Haven't you heard?
OLEDs are gearing up to take over the display world, making your fancy LCD something you'll wrap fish with. Taking up the point in the quest for world domination is Sony's
XEL-1, which we admit puts out a great, albeit small, picture. Lab tests by Tech-On, however, show the 11-inch display has an appetite for power that belies its diminutive size. Check out the link for some insight to the wizardry that makes the XEL-1 work, including ramping down panel brightness after turn-on and insertion of "blanking" frames. But eyebrows at the lab arched a little when the unit ate up 28.4-Watts to produce a pure white image. While that figure won't send your electric meter into Whirling Dervish mode, the CEO of
Toshiba says that at sizes beyond 30-inches, OLEDs consume 2 - 3 times more juice than LCDs. These kind of challenges are nothing new to emerging technology, and we're sure manufacturers will get things
under control; but for now (in an increasingly "green" world), there are still hurdles.
[Via
SmartHouse]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ken @ Mar 19th 2008 8:23PM
Nibbler FTW!
ehisforadam @ Mar 20th 2008 11:31AM
That's exactly what I thought when I saw that.
syphix @ Mar 19th 2008 8:29PM
Wait...I thought the whole benefit of OLED's was no backlight...i.e., less power usage. 2-3 times more juice than LCD's?? What happened??
"A significant benefit of OLED displays over traditional liquid crystal displays (LCDs) is that OLEDs do not require a backlight to function. Thus they draw far less power"
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED
creepinshadow @ Mar 19th 2008 8:43PM
They use chinese OLDEDs
+ sony has a ultra secret contract with the electro companies that u dont know about. (PS3 also is a sucker!)
shawnmos @ Mar 20th 2008 2:00AM
love the pic
Allen @ Mar 20th 2008 1:23PM
Right now OLEDs take more energy, I guess, especially when on a pure white image. But under normal use where each pixel can draw the exact amount of power for the color they need, expect less.
And expect that the technology still has a ways to go. As of right now, the least power consuming technology is between CRT and LCD. LCD's smaller than 32 inches take less power than CRTs. But above 32 inches, CRTs use less than LCDs. That is, until you have to stick a second CRT into the monitor to make the size work. Then CRT's take more again.