An LED monitor is NOT an OLED monitor

[Jay A. Kelley]

As the resident "tech idiot" I wanted to point out something to my fellow idiots that I found worth repeating.

A lot of companies are coming out with LED monitors. This is a good thing, but beware it's NOT the ground breaking technology you've been reading about from SONY. That's called OLED. And it's amazing.

I think some companies are "playing" with words so the less tech weenie types (Like myself) would become confused and purchase one thing when they thought they were getting another.

OLED technology will indeed be a game changing event and it's a year away at most. Read up on it if you have not yet.

Just wanted to help out if there were others out there like me (God forbid).

One more thing: I am not saying the new LED monitors are not an improvement, I'm just saying they are not the watershed event that OLEDs are.

Hope this helps.

Jay

 

[Stephen Pruitt]

Yes, OLED is a great new technology, but it isn't the Holy Grail of display systems. . . that will have to wait until they finally perfect a low-cost pure blue laser. (Blue lasers are very expensive at present.) Once laser displays are released, however, everything else will be immediately rendered obsolete.

Nonetheless, I hereby present a link to a wonderful IEEE presentation on OLED technology:

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/cpmt/presentations/cpmt0401a.pdf

Stephen

 

[David Wyatt]

Personally I've never been confused by the two (LED & OLED) - LED monitors have been around for quite some time whereas OLEDs are much more recent. I don't think Sony or anyone else making OLEDs (Samsung, Kodak, LG etc) are intentionally trying to confuse people with the similarity in their names (OLEDs after all are also light emitting diodes so what else are you going to call them unless you made up some groovy name like "Blu-Ray"?)

 

[Jay A. Kelley]

Ok then.. It's just me.. Not the first time.

Forget I brought it up

Jay

 

[Oliver Koeppel]

RED is doing a lot with this technology. The RED EVF is based on oleds.

 

[jimhare]

Yeah, it's like when everyone thought they were getting Hi Def PVRs because they said HD (hard drive) in the name!

No, it's not just you. If it's not your field, it's easy to be misled.

 

[Mark L. Pederson]

The RED EVF is based on oleds.

source?? I'm pretty damn sure the RED EVF is NOT oled.

 

[Mike Harrington]

source?? I'm pretty damn sure the RED EVF is NOT oled.

i agree
i think if it was OLED....Red would have used that in it's marketing.....
very few displays run it...

BTW my little Sanyo xacti handheld junk camera is an OLED display....

 

[Oliver Koeppel]

Sorry guys, think you are right. I heard about oleds beeing part of RED EVF and didn´t recheck these infos.
shame on me..... ;-(

 

[Nick Shaw]

source?? I'm pretty damn sure the RED EVF is NOT oled.

IF (never stated explicitly by Red) the EVF is based on the Accuscene, then the technology used is FLCoS as described here:

http://www.accuscene.com/technology.html

 

[Mark L. Pederson]

IF (never stated explicitly by Red) the EVF is based on the Accuscene, then the technology used is FLCoS as described here:

http://www.accuscene.com/technology.html

which is NOT OLED.

http://www.displaytech.com/technology.html

 

[Nick Shaw]

which is NOT OLED.

Absolutely. I did not intend to imply that it was. I was suggesting what it seems the technology in the EVF actually might be. I would suspect the EVF uses one of these.

 

[Mark L. Pederson]

Absolutely. I did not intend to imply that it was. I was suggesting what it seems the technology in the EVF actually might be. I would suspect the EVF uses one of these.

understood. thanks for the link to Fourth Dimension - they were not on my radar.