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Re:OLED Screen So Flexible and Thin it Blows in the Wind by ardit33 on Friday October 31, 2008 @09:44PM (#350508)
I think the most important thing it is cost, and how cheap they are.

what if they were cheap enough to produce to be replacable.

If you can just stick on a display like a wall paper, in any surface, and if it was cheap, people wouldn't mind replacing them every 10,000 hrs. of usage. (If you watch 10 hrs a day, that's almost 3 years).

Re:OLED Screen So Flexible and Thin it Blows in the Wind by jumper on Saturday November 01, 2008 @12:08AM (#350568)
I wonder if OLEDs break down more or less independent of usage anyways like how a lithium ion battery can wear out faster from use, but is still wearing out even if you don't use it.
Re:OLED Screen So Flexible and Thin it Blows in the Wind by pmjordan on Saturday November 01, 2008 @07:11AM (#350670)
That's certainly the impression I've taken away from reading a bunch of articles on OLED displays. The failure rate is apparently still high enough (at decent yields) that they're not practical yet, and unlike back-lit LCD displays, individual pixels degrade at different rates, which is pretty bad for obvious reasons.
Re:OLED Screen So Flexible and Thin it Blows in the Wind by jumper on Saturday November 01, 2008 @11:21AM (#350749)
Yeah, I think blue breaks down the fastest color wise. I suppose it might be because the emitted light would have higher energy than red or green.