Re: Good laptop display (OT)

[Kennedy McEwen <rkm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <FAEBJHPJNNGCAGDNGLNPGEEKEIAA.gsellani@accesscom.com>, gary 
<gsellani@accesscom.com> writes
>The big ass Apple Cinema display has notable color difference as you move
>your head. It's not for me.
>
>I recall from SGHT magazine that a representative from the Hitachi-fujitsu
>joint-venture plasma company said that plasma will be competitive in cost
>with CRT technology by 2003. Plasma has come a long way. Blacks are now
>black, not a green tinted gray. They have a variant of plasma (twice the
>resolution) that will be targeted toward computer displays.
>
The new display technology that is causing all the rage in research 
worldwide at the moment is Organic Light Emitting Displays, also known 
as Polymer LEDs and Organic Electro Luminescent Displays.  The two main 
sources of materials are Kodak and Cambridge Display Technology, 
although both have licence agreements with other companies for volume 
display manufacture.  There is quite a lot of detail about them already 
available on the web, but they are not yet at the stage of a 17" screen 
- although I have many 852(x3 colour)x600 micro devices in use at work.

Just like CRTs, OLEDs emit, rather than transmit or reflect like LCDs, 
so they can be viewed from all angles without any change of colour, tint 
or apparent brightness.  They can be printed (literally, CDT have 
licenced Epson to use inkjet printing technology to manufacture 
displays!) onto glass substrates or even flexible surfaces and they can 
be wafer thin - even transparent!  With only one surface, no backlight 
and a simple manufacturing process they should also be very cheap in 
production.

Having used some of these devices in my work for some considerable time, 
and knowing the rate that the technology has developed to date, I
am fairly confident that LCD displays have only a couple of years left 
in them.

I bet that OLEDs will have replaced LCDs long before digital cameras 
replace film.  ;-)
-- 
Kennedy
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.
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