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  • nathanddrews - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    That's great - whatever helps drive down the price of OLEDs!
  • Alistair - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    It's hard to get excited after they announced a $5000 22 inch monitor. If they can't make a 144hz 1440p (or even 1080p) for less than $1000, they may as well not bother.
  • quiksilvr - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    If people had your attitude nothing would get cheaper. You have to start low volume high cost then over time the prices will drop. Remember back in 2004-2005 when the first 50" 1080P TV came out for over $10,000? People thought that it would never catch on and it was crazy. Now you can get a 50" 4K TV for literally 1/50th of that price.
  • Alistair - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    My attitude? OLED is nothing new. We've had many before, we have TVs and we have the Dell monitor that also released for a lower price. I just don't have any reason to believe that JOLED will release a <1000 OLED monitor for gaming.
  • Alexvrb - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    Agreed, OLED price and performance hasn't been advancing as much as I had hoped in recent years, especially for larger displays. Heck, even among smaller displays OLED isn't perfect. Look at the HP Reverb... they went with LCD and achieved massively higher subpixel density vs similarly priced OLED competitors, eliminating the screen door effect entirely.

    So it's like OK, they've got their advantages and large cheap OLED displays are nice in theory, but I'm not going to wait. Someone else can eat the "early" adopter prices for the next half decade.
  • StevoLincolnite - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    I think skipping OLED entirely is probably what I will do... And wait for Micro-LED to catch on.
  • FXi - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    Problem is that micro-led brings a whole host of problems with it, not the least of which is that it's vastly more expensive to manufacture than any prior technology. And for those of us who remember how "fast" OLED was going to take over the world back decades ago, I tend to read those "it's right around the corner" prognostications with significantly more doubt nowadays.
  • rhysiam - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    I see where you're coming from, but 55" LG 4K OLEDs can easily be had new for $1700, which is less than current premium gaming monitors and competitive with mid range LCD TVs. 1440p OLED phones are reasonably priced and again, competitive with high end LCDs. Beyond burn-in concerns (which admittedly are significant in the monitor space!) there is no reason I can see why OLED monitors need to remain an ultra-premium option. Surely it's just a matter of time and early/adopter tax before OLED monitors are price competitive in the mid-high end monitor space?
  • FXi - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    I back up your comment in a sense. The news for JOLED is now irrelevant as they are pricing themselves in the stratosphere. That's ok if it works for them. But for most readers, we're never going to touch these products outside of a tradeshow.
  • Samus - Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - link

    OLED may be nothing new but producing it with modern pixel density is a technical challenge. Most OLED displays have historically has incredibly large pixels (as in dot-matrix replacements or large-format media screens) or were tiny screens where they made sense for power savings or their contrast ratio (such as in smartwatches)

    The fact LG can make 77" 4K OLED TV's for $4000 is a scaling marvel.
  • FXi - Friday, April 12, 2019 - link

    I agree. If this is just to make more $5k monitors good luck.
  • zodiacfml - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    Yes. At first, I was wary of OLED for longevity especially for these applications. However, I discovered that LCD panels has degradation issues too now that my one LCD monitor is more than 10 yrs old now. There is no exact term for this but it appears as fungi growth on the screen.
    In one of the forums, one mentioned that it could be the liquid in the LCD is escaping. It makes sense as my monitor has this unusual, chemical/electronic like smell.
  • FreckledTrout - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    Shouldn't they rename to POLED?
  • TristanSDX - Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - link

    Good choice. For now they released 21 inch panel, and it seems that Asus have exclusivity for selling monitors with these panels, and is grabbing hefty money (5000$). With new factory JOLED will release their own monitors, and avoid to pay huge taxes for Asus or others.
  • eastcoast_pete - Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - link

    This reads like a JOLED press release (or is one) . While it's interesting, I'd like some helpful background along the lines of are the OLEDs made using the new tech brighter, do they have better efficiency, are they more resistant to burn-in etc. As somebody who doesn't own any part of JOLED, that information would actually matter.
  • digitalgriffin - Thursday, April 11, 2019 - link

    I agree. OLED while massively superior in terms of content and motion blur is
    1) Still unproven given reports of burn-in which affects some ~15% on average (IIRC)
    2) Cost too much
    3) Is limited to it's potential brightness. 1000 nits is a pipe dream for OLED.

    It's why I went with FALD LCD. I know it's inferior. But I'm not paying the premium or risking burn in issues.

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