Comments on: OLED Monitors

By: PC Monitors

PC Monitors — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:24:27 +0000

We are all in 2011 and all still waiting. The latest information presented in the article set an optimistic estimate as production lines opening up in 2012 for ‘IT products’ which will most likely be limited to the high end. It could well be 2013-2015 before things start getting ‘interesting’ as far as OLED PC monitors are concerned but I doubt we’ll get ‘like for like but better’ replacements for our current LCDs until much later this decade. We had asked LG earlier this year about the state of their 31 inch OLED TV model, though, and they did say they hoped to get it out in 2011. So far that hasn’t happened but really it’s just hopes and speculation at this stage.

By: hosa

hosa — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:17:19 +0000

im in 2011 and still waiting..

By: OLED computer monitors; where are we now? - PC Monitors

OLED computer monitors; where are we now? - PC Monitors — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:48:41 +0000

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By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:12:53 +0000

Wow, amazing article. This site has a wealth of knowledge. Thanks.

By: PC Monitors

PC Monitors — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:31:55 +0000

An audacious and thus far unfounded statement. Billions of dollars and many, many man hours that go into research and development (by Samsung and LG in particular) disagrees with you. There were some people who thought LCD would be obsolete by 2005, but they were very wrong.

By: Joe Bob

Joe Bob — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:18:39 +0000

I think the OLED will be obsolete by 2015.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:22:19 +0000

Actually, you can make a transparent surface turn black depending on substances used behind them. Look, for instance, at transition sunglasses. So whoever said this can’t display black is dead wrong-one would have to have a reactive surface that becomes black under the LEDs themselves. This of course would be difficult to implement in a tv. But it should be possible but would probably not save anything on power compared to existing LCD panels.

By: PC Monitors

PC Monitors — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:23:24 +0000

Since OLEDs create ‘colour’ by direct emission of red, green and blue light the lowest values of these (i.e. in an attempt to produce black) would simply lead to zero light emission. We did specify a few particular applications in which they could still be useful but for computer monitors and TVs? Nah. Will be interesting to see what kind of innovation(s) they can come up with to to enable the blocking of light – a filter, such as an LCD matrix, is one possibility.

By: vlad

vlad — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:53:28 +0000

I think transparent monitors would have a very limited applications, if you read carefully OLED cells only can EMIT light but not block it, so you can’t make them “black out” , you can only make them stop emitting.
Notice on that video of transparent LCD, all black areas are transparent, would you really want this to happen??? LCD on the other hand can block light.. maybe it could be used in conjunction?

For example, lcd matrix would sit behind OLED matrix and control opacity?

By: PC Monitors

PC Monitors — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:34:57 +0000

'PHOLED' stands for phophorescent organic light emitting diode. Special materials are used that emit light in this highly efficient form of OLED (roughly 4 times as efficient as standard fluorescent OLEDs). Samsung is one of the main companies interest in OLED (and indeed PHOLED) materials for use in displays - they currently have a contract with UDC (Universal Display Corporation) to produce red (and soon green) PHOLED materials. Wikipedia has some decent information on PHOLED.