing of these OLED panels? Are they safer then the current flatpanels and CRTs?
narbey
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