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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by mattlutze on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:17AM (#10835149)
10 years is quite a long time.

Today 10 years ago we didn't yet have Twitter, for example. BlueRay was only a year old. I imagine many folks were still looking at CRT televisions as something to buy for their family.

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by dogma1138 on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:27AM (#10835203)
Look at the TTM for OLED screens or flexible screens for that matter... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_display POC to product is 10-15 year Prototype/Concept to product is usually 5-8 years.

Philips had a roller display demoing in 2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollable_display But we are still not close to it being a product.

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by mattlutze on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:48AM (#10843806)
I wrote a few college research papers on commercial OLED tech back in 2004... that one never got enough love, though the price fixing and profiteering the big display makers were doing in the 00's makes me think that it's possible they squashed some of that advancement to try and milk their LCD profits as much as possible.
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