Re: Good laptop display (OT)

[Arthur Entlich <artistic-1@xxxxxxx>]

I had no idea this technology was getting so close to "prime time".

I might just wait for this product to become available.  I've read a 
fair bit about it, and I suspect eventually cereal boxes will be playing 
videos on there fronts as we go through the grocery store, as costs decline.

I envy the fact that you actually get to see this stuff going through 
its evolution and know what's coming.

Art

Kennedy McEwen wrote:


>>
> 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.  ;-)


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