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Future iPad Pro and MacBook Pro Models Rumored to Feature Ultra-Bright Double-Stack OLED Displays
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If we’re talking 2025 then I really hope it’s microLED. Seems like the holy grail of display technology. I’ve been waiting for it for so long. I think the last time I brought it up someone quoted my post calling it vaporware but microLED displays both small and large have already been produced — some even commercially available. We are just waiting for the manufacturing process to improve to the point that it can be produced reliably enough and in high enough volume for devices like Apple products.
Says who?
MicroLED TVs | MicroLED-Info
MicroLED technology is a next-generation emissive display technology that promises highly efficient and bright displays that offer superior image quality with infinite contrast and a wide color gamut.MicroLED can be applied to displays of many kinds - from small displays for smartwatches and AR...
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MicroLED TVs | MicroLED-Info
MicroLED technology is a next-generation emissive display technology that promises highly efficient and bright displays that offer superior image quality with infinite contrast and a wide color gamut.MicroLED can be applied to displays of many kinds - from small displays for smartwatches and AR...www.microled-info.com
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Plenty of graphs like that for OLED appeared during the 2000s...
Correct. But iPads with PWM flickering. Maybe read that sentence again: "...you can have PWM flickering without OLED, as the iPad Pro so wonderfully demonstrates."
While I mistakenly called it c1 instead of c9 it do not change the fact that after 2 years its already suffering from burn in and a green blotch. But hey just focus on a number if that makes you feel better.
Still waiting for the source vs handwaving on their prediction that nobody will have microLED TVs until late this decade.
Well, people could go and get a microLED TV today if they are willing to hand over $100k to Samsung, but if we are just considering TVs that the average enthusiast can afford (likely $5k or under) then I do think it will be much later into this decade when they will arrive.
OLED TVs at a decent size finally launched in 2013 with 1080p models from LG and Samsung (for about $10k) . The first OLED TVs that started shipping in half decent numbers were the LG 6-series in 2016(B6, curved C6, soundbar-including E6 and premium G6).
Consider this historical data on OLED display shipments : https://www.statista.com/statistics/991181/worldwide-oled-tv-shipments-screen-size/ This shows that total OLED TV shipments approached 1 million in 2016 and crossed the 1 million mark in 2017.
By comparison consider this forecast for microLED TV shipments (3rd figure down) https://www.microled-info.com/image-galleries/microled-market-charts This shows that microLED TVs are not expected to get close to 1 million shipments until 2025 and then cross the 1 million mark in 2026.
What’s funny is that you use ‘finally’. There were people, I believe including on this very site, that a year or two before that were making the same predictions that OLED TVs would take another XX years to happen if they were going to happen at all. Same thing people are now doing with microLED. I’m not sure why people feel the need to understate the case for upcoming tech and why it won’t happen, or won’t happen in a shorter timeline.
Going from the 11" Sony XEL-1 at $2500 to a 55" OLED at the same price took about 8 years.
The XEL-1 has about the same pixel density as an 48" LG OLED, so it at least demonstrated the viability of the technology for a consumer product.
With MicroLED, there are only displays above 100" and above $100,000, with much lower pixel densities than required.
I have no doubt that microLED will arrive and will be a fantastic technology, but I am very hesitant about the timelines. As has been pointed out above, the initial Sony 11" and LG 15" OLED screens in 2007-2008 probably raised expectations that general consumer OLED TVs were just a few years away, but in reality it took until 2013 for a consumer TV to arrive (and that cost $10k). microLED is likely at the same stage - commercial demonstrators are available for a price but there remain many engineering challenges to overcome before the average consumer can pick up a 65" display for under $3k. One advantage microLED has is that I think it is just the engineering challenge. In 2007, OLED still had some chemistry/material development to be done to realise high efficiency/stable materials.