I see everyone talk about OLED like it’s the best thing ever and it’s been a thing for years yet it’s not a standard in the industry. Like for example an original PS Vita had a OLED screen then they removed it for the 2nd version of the PS Vita.
Even the Nintendo Switch which came out years after the PS Vita didn’t have an OLED and just a few years ago now it does.
Why isn’t it the standard if it’s so good?
In: Engineering
LCD is the type of screen where each pixel is a trio of filters (red, green, blue) in front of a white backlight. The filters allow just the desired colors to shine through at exactly the right intensity. The backlight can be fluorescent or LED. So when you haven “LED” TV or monitor, they’re saying it’s an LCD screen with an LED backlight.
OLED is a newer type of screen with no backlight. Each pixel’s red, green, and blue component is a separate LED which emits that color of light itself, instead of filtering white light coming in from behind it.
As for why it’s not “the standard”, OLED is newer, more costly, and less mature technology. LCD with fluorescent or LED backlight has had a long head-start to become cheap and reliable. OLED is catching up, but it will take time.
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