On Tuesday 16 October 2007 09:03:14 Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Canon and Toshiba were the first to develop this technique, unfortunately > > they got tangled up in company politics till Canon dropped out and don't > > really wanna launch yet since the warehouses are full of plasmas and > > TFTs. Some voices have been heard uttering "vaporware" since first > > products were already announced for 2005, now talk is of 2009. The day > > still has to come. > > One thing you forgot to mention are OLED's. Organic LED devices, unlike > SED/FED, are not vapor. In fact, quite a few new phones now use OLED > screens rather than LCD screens. > > -a
Well, OLEDs for one are Very Very Expensive (TM), a recently produced Display at something around 8" was 7000$ iirc. Plus, they don't last long. Someone claimed 50000h recently but I doubt that since everyone else got 5000 up to now at best. There's not a single desktop monitor replacement around 19" available, so I'd actually do call this vaporware. 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. Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
