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by jelly 719 days ago
OLED already works very well for TVs and other big screens; MicroLED would need to push into that market and prove its value against OLED. And OLED tech will not stand still while MicroLED catches up.

MicroLED needs market niches with lots of manufacturing volume to scale up and improve or they'll never get to a position where they can challenge OLED.
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MBCook 719 days ago
OLED are fantastic, I have one. But they just can’t get as bright and I’m not sure you’re ever going to solve the degradation issue.

You’re right the technology won’t stand still, but will it be able to match what MicroLED can do with at same price?

Apple just used an amazing OLED on the new iPad Pros. But they had to stack two panels to do that and obviously it’s not TV sized. Maybe something like that could compete with MicroLED better but the price is really going to be up there.

Plus you don’t have to start with TV sized things. I remember OLED starting in small display applications like front panel displays for some electronics. I’d imagine production MicroOED would be similar.

One of the issues Apple has is that they use extremely high-quality displays with VERY tiny pixels. You can’t just make the Apple Watch display significantly worse, people will notice.

But there are tons of consumer electronics out there they don’t need such high resolution displays. Things where it could be a good option early on.

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cubefox 719 days ago
> Apple just used an amazing OLED on the new iPad Pros. But they had to stack two panels to do that and obviously it’s not TV sized. Maybe something like that could compete with MicroLED better but the price is really going to be up there.

MicroLED screens are much more expensive than any OLED screen. MicroLED TVs are currently sold for more than 100.000 USD.

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carterschonwald 719 days ago
Maybe automotive display panels? I’m assuming that microled would have similar dynamic range to oled but less screen aging? Automotive stuff needs to be incredibly durable!
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nick238 719 days ago
Automotive displays you'll be viewing from <1 m, so the dot pitch needs to be higher than a TV, but at the same time it's not usually as demanding graphically, so chunkier pixels OK?

MicroLEDs are a long ways away from being used for smartphones due to pitch.

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