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ksec ◴[13 Jul 25 17:15 UTC] No.44551894[source]▶

LCD on paper you see lots of drawbacks, in practice modern state of the art LCD for TV is pretty damn good. We will soon have RGB LED Backlight LCD with WHVA+ Panel that is about as wide angle as IPS, 95%+ REC 2020 colour, and 1-2ms response time.

Phosphorescent blue OLEDs should reduce current OLED display energy usage by 20-30%. But it still seems to be way off for phones and mass usage.

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hinterlands ◴[13 Jul 25 17:37 UTC] No.44552032[source]▶

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I think it's fairly common for technologies to get really good just as they're becoming obsolete. Vacuum tubes, CRTs, optical disks, photographic film... in fact, they're often in some respects better than the early generations of the technology that replaces them.

But OLEDs just have too many advantages where it actually matters. Much lower power consumption, physically more compact (no need for backlight layers), etc.

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1. bitwize ◴[14 Jul 25 00:45 UTC] No.44555266[source]▶

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For me, OLEDs fall into a category exemplified by Anton Gudim's "YES, BUT" comic series.

YES, OLEDs consume less power, offer truer color reproduction, and are physically more compact.

BUT, they are prone to CRT-like burn-in.

SSDs, the same thing.

YES, SSDs are much faster and immune to mechanical failure.

BUT, they tend not to last as long as HDDs due to limited write cycles, and their price per GiB is still much higher.

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