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Interesting. The purported specs of the technology are competitive with OLED contrast ratios (deep blacks) and response times. Would this tech have been less prone to burn-in than OLED's are?

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I expect it would be on par with CRT tech in both respects, just for also having electron-excited phosphors. It seems OLED + everything ultimately competes with CRT for contrast/color/speed-- rather like programming languages' best-case compute performance usually being "nn% as fast as C." The least optimal thing about the image (for me) was it not being perfectly rectangular and stable, while everything else nails that right down, including this.

It is pretty neat... the market turning away is roughly as disappointing as a phosphor-based flat display is appealing. I feel like its reduced complexity and power usage could make it ideal for HMDs-- if/f it shrinks well. And probably nobody cares. :shrug:

Presumably microLED will be the holy grail. When I first heard of OLED it was another 20 years or so before it started to really show up. So, I'd expect microLED to be making waves in 2030-2040 lol

I hadn't heard of that, but having daydreamed about "just a huge array of LEDs on a single die", I hope it turns out.

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