Dexter Filmore wrote:
Well, OLEDs for one are Very Very Expensive (TM), a recently produced Display at something around 8" was 7000$ iirc.
And this was the argument against LCDs vs. CRTs, too. Economics only gets better for new technologies.
And, they can't be *that* expensive or you couldn't use them in phones. So, this is likely a yield issue at larger sizes just like LCDs originally had.
Plus, they don't last long. Someone claimed 50000h recently but I doubt that since everyone else got 5000 up to now at best.
This is the big crux. The blue elements had a lifetime of about 5000 hours (the red and green elements were fine). However, several companies have filed patents on ways to extend that and all of them seem to be indicating the 30000-50000 hour range.
There's not a single desktop monitor replacement around 19" available, so I'd actually do call this vaporware.
As I pointed out, they are in phones *now* as opposed to any other non-LCD display technology. That's a whole lotta production to dismiss as vapor.
One interesting difference tho: they're working on it while SEDs are mainly struggling against company politics, they could well start producing while with OLEDs there simply are some tech problems yet to overcome.
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