What happened to MicroLED ? Sooner Apple moves off Samsung OLED, better of Apple and iPhone users. Apple needs to control it's destiny for every component goes into it's products.
Why? Apple has had zero problems with the OLED displays they've gotten from Samsung.
What happened to MicroLED ? Sooner Apple moves off Samsung OLED, better of Apple and iPhone users. Apple needs to control it's destiny for every component goes into it's products.
It’s still coming. Mini-LED is basically a transitional or in-between step.
MicroLED is essentially where each pixel has its own individual LED backlight behind it. Today’s LED LCDs have one LED backlight for all the pixels, all 3, 6, 12 million of them. The Pro XDR display has about 576 LED backlights arrayed behind the pixels, lighting up 35k pixels each. This rumored iPad and MBP miniLED has 10,000 LED backlights arrayed behind the pixels, so about 600 to 700 pixels for each LED backlight. That would be a square of about 25x25 pixels per backlight, or about 3 x 3 mm at 200 PPI.
As the technology gets further, it’ll be down to 4x4 or 2x2 pixels, and eventually just 1. So like OLED, but with less risk for organic polymer degradation (burn-in, nonuniform colors, et al), and hopefully good bye to Pentile.
MicroLED will be immune to burn in since it's not using an organic compound. Personally, I can't wait for MicroLED to become mainstream. Both my OLED TV's have burn in. On one TV, the burn in is really bad. I did see Samsung's MicroLED on display and I was quite impressed. Unfortunately we are still some years away before this technology is affordable. I believe Samsung is releasing MicroLED TV's next year, but they are going to cost in the tens of thousands of dollars. The biggest hurdle for MicroLED from my understanding is the very expensive manufacturing process.
The fact that LCD is still improving itself and even competitive against OLED is extraordinary. OLED monitors were never successful and they're just starting on laptops this year. Maybe the LCD will stay on personal computers until MicroLED becomes mainstream, where OLED will barely take off.
I’m glad it’s not going to be just OLED from now on. 0LED is giving me a slight headache, due to the refresh rate, that is still visible, especially at lower brightness. It’s prominent enough on a small iPhone XS for my sensitive eyes, but an 0LED on my work computer would be really tough to work with for more than an hour at a time. I think LCD displays in general have a much more “real presence”, a “calmer nature”, due to the fact that they’re continuously emitting light, rather than flickering. Gonna have to learn more about miniLED now. Is it continuously emitting light, or flickering/ flashing/ refreshing like OLED?
Drat, thought this was Apple ramping up on Micro LED. Mini LED appears to just be more, smaller backlight zones. An improvement, but LCD is still light filtering technology and will never beat direct emissive technology like CRTs, Plasmas, OLED or Micro LED.
Can't wait for someone to figure out how to mass produce Micro LED displays. My plasma is chugging along and if I needed to I'd readily replace it with an OLED, but if I could go straight to Micro LED that would be better still
Drat, thought this was Apple ramping up on Micro LED. Mini LED appears to just be more, smaller backlight zones. An improvement, but LCD is still light filtering technology and will never beat direct emissive technology like CRTs, Plasmas, OLED or Micro LED.
Can't wait for someone to figure out how to mass produce Micro LED displays. My plasma is chugging along and if I needed to I'd readily replace it with an OLED, but if I could go straight to Micro LED that would be better still
Let's leave CRTs in the dust, thanks. In terms of picture quality, OLED can be worse than IPS.
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I think LCD displays in general have a much more “real presence”, a “calmer nature”, due to the fact that they’re continuously emitting light, rather than flickering. Gonna have to learn more about miniLED now. Is it continuously emitting light, or flickering/ flashing/ refreshing like OLED?
Can't wait for someone to figure out how to mass produce Micro LED displays. My plasma is chugging along and if I needed to I'd readily replace it with an OLED, but if I could go straight to Micro LED that would be better still