“Thanks to display technology, the world is going flat. No, it’s not deflating, nor was Columbus wrong (or at least not entirely). It’s our desktop displays that are getting flat– buyers have decided that flatter is better, and flat-screen sales have gone through the roof. How did this happen, and what impact might these developments have on your future purchases?” Interesting article at ExtremeTech.
Technology Update on LCD Monitors
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Wassup with those OLED displays and e-paper and when do we all get holographic displays? Interesting stuff indeed.
I still don’t know why there aren’t any plain vanilla LED (not OLED) displays available. I thought that the only stumbling block was that we couldn’t produce the blue LED’s in the past but I’m pretty sure that’s been taken care of now. (Perhaps there’s just no *mass* production yet?)
The way I’ve understood it, once LED flat panels hit the market they’ll just blow everything else out of the water. Super low power consuption, high brightness, wide viewing angle, vastly simpler construction that todays TFT flat panels. But where are they?
the color is also flat on those LCD screens. I’m not going to switch my 19 inch CRT for a smaller more expensive LCD with weak color
…buyers have decided that flatter is better, and flat-screen sales have gone through the roof.
I’ll bet the reason sales have “gone through the roof” is that prices, at least for the 15″ models, have finally come down to almost realistic levels. I was recently able to pick up an NEC 1530V with some rebates & online coupons from Staples.com that put the final price just under $300. It’s a great monitor, and good-quality TFT Active Matrix LCDs have always been easier on my approaching-middle-age eyes than any CRT (but I will admit color reproduction isn’t as nice a a good CRT).