LCDs have defects due to the failure of the Thin Film Transistors that control the state of individual pixels. Given that OLED displays will be using identical TFTs there should be a similar (or worse, due to failure of the OLEds themselves) rate of defects.
However - when a TFT fails in an LCD it gives a light point, wheras when one fails in an OLED display it will give a dark point, which is much less annoying.
They are better than LCDs. Main reasons are (IMO)
1: they use less energy - backlit LC displays have to have a powerful backlight on constantly - even though only a small proportion of this light makes it through the LC layer. OLEDs are only lit when they need to be viewed. Energy consumption is a major concern in most mobile devices.
2: they can be viewed from any angle (up to 360 degrees if they are sandwiched between 2 layers of amorphorous silicon) - something LCDs still haven't got to grips with.
I personally have been using a hellva lot of genes for the last 19 years and fail to see how anyone could patent one of them. Patenting a use of that gene, I can understand although I may not always agree with the holders of those patents.
If anyone out there wants to fight against the holders of gene patents, get in touch with me - I can't claim to have used them all but I've got quite a collection.
I can understand that the coats would have different patterns. Surely the exact progression of cell division in the womb must be fairly chaotic. This does however raise the question, do identical twins actually have identical fingerprints? It works wonders in (mostly) crappy literature but is it true?
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LCDs have defects due to the failure of the Thin Film Transistors that control the state of individual pixels. Given that OLED displays will be using identical TFTs there should be a similar (or worse, due to failure of the OLEds themselves) rate of defects. However - when a TFT fails in an LCD it gives a light point, wheras when one fails in an OLED display it will give a dark point, which is much less annoying.
They are better than LCDs. Main reasons are (IMO) 1: they use less energy - backlit LC displays have to have a powerful backlight on constantly - even though only a small proportion of this light makes it through the LC layer. OLEDs are only lit when they need to be viewed. Energy consumption is a major concern in most mobile devices. 2: they can be viewed from any angle (up to 360 degrees if they are sandwiched between 2 layers of amorphorous silicon) - something LCDs still haven't got to grips with.
I personally have been using a hellva lot of genes for the last 19 years and fail to see how anyone could patent one of them. Patenting a use of that gene, I can understand although I may not always agree with the holders of those patents. If anyone out there wants to fight against the holders of gene patents, get in touch with me - I can't claim to have used them all but I've got quite a collection.
I can understand that the coats would have different patterns. Surely the exact progression of cell division in the womb must be fairly chaotic.
This does however raise the question, do identical twins actually have identical fingerprints? It works wonders in (mostly) crappy literature but is it true?