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That is a great point. I would really love that.

Tangentially related, it reminds me that OLED has utterly failed to become a thing on the desktop, and it breaks my heart. It was a decade ago when I read that OLED was the next hot thing and it would bring unprecedented contrast and brightness to displays.

Today, I like OLED mobile phone displays.

But my Dell U3014s are disappointing crystal-over-backlight garbage. Not only that but expensive crystal-over-backlight garbage.



OLED will come. It's just now finding it's way into TVs, and still costs a fortune... When you think about it, a 5" OLED screen comes in a 700 dollar phone, most PCs cost that. Not many people would be willing to pay 2000 for a laptop with an OLED screen. Some people maybe, I know I would, but most wouldn't.

I think in 2-3 years you'll see Samsung Chromebooks and Ultrabooks with OLED screens...


OLED is a thing, if you have a minimum of about $10k to drop on a small computer monitor.

See: http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/cat-oledmonitors/p...

The price will come down with time.


What I'd like to see is mobile displays that actually look good in sunlight. I think that could be the next major area of display progress.




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