THIS is the reason that SONY has hinted that OLED is nearly DEAD for them. As usual they are WAY ahead of the curve compared with LG and Samsung (one or both will be gone within three years) and its obvious Hisense and TCL are going to battle it out for "biggest and brightest AND mediocre" TVs. 100% guarantee SONY already have some sort of a deal with Sharp for this tech. SONY is already phasing out their current OLED line and by the end of this year they will be virtually gone at the HIGH end levels. You will see these TVs in 2025 for sure.
@@PSYCHOV3N0Mit doesn't change the fact that he is right. Transparent TVs are not even original. Panasonic displayed a transparent TV several years ago at CES. It's nothing new. And that never saw the light of day either. Or how about LG"s rollable TV? Care to tell me where that is at your local store? Or who was the market for that? Because last time I checked they only ever sold a handful to a few super rich people. Hardly a consumer product. Either these things are just far too expensive to produce for the average consumer. Or they are simply not practical for the average person. A transparent TV makes sense for installations or something like that. But not for the average person. It is Ultimately just a gimmick. An impressive gimmick.....but a gimmick nonetheless. And transparent TVs are as unlikely to be on sale at a store near you as rollable TVs.
QDEL matching brightness and contrast of OLED plus fixing the burn in issue, longevity, and vacuum manufacturing of OLED is a huge win. Even better if it can repurpose the LCD manufacturing lines which are not worth much and would gladly switch to a technology like this. Finally something that might kill off LCD after 40+ years!
Sharp ruled the LCD world for a Long time until they were first overtaken by the Korean Giants and then by the Chinese. They were for a Long time the only Company with SDP with a Gen.10 LCD fab. And they exploited the superior IGZO backplane Technology.
@@zico9013 Taiwan isn't China. Not trying to say there isn't Chinese government influence on Foxconn but you get that anywhere (governments influencing tech companies).
@@marioalday5966think of Taiwan as South Korea and Mainland China as North Korea. They both share the name China/Korea but 2 separate governments and states. When people think of China they think, People's Republic of China (Mainland China). When people think of Taiwan they think of a separate country that isn't, People's Republic of China.
I’ve been waiting on this. Not just because of its image quality potential or its long life span, but primarily because of the claim that it’s cheap to make. As long as companies don’t jack up the prices on QDEL/NanoLED compared to the competition (especially compared to LCDs), this has the potential to be unmatched in terms of price-to-performance and could return us to a monolithic display standard like during the reign of Cathode Ray Tubes.
Yeah, this utterly trumps the strengths of OLEDs, inherits none of the faults of self-emissive tech, while being able to use existing LCD/LED TV TFT factory tooling. That's... this shit is much closer than anyone thinks if it gets the right companies looking into this.
"Cheap to make" only means more money for them. They will sell it at a higher price because it's new tech, then in time they will lower the price to be in the range of the competitors. These are "for profit companies" and they will always have a target. And they always try and raise that target point. If the panels don't die as OLED panels do, they will ask a premium price just for that. Better colors ? Premium price. Better brightness? Premium price. If other companies will use this display, they will pay royalties. They will add those royalties in the device's price. It will take years for the prices to lower and stabilize.
This RU-vidr excitement about future display tech really reminded me of the excitement I felt more than 20 years ago. I remember the first time I read about OLED tech. It was 2002 and I was in my first year of industrial design university. I was so excited about the tech - an-ultra-thin display that could be bent. It really made a mark on me. Fast forward to 2017 and I found myself designing what would soon become the 2nd foldable OLED screen smartphone in the world. I never chased that - it just happened. Somehow I felt completed.
Thanks Caleb for hunting this down. I've been following this technology for a long time and it really sounds promising. It's great to see that Sharp is serious about pursuing it. If it can achieve the longevity and brightness levels that current tv buyers are demanding, then maybe we could finally see this come to market.
I know its a prototype. But it looks horrible with bad contrast and washed out color. It may be the best display but they could very likely hold it back on purpose like they did with the micro led tvs by adding that terrible matte screen.
Heard about this quantum dot emissive display almost a decade ago on an episode of HD Nation. One of the co-hosts, Robert Heron, was invited to a secret room at CES and shared everything he could about it. Oled TV's were in its infancy, and the idea of micro-LED's were only in the proof of concept stages. It was exciting learning about all of this tech being developed, and I'm glad it's finally coming to fruition.
I know its a prototype. But it looks horrible with bad contrast and washed out color. It may be the best display but they could very likely hold it back on purpose like they did with the micro led tvs by adding that terrible matte screen.
SHARP have often led and still lead innovation, they are a force to be reckoned with, and being one of the few panel makers it's good to see them pioneering the next cutting-edge thing...
I don't think our household has bought anything Sharp except that one scientific calculator for school way back in 1995 😂 but since the 80s or earlier we've contributed to the incomes of Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, etc even Westinghouse.
@@miaya3898 but you most likely have used their displays without knowing it. SHARP made the displays for the iphones for years, makes the displays for the Nintendo Switches, and makes the LCD displays for Samsung.
SHARP being the main innovator of many areas including digital panels invented and patented the 'pinch & swipe' tech you use on your smartphone and supply panels to all the main manufacturers, including iPhones, so you are likely using SHARP in one way or another. They also invest and support countries and universities with manufacturing and R&D centres unlike many companies in the same realm. @@miaya3898 😉
I really thought Sharp was done in the Display tech and now their back! I still remember the yellow sub pixel tech they did for 1080p tvs and couldn't find a way to make it happen for 4k. I'm excited to hear more about this tech and what becomes of it in the near future. Thanks for finding this gem!
The next generation of displays is here, and it is real. If everything Sharp said is true, then LCD and OLED just became super obsolete, both from a cost AND performance perspective. Welcome back to the game, Sharp. Fan-freakin-tastic!!!
FOMO you were going in so many directions Im surprised you knew where you were when you woke up in the morning! We all look forward to your input on this too.
@lancealex382 QD oled is active matrix. There are no passive matrix color displays on the market of any type. To my knowledge, I don't believe that is even possible. If it is, I certainly can't think of a valid reason for such a production. If you see TFT or Thin Film Transistor anywhere in the spec sheet, it is active matrix.
Ok. But what if - just a what if - when it came out in a TV, it would peak at 1,000 nits across the board (color and white) but the color purity and accuracy and gamut coverage was better than you’d ever seen? In other words, not insanity bright, but color perfection and perfect contrast. Still want it?
@@TheJjjoj not my understanding at all. Amoled technology is not used in TV displays or anything bigger than laptop/tablets in fact. Currently if you want to illuminate a pixel on a oled or qdoled TV screen the power has to be sent to the entire line of pixels and the correct on will activate. With amoled, that power can be sent specifically and exclusively to the individual pixel only. That's my understanding of the key differences. Apparently, it's currently too expensive to produce amoled TV size screens.
According to Nanosys roadmap I saw i long time ago (LTT talked about that 3-4 years ago), QDEL displays should be available (in mass production) around 2027... wait and see ;p
I don't comment much but I wanted to say great video, the passion for the subject matter and the explanation to contextualise the different screen technologies shone through. Keep it up Caleb/Digital Trends team!
I double down on this - i saved the video to share with my students in „AV Technologies“ lecture as you nailed it in such a short but yet complete overview. Great work. On QDEL: max possible brightness and luminance stability would be interesting to know. But at the given time it’s already a bless to know that there are alternatives to micro LED
Well said. Caleb just made a whole bunch of tech terminology clear to me with this presentation and his enthusiasm for this new tech has rubbed off on me. It makes a lot of sense to leverage and retool existing tech (QD) and evolve it for a superior end result.
Not the same though. QD-OLED is the same as LG's WOLED except that it uses blue LEDs instead of white and has a quantum dot filter. This is an entirely new type of panel. It's more like going from LCD to OLED.
@@drkevorkian2508 I don't think so. The manufacturing commoniality between LCD and QDEL is very, very high. I don't think it will be as easy as QD-OLED and I don't think it will be as hard as OLED, although that depends on definition, because we have been working on QDEL for close to 2 decades now too. Its my understanding that right now, they are fighting with blue QD-LEDs, where the lifespan is substantially lower. The last numbers I have are(all at 100nits, in hours, time until 50% brightness is reached): 2 Million for Red, about 600k for green and a measely 41k for blue. The paper for the blue one also featured brightness over time at 1000nits, where blue was only doing about 2000h, extrapolate to the other ones(100k for red, 30k for green) and all but blue would be viable for a display. If you look at the history, advancements are rapid right now. Note that atleast for the last one, that paper just released and we don't know what the big manufacturers, including Nanosys, have in their hands.
Great explanation of the QDEL technology! No one does this better than Caleb Denison! The technology sounds amazing and I look forward to hearing more about it and its progress.
Great find Caleb! I love how most of the coverage was in front of massive all-singing all-dancing installations but this most exciting piece of news is in a small white-walled room in a tiny screen atop an industrial box. Future tech!
i only just now heard of this QDEL thing. I have been following the news of MicroLED for awhile, in hopes of it becoming consumer ready soon. from how it looks in this video, and based on how it's being presented... and also the current implied limitations of MicroLED... i have come to a theory: - MicroLED will primarily be focused on TVs, larger screens especially. 55"+ .. there's a rumored 37" being shown but someone said it might only be 1080p as it is cut from the large panels previously shown. It might not be scalable down to PC monitors/laptop/mobile device level anytime soon. - QDEL seems to be the opposite. it's being demo'd on small screens as shown in this video. there's not as much hype or widespread knowledge about it either. As the guy in the video suggested: it might appear on phones, your watch, small laptop screens, whatever. My big concern is... please tell me it's not as dim looking as this video shows it as being? Sure, the guy says color clarity is unmatched, but this video makes it look insanely dull. We need to see more of this in action, honestly. Also, it's not very bright looking. OLED is criticized for burn-in and low peak brightness, but this looks even lower in brightness than even the worst OLEDs. so... will these techs just diverge into 'big stuff use mLED and small stuff use QDEL'? or.. will it be 'expensive stuff use mLED and cheap stuff use QDEL?' is QDEL the walmart mLED? i need to see more of this.
-FINALLY some TRULY GREAT NEWS!! -Long lasting, no IR or Burn-In, 100% color accurate, extremely low power consumption, even now looks like bright enough for dark environment, cheap to manufacture in limitless quantities... Just make it 65 inches with any 3D tech and boost brightness a bit and it would be perfect for me!😍 -i always had a great respect for SHARP CORPORATION!..😎
Caleb Denison, You're JUST the kind we need, after mentioning you're going to SID Display Week 2024 on this video. The technology you shown us here is LOVELY, BUT it's by no mean's as good as Porotech DPT. If you're going to SID Display Week 2024, look at this technology if you want, BUT track down Porotech for DPT, as this looks more superior. Give Porotech ALL the support and cover as much as you can, He needs you BADLY!
I would love to see a video about the pros and cons of QDEL vs. Micro-LED since I still don't quite understand which one's better and has higher chances being the new successor to OLED. Because these companies have shown Micro-LED for so long now and there are still no consumer/normal sized TV's out. So maybe Micro-LED will come first when it's ready and then someday later QDEL? Also seems like Micro-LED TV's have these seams because they're made out of multiple panels put together. I'm wondering if they can be produced without these seams by making one big panel in the future. Because this would be the only thing coming to my mind that would be a differentiator and if the seams can't get rid of then QDEL must be the ultimate technology here.
I think both QDEL and Micro LED are pretty much the holy grail. It's a cost issue with Micro LED though, as you need almost 25 million individual LEDs for a 4k display and you can't "print" them in the same way you can print quantum dots. The price of Micro LED needs to come down an order of magnitude before it rivals OLED. If QDEL can be scaled up in performance and size quickly enough, it could make OLED and Micro LED both obsolete. The demo QDEL seemed very poor saturation and they were careful not to show anything moving fast on it. I'll let them off, it was a very early prototype! Exciting times. The seams between Micro LED subpanels shouldn't be visible in normal use cases, but will be with intense direct front lighting. I'm sure a single large Micro LED panel is possible, but again, that's going to be a price issue!
QDEL could be the leader if the stability issues of blue QD‘s are solved. I would bet on QNED from Samsung which is basically also a microLED technology but without the costly RGB pick and place issue current microLED‘s have. That will prevent microLED from reaching Consumer affordable Prices (
@@John.bww03 QDEL is so early in development that I wouldn't like to say for sure. I can theorise though - quantum dots emit a much purer colour than conventional LEDs (in technical terms, a narrower spectral half width). They're therefore theoretically capable of more precise and vibrant colours. I don't think there's much between them though honestly, which is why cost is so important now. Quantum dots should also be more efficient, power consumption is definitely a problem for Micro LED too.
Glad to see Sharp back. Definitely missed them. They finally need to put all that Japanese horsepower to good use, with Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba, to beat South Korea and China.
It’s going to come down to how quickly microLED can solve the scale problem. With Apple putting microLED in the Apple Watching within the next 1000 days or so… scale typically leads to efficiency
SHARP is such an underrated display manufacturer. All the talk usually centres around LG and Samsung display. But most people have probably had or used SHARP displays without knowing about it. SHARP made the displays for the iPhones for many years. Made the LCD displays for Samsung, and make the displays for the various Nintendo Switch models. I believe they use their IGZIO technology on the Switch. So it shouldn't really be a surprise to see SHARP innovating with a different take on the current TV tech
Where are you getting the info about the switch? I am curious. I think this technology is perfect for the upcoming successor to the switch for sure. If I'm not mistaken the iPad mini generation 1 was an igzo display. Extremely power efficient from what I understand. That thing had some incredible battery life.
@@phantomgfx580I can't remember exactly but it's not a secret. It was Nintendo themselves that said the Switch display was made by SHARP. And remember that Nintendo and SHARP (both companies from the Kansai region of Japan) have a long history. SHARP has manufactured many things for Nintendo. That's why in the 90s there was a SHARP TV with a Nintendo NES built into it. SHARP was allowed to do that by Nintendo because of their long relationship. And yes... That's very correct. SHARP did also make the displays for the iPads too. The CEO of SHARP confirmed earlier this year that SHARP is currently making displays for the Switch 2. You should be easily able to find links online.
@@phantomgfx580I don't remember specifically. But I remember Nintendo openly talking about the display being a SHARP IGZIO display. And it's not surprising since Nintendo and SHARP have a long history of working together.
It's gonna be very interesting to where the display market will develop. QDEL was a completely new term to me. I only knew about Micro LED and PeLED, so thanks Caleb for your insights.
I know its a prototype. But it looks horrible with bad contrast and washed out color. It may be the best display but they could very likely hold it back on purpose like they did with the micro led tvs by adding that terrible matte screen.
Interesting that the QDEL panel doesn't need an LTPO or LTPS backplane. IGZO can only produce about half the current of LTPS. Being able to use IGZO is a huge cost savings so that is pretty awesome. Getting it to a reasonable price should only take a few years once it hits the consumer market. The question I have is if the IGZO backplane actually properly powers it or if it requires any kind of overdrive.
@@maou5025it has nothing to do with size. iPads use IPS panels. IPS panels don't need nearly as much current to drive the pixels as VA LCD panels , OLED, and micro led need. Igzo was actually created largely to be a more efficient alternative to ltps for panel types that don't demand as much current to drive the pixels but still need more than what amorphous silicone backplanes are able to adequately provide. LTPO was created to essentially be an in-between of IGZO and LTPS but really only makes sense in small form factors. If QDEL is able to function well without ghosting or other issues caused by an underpowered backplane for the display type, then it's an even bigger improvement in power efficiency than we thought it was.
@@TheJjjoj it is, back plane wise LTPS are extremely hard to scale up. It’s in the name it self LT is Low Temp and only works well on phone size screen. LTPS is still the highest quality back plane at the moment, with LTPO a higher version of LTPS. IGZO are much cheaper and scale better as it does not require Low Temp and can be cut from much bigger mother glass.
True but oled did come down in price significantly since it came out and is getting significantly better every year. Qdel is definitely welcoming. I thought the future will be oled vs microled but this might bring another player. Although Microled and miniled is equally as expensive if not more expensive than oled currently.
Bs. Samsung QLED was more expensive back then in 2018 compared to same segment LG OLED... And miniLED costs about the same as the same segment LG OLED. So people thinking LCD is cheap, no it is not. LMAO.
My first flat panel HDTV was a Sharp Quattron in the 40" size. I loved because it was like looking out a window into the world. Sharp needs to step up and manufacture HDTVs using this technology.
Though it's worth pointing out that, judging from the footage, this QDEL prototype had pretty low contrast for some reason. Relatively weak brightness and not at all deep black levels. It still looks like an early color LCD. Which is surprising, as OLED, which is emissive like QDEL, always had perfect blacks, even the early prototypes. Though the maximum brightness being constrained is more understandable.
The pixel density won't be an issue, atleast not for screens, there was atleast one 4000ppi prototype. Response times are also what dictates refreshrate and we are at the microsecond level, atleast from what I read in a paper(dedicated to improving the lifespan of blue QD-LEDs). There are no issues in any of the three areas to my understanding.
@@jasonstatham483 From where? Peak QD already reached near 100k nits, but thats not sustainable and I am not finding any lifespan data that would support 10k nits as of now.
I've manufactured Elecroluminscence for 15 years. The issue with EL they won't tell you is it suffers from dielectric burn through which looks like black pin holes. Life time will be 2000 - 4000 hrs after which it will loose 50% brightness due to phosphor degradation, moisture ingress and dielectric burn through.
QDEL sounds like a cool and interesting display technology. If Sony were to make QDEL TVs paired with their highly praised processing, it would be a dream TV. But, like with pretty much any new panel technology(OLED, QD-OLED, etc.), it'll probably end up being very expensive in the beginning.
THIS is the reason that SONY has hinted that OLED is nearly DEAD for them. As usual they are WAY ahead of the curve compared with LG and Samsung (one or both will be gone within three years) and its obvious Hisense and TCL are going to battle it out for "biggest and brightest AND mediocre" TVs. 100% guarantee SONY already have some sort of a deal with Sharp for this tech. SONY is already phasing out their current OLED line and by the end of this year they will be virtually gone at the HIGH end levels. You will see these TVs in 2025 for sure.
I agree with you, sony WAY ahead of their peers for phasing out OLED tech when OLED become the "It" tv for every consumer and tech enthusiast. Sony even brave enough to replaced their highly regarded OLED Master monitor with dual layered LCD Panel, and now their ditched OLED for their refined version of Mini LED this year in their coming flagship TV. But I think Sony will stick with Mini LED for 2025, but already making some prototypes of QDEL tech because Sharp Display and Sony is very close in alliance (they were part of Japan Display Inc)
I agree with you, sony WAY ahead of their peers for phasing out OLED tech when OLED become the "It" tv for every consumer and tech enthusiast. Sony even brave enough to replaced their highly regarded OLED Master monitor with dual layered LCD Panel, and now their ditched OLED for their refined version of Mini LED this year in their coming flagship TV. But I think Sony will stick with Mini LED for 2025, but already making some prototypes of QDEL tech because Sharp Display and Sony is very close in alliance (they were part of Japan Display Inc)
I agree with you, sony WAY ahead of their peers for phasing out OLED tech when OLED become the "It" tv for every consumer and tech enthusiast. Sony even brave enough to replaced their highly regarded OLED Master monitor with dual layered LCD Panel, and now their ditched OLED for their refined version of Mini LED this year in their coming flagship TV. But I think Sony will stick with Mini LED for 2025, but already making some prototypes of QDEL tech because Sharp Display and Sony is very close in alliance (they were part of Japan Display Inc)
I agree with you, sony WAY ahead of their peers for phasing out OLED tech when OLED become the "It" tv for every consumer and tech enthusiast. Sony even brave enough to replaced their highly regarded OLED Master monitor with dual layered LCD Panel, and now their ditched OLED for their refined version of Mini LED this year in their coming flagship TV. But I think Sony will stick with Mini LED for 2025, but already making some prototypes of QDEL tech because Sharp Display and Sony is very close in alliance (they were part of Japan Display Inc)
This actually does sound pretty damn exciting. The way you describe it, it sounds like we could actually see a production model of QDEL in some form in the very near future. Dare I say, maybe next year even. Sony's sudden departure from OLED would also make a lot of sense now. I don't doubt they knew all about this for a long time.
I agree with you, sony WAY ahead of their peers for phasing out OLED tech when OLED become the "It" tv for every consumer and tech enthusiast. Sony even brave enough to replaced their highly regarded OLED Master monitor with dual layered LCD Panel, and now their ditched OLED for their refined version of Mini LED this year in their coming flagship TV. But I think Sony will stick with Mini LED for 2025, but already making some prototypes of QDEL tech because Sharp Display and Sony is very close in alliance (they were part of Japan Display Inc)
No way this is real, I thought this technology was at least 8 years away. I'm sure it'll take a while before we see actual products to market but still, way to get back in to relevance Sharp!
Honestly 8 years could still be the case if it goes the way OLED did. They didn't become close to affordable for probably about the same amount of time. I am curious about QDEL but I have to wonder why the display captured in this video looks so bad? I mean I know you can't judge a recording being displayed on another device, but it looks really washed out and dim while similar recordings of OLEDs look incredible.
@@nonfungiblemushroom It took 5 yrs for OLED to really come around. Sony made a small demo display in 2008 but it took until 2013 for LG to actually introduce them for sale. Yes, the demo device shown does look bad but that doesn't matter. It's just proof of concept and will likely take a few more years to be released in any commercial form.
Now I can tell why you were so excited, Caleb! I have spent the last two days looking at new Digital Trends videos and wondering which one had you excited - I’m not wondering any more!
Fascinating. The demo device doesn't have very dark blacks, though. And it looks like it's not bright enough yet. But I guess that's just because they aren't pushing the tech hard yet.
Super exciting. Given the challenges of microled manufacturing it seems like this might be the future. If this is genuinely easy to manufacture and Nanosys has been talking about it for years though, why haven't the larger companies gone full in on this tech? Hope it's not more than 5 years away, but it feels almost certain that it is considering that the Chinese brands are placing their bets on oled.
Very cool to see, though the picture quality didn't yet look all that amazing at least in the video, but for a first working prototype that's a big step and I'm sure they were more focused on making it work than perfecting it as a display for this first go around.
LG and Samsung are caught in the middle of a FAR superior line of TVs (SONY) and the budget BRIGHTER and BIGGER crap that TCL and Hisense that sell at much cheaper price points. LG and Samsung are going to lose significant market share in the next two years and either one of both will DISAPPEAR.
@@steveludwig4200 Not at all. Samsung is the #1 largest tv maker in the world regardless of budget and LG is the #1 OLED tv maker in the world and the only real source for OLED display panels regardless of device implementation. They’re not going away any time soon, if ever.
@@steveludwig4200 Silly Sony fan boy. Sony does generally make the best displays and that's why I own several. But they are not night and day better than LG or Samsung's best efforts. Neither one is going to disappear. Samsung's display business is a tiny percentage of their total revenues. Probably true for LG as well.
I remember watching a video on Linus about these displays 3 years ago, and what shook me the most is that this is, essentially, a neo-rebirth of Cathode Ray Tubes essentially making a much tinier and sharper lightbeam shoot its shot to the front glass without needing a giant ray gun on the back, this is going to be amazing, i am a massive CRT fan and i dailydrive a CRT Monitor on my desktop PC , i think QDEL is the real future of display and PC Gaming , OLED will never be able to counter the burn in produced by the PC O.S UI being there 24/7 , some may last you a year, some may last you 3 years, but that burn in is inevitable on organic components.
Yes, this thing is closer to exciting the phosphors in a CRT than something like OLED. However, I'd avoid calling this some sort of comeback for CRT. This is still ultimately a fixed-pixel display, and won't really look like a CRT in the end.
Can the OLED last its full life before burn in becomes an issue. I have an OLED monitor now and the only safe guards i use is i have the task bar on hide and rotating wallpapers. Always let it do its scheduled pixel refreshes. Thats it. Had it for 1 year 6 months now. I hammer the display with 100s of hours of gameplay with the same UI. Still no signs of burn in. I use my computer mainly for multimedia and playing games. If i get 3-5 years before burn in shows up i'll be happy. Hopefully they'll be a next gen display at that time. The benefit is so great i can never go back. I wouldn't recommend it for office use though. Having word docs or static content on the screen for 40+ hours a week is going to lead to burn in happening quicker.
@@richr161 3-5 years is awful for a monitor/display tech. That is E-Waste central. OLEDs are not cheap enough to be treated as dispoable, easily replaceable things.
@@RicochetForce At least for me its speculation. Any piece of tech can break at any time. So far i'm 1.5 years in with no signs of marks on my screen. You just don't wake up one day and see a cooked image in the screen, Unless you have been watching something with the same HUD or UI for thousands of hours. Even then its hard unless you literally using an OLED for office use or commercial use like ad displays. Its sort of a gradual effect that you notice when there is transitions or certain colors on the screen. Im a tech head and i understand not everybody is going to be replacing their monitors every 5 years. Generally there is a jump in quality every 3-5 years for a monitor. I generally want to replace it because i want to experience new tech. Of course my old monitors don't go into the garbage. I pass them on to family members or you can sell them.
This is the most exciting thing I've seen now. It was cool seeing MiniLED get it's day in the sun with Hiense and TCL, but holy moly do we need some happy news about something to rival OLED, and this might be it. Nice.
@@John.bww03 -QDEL is probably 20 times less power hungry than MicroLED, 20 times cheaper to make and infinite times less probable to develop any screen defects in 20 years period...😉
You had me at Self admission, quantum dot, how in the World are people not talking about this. This is the absolute Pinnacle of CES for me. Bro I almost teared up when I heard about this 😢
Self Emissive Quantum Dot Teechnology is the biigest thing I was hoping to see at CES this year as well and was really hoping that was what the teaser was about. I think this will be the "End-Game" display tech for screen based displays for the foreseeable future. The only thing that could be better would be in the future, multiple decades from now when we can have perfect 3D holographic displays that do not require a screen.
No such thing as Endgame display tech. The whole point of technology is that it's supposed to keep improving. Not stay complacent. There's always something better around the corner.
@@PSYCHOV3N0M He said for the foreseeable future. And he is correct because this tech solves all the problems with displays as we know them. You can't make anything simpler, brighter, more accurate, or cheaper (once they get it dialed). CRT's ruled the roost for 75 years and LCD's for 20. So, although displays can improve every year, the fundamental principles can remain the same for many years.
The fact that already at a prototype stage it is known to be easy to manufacture is a huge win for QDEL. If it works out, it will easily displace OLED and LED displays. It has true black (unlike LED), great longevity (unlike OLED), does not suffer from burn-in - or not very much at least (unlike OLED), and is cheap to manufacture (unlike OLED).
At last a new display technology that gives us the performance without the drawbacks of LED based panels. It can only be a matter of time before we see larger screens available with QDEL. Perhaps the wiser buyers will give 2024 models a miss and wait and see what happens.
From what was said in this video, I’d say it will be 5 years or more before we see this technology appear in TV’s. It will need to be matured and scaled up first. I wouldn’t put off buying a nice OLED while waiting for this, could be a long wait.
I can wait, i still have a Pioneer Kuro Plasma that provides a great picture plus a home cineam room with a 4K projector. As for OLED, no thanks i want a new TV that will last as long as my Plasma@@bk99911
WOLED technology is very mature, more so for LCD televisions. QD-OLED is the new kid on the block, but QDEL ‘could’ be the Holy Grail of technology. I’m pleased Sharp is back and producing new technological ideas. Should give the rest a run for its money.
No such thing as holy grail. There's always something better around the corner. The whole point of technology is that it's supposed to keep improving. Not stay complacent.
There is an amazing video how all display tech is slowly becoming all the same in terms of performance. Video is called "The billion dollar race for perfect display"
FYI this QDEL is technically more emissive than OLED and QD-OLED, as both OLED technologies (generally) use a single color(monochrome) brightness layer, that shines through a color converter layer(sometimes the display tech only has 2 color converters, and just lets the backlight shine though for the 3rd color, usually blue) I'm talking about semantics here yes i know the reason OLED uses a single color backlight is to mostly negate burn in caused by different color OLEDs fading at different rates, yes there are true RGB-OLED that generate color and light at the same layer, but these are rare as they have huge drawbacks from the mentioned burn in, extremely rare for TV and monitor use. Because OLEDs and QD-OLEDs still use a backlight that shines through a layer responsible for color, they are less emissive, and more transmissive than these QDEL sub pixels that both generate contrast, and color from the same layer. If anyone wants to argue on this ask yourself if CRTs were self emissive if they used a triplet of scanning UV laser, rather than a triplet of scanning electron beam to pass through a lens+shadowmask and then hit the phosphor layer to convert those 3 UV beams to red, green, or blue(or a mix of all 3), the effect would be the same on both theoretical displays, but one would converts color similar to how OLED/WD-OLED converts color, and the other and uses electrons to generate light+color similar to how a QDEL generates light+color from electrons (the difference being that the CRT uses wireless electron delivery :P ok that was a bit of satire its sort of true but far more complicated than 'electron make phosphor glow') for those of you wondering a normal CRT is an emissive technnology because there is no light until the phosphor layer converts the electrons to photons, but a scanning laser would be transmissive because the light is generated by the backlight, and then converted by a color layer However i dont like the terms emissive and transmissive There are 3 different kinds of (common) display technologies Source color, like QDEL, CRT, and any RGB-OLED/RGB-LED color filtering like LCD (this can be backlit, front lit, or both) Color converting like OLED/QD-OLED I think we should use transformative for color converting because for all aspects other than semantics, to the eye it is going to look like a source color emissive display but it is technically only sightly more emissive than an LCD in that sometimes one of the colors comes from the backlight. i also think LCDs should be referred to as either blocking, or filtering because its shorter, and more directly describes what the display is doing, because most OLEDs would fall under the definition of transmissive as well, and technically, before TVs came along, emissive and transmissive would have meant pretty much the same thing, with transmissive regarding transmissivity, or the ability to generate light/radiation, which is not what LCDs do, they instead take something that is transmitting, and decides weather to try to stop the radiation or allow it to hit the color filter that further reduces the light output(unless it is a QLED which converts the light intead of filtering it in the color layer)
I expected a white van to appear and try to kidnap Caleb in the abandoned parking lot just as a Delorean came swooping from the future with a 98 inch Qdel tv on it 😂
WOW!! QDEL! I've heard rumors of this but I didn't think I'd ever see it. I thought it was more theoretical than fact. Love it that you were in a back room 'under wraps' seeing this. This your best CES news.
Glasses-free QDEL 3D TV's are what's needed. A VR headset for 3D content only works for 1 user at a time unlike a TV which multiple people can watch simultaneously in the same room.
This is Caleb as his absolute BEST! All jacked up on caffeine from Starbucks and talking at 100mph+ about future tech in Las Vegas. LOVE IT! (Seriously though, one of your absolute best videos to date.) Love the idea of QDEL and can't wait to see what it brings. Hopefully this tech gets fast-tracked into production here soon and we start to see new products based on it in the next year or two. Can't wait!
It's impressive how few products (outside of Japan) are Sharp-branded. They're at the top of the R&D game, but companies like Samsung, LG and Sony dominate the market.
Thank you for covering this. I've seen some cool CES vids on stuff that look like nice upgrades but this story is one that actually sounds innovative and interesting. I bought a LG oled TV not long ago and it's beautiful but I've held off on oled for my computer (currently have a cooler master Tempest mini led) because I need to have hours of static content on screen for my use cases. QDEL or Nanoled could be the upgrade I want in a year or two hopefully.
