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it's amazing to think that in the mid 1950s we were paying the equivalent of over 2000 modern-day US dollars for relatively small black-and-white TVs that required you to fight with a finicky antenna and just 60 years later you can have an incredibly high res lightweight device that sits on your desk for a tenth of that price so given how quickly the industry has progressed it's kind of surprising that one of the best display technologies out there today hasn't yet made its way to our gaming battle stations I'm talking of course about LED screens which are common in both televisions and smartphones thanks to their incredibly good color reproduction deep blacks and high contrast so consider this there are plenty of big TVs and tiny phones with LED screens so why can't we figure out how to put them into medium sized computer monitors I mean you could argue that having accurate contrast is even more important for PCs than it is for TVs and smartphones because a professional color work is done on PCs and be led has extremely fast response times which is super important for competitive gamers who've got a frag lots of noobs in a small amount of time so the challenge is actually twofold one aspect of the issue has to do with how the technology itself would be used on desktops and the other has to do with how OLEDs are actually put together although Oh Ellie D delivers a picture that's generally far superior to the LED backlit displays commonly built for desktop and laptop PCs they tend to have a much shorter lifespan the organic materials that allow the pixels in an LED display to generate their own light simply don't last as long as the back lights in a more run-of-the-mill LED screen more specifically blue sub pixels tend to burn out much more quickly than red or green ones due to their chemical makeup so after about fourteen thousand hours blue o LED sub pixels will only be about half as bright as they originally were the red and green sub pixels degrade much more slowly leading to your monitor displaying some very funky looking colors and not the good kind of fun and while this is also true for phone displays in TVs consumers tend to not leave those gadgets on all the time most phones shut their screens off automatically when not in use for more than about a minute and unless you're running a bar or hotel where the TV is perma tuned to a news or sports channel you typically turn it off after a few hours at most hopefully this isn't the case with computer monitors as they tend to be just left on for much longer periods of time which would hasten the death of those o LED pixels the fact that we leave our monitors on for such a long time also leads straight to the other practical challenge burning o LEDs are much more susceptible to residual image burnin than standard LED backlit displays and on a computer screen which often shows the same desktop wallpaper and UI elements such as a taskbar users could be left with some very ugly visual artifacts whenever they want to play a game or simply fire up a web browser for goodness sake but even if consumers were careful to use screen savers and turn off their monitors as soon as they're done using them it isn't just user behavior that's kept LED screens off of our desktops the manufacturing process has also kept led primarily in the realm of TVs instead of PCs because manufacturing defects are much more common in LED screens compared to other types of displays making them more expensive to produce o LED technology is still common on phones because manufacturers can stomach the cost of a small screen being defective and even on large TVs Oh le d-- makers can still make a sizable profit because sales of TVs tend to dwarf sales of monitors that has left o LED computer monitors in a bit of a weird space it doesn't make much sense for companies to start cranking them out in huge numbers just for them not to sell as well as TVs in addition to having to deal with widespread consumer dissatisfaction because people just decided to leave their monitors turned on all the time but this doesn't mean those of you who want a nice looking o LED monitor should lose hope not only are there now a few o LED monitors and laptops on the market al be it at higher prices but the industry is working on finding ways to increase manufacturing efficiency and Oh le d-- longevity including everything from printing the pixels onto a substrate inkjet style to using slightly different molecules to produce light and color hopefully in the near future this great piece of tech will find its way onto desktops around the globe but if it doesn't happen nothing stopping you from just plugging your 60 inch o LED TV into your computer and kicking back except maybe your desk sighs today's video is brought to you by the drop and Sennheiser HD 6 xx headphones these cans are one of drops best sellers with over 60,000 sold with the same driver as the HD 650 the HD 6 xx delivers balanced meds and natural 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