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For the past few years OLED has stolen most of the spotlight as the next generation technology set to outperform current plasma and LCD displays in terms of both energy efficiency and picture quality. Although OLED is barely out of the blocks, QD Vision and LG Display have just announced a joint development agreement focusing on electroluminescent quantum dot LED (QLED) nanotechnology, which promises to sweep all display technologies before it, including OLED. QLED promises energy efficient displays that offer brighter, richer colors, can be printed on ultra-thin, transparent or flexible substrates and manufactured cheaply.
I still want LASER..
cant afford it..but would STILL LOVE IT.
the Life cycle is very good, and the colors are GREAT.
Smallest screen they make is 55″
Is this an actual picture of the technology?
If so what is the size scale of the above panel?
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Just as television has improved the technology.
Almost everyone, (including welfare recipients), seems to now have a fancy HD television flat panel proudly mounted high in their living room, so anyone driving by their home can see what they are watching.
Unfortunately, despite the improvements in the displays, the programming is thoroughly in the garbage can.
Maury on an OLED, anyone? Or Judge fill-in-name-here? How about Dancing With the Brats?
What a load of shit is available.
Me? I have a perfectly operating 20(!) year old Sony 27″ TV, hardly used any more.
I am a professional television news photographer. I can assure you, local news is the stupidest crap going.
#4 Faxon – I really like my HD tv. Most non-hd channels look like crap but the HD channels like National Geographic really pop. I agree that all reality-based tv is for the lowest denominator but whatever…
#3
Dude, you’re a few 0s and 1s from the code that opens a wormhole!
#4,
yes I have an old TV I just stored away.
And you cant GET(easily) the old style TV anymore. And the NEW ones cost 2-10 times as much. And the life of LCD ISNT that great.
“QLED promises energy efficient displays that offer brighter, richer colors, can be printed on ultra-thin, transparent or flexible substrates and manufactured cheaply.”
Um, so EXACTLY what OLED provides, right.
Personally, I really get tired of hearing about all these great new technologies that are going to change our lives soon. Soon. I love tech but I wish these companies would just keep their mouths shut until they are ready to start manufacturing.
#8
Correction:
Exactly what OLED PROMISED, and is yet to deliver…
So
Qled is just another pipe dream to keep you craving for a new one…and a new one… and a new one…
OLED is the WIMAX of displays. Lots of promise but nothing will ever come of it, and will be skipped by some new technology like QLED that starts fresh and is readily accepted by the manufacturing companies.
As far as the value of having a large TV, I didn’t think that I would need or appreciate a larger screen until I got a 50″ plasma. The shows worth watching may be few and far between, but it is a completely different experience watching the shows that are worth the time. Cable TV is not worth it, paying for a few selected programs via Amazon pay-per-view is the way to go. I have a home built HTPC feeding HDMI to the big screen, movies look great, even the Netflix on demand stuff.
When my son got married, he wanted us to take his monster wide screen TV. It wouldn’t fit in his home. So it sits in our entertainment room and might have been turned on 2 or 3 times in the last couple years.
When we move, I am going to let the new home buyer take the TV for free. My worry is that they won’t accept my generous and thoughtful offer.
JB, the oppo-bobbo (to our mutual ego’s)==I WANT MY HDTV. screw mtv.
I still have my 48″ Toshiba from 25 years ago. Maybe 50% as bright but still totally watchable if you don’t need color accuracy. How can I throw out something that still “works?” If I did that, I’d have to throw out all my DAT audio stuff too.
If you have an unused HDTV==have some fun with it. Mount it where a window might be and run a screensaver of a waterfall or the grasslands of Africa or whatever virtual world that strikes your fancy: mount low and have a good fireplace or aquarium going 24/7. Interesting how your peripheral vision picks up on that sort of thing.
Cocooning. Its what the 21st Cent will be all about.
You folks who complain about the banality of TV shows should know how difficult (and expensive) it is to find people who are creative enough to come up with stimulating original material consistently week after week. Wouldn’t it be nice if all TV was “Simpsons” grade? Dream on.
Back in broadcast-only days I had a friend who was involved in TV acting/production, and it was amazing to watch a sitcom with him and listen to him predict practically everything in the plots and dialogue before it happened. Then we’d switch to another show and it was the same thing…all canned!
Lots of folks I know are addicted to this stuff, but I don’t call them dumb because they’ve apparently just been used to it for so long. When I was a child my Mom (a ‘sensitive’ artist) would not have television IN HER HOUSE…and all her kids (including me) went waaaah! Then we went over to our friend’s houses to watch.
Looking forward to the new display technologies. However, OLEDs are poised to replace LCD’s and are in mass production today for small screens.
Happy all my TV’s are wall mounted but I want thinner, lower power and cheaper so I can replace my photos with active displays.
@14
Finding creative people to make good content wouldn’t be so hard if the creative people didn’t get screwed by media corporation execs over and over. And if execs didn’t think that there is only money to be made with crap content for very low IQ audiences.
Luc #16 & Softie #14
Just try to put a nice, intelligent show in TV and see how long it lasts. Dramas seem to be able to stand up but comedies just go away UNLESS they appeal to the lowest common denom. There are exceptopns, sure but then, have you seen Outsourced? It’ll probably be a hit.
If you really want to get depressed about the quality of programming, remember that it’s not a projection of society but rather a reflection of.
Sure that’s nice, but when will the eggheads produce a display with a “unity” pixel- one dot capable of displaying all of the millions of possible colors with a single dot instead of the current triad of red, green and blue.
Well?
Looks like I’ll be keeping my old Sony SD Wega set for awhile.
#19 Rich.
You know the old saying? Once you go HD/Tivo you never go back.
I am a spoiled HD bitch. Loudly complaining that ESPN 2 did not Broadcast yesterday’s OSU ND woman’s soccer match in HD??? C’mon ESPN!!!
How ’bout my reaction. I did not even watch soccer (Woman’s) until I bought and HD set.
Toss the Vega and head to Costco, you won’t sorry. Gained 9 lbs since plasma was hooked to the blu-ray.
I watch everything on my laptop LCD or, when I’m at home in Thailand, on an old 21″ CRT TV. Works fine except I have to push the buttons on the remote really hard.
#10 Have you ever actually seen an OLED display? They are fantastic.
Place an iPhone next to a Galaxy S and the OLED screen in the Galaxy is very obviously the winner. My Zune HD always gets given a second look because of the richness of its colors and the deepness of the blacks which LCD simply can’t achieve.
Sony has already demoed flexible screens.
Anyway, as the article states, this QLED thingy is still just on paper. No actual prototype let alone a product is due for at least 5 years.
#19 Thats what OLED does, and LCD on computer screens and most portable devices (but not TVs, we sit far enough away for it not to be noticable).
Cheaper, better image, with lower power consumption are great things.
One thing is keeping me from upgrading my LCD. From my recliner I couldn’t tell the difference: trifocals.
#11,
Sprint offers OLED android phones and ones that use WiMax 4G.
I have one, seems like it works.
OLED’s for HDTV are being held back more by the need to pay off LCD process lines than by technology at present. The few existing OLED lines are maxed out making cellphone screens.
WiMax is also here in many many places, merely rebranded.
OLEDs in large screens are a non-starter until phosphor aging issues are addressed. They will dominate small screen eventually as manufacturing scale brings down prices. Large screen is and will continue to be LED-driven LCD, even if this quantum-dot (engineered molecules that provide better point sources of color-accurate light) tech takes off, due to the sheer maturity and manufacturing base of LCD. If QLED can take advantage of existing LCD fabs without sigificant re-tooling it may have a decent chance.
Just wait. Someone will figure out how to use cuttlefish skin as a display, and we’ll hunt the poor guys to extinction.