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ratio for one's needs can be enough to drive prospective buyers insane and apparently some companies didn't think we'd gone mad enough so they've introduced a new style which uses a little other things called Quantum dots to increase performance over standard LCDs while undoubtedly increasing standard prices as well now modern LCD screens are made up of blue LED backlights that have had a layer of yellow phosphorus added to them which causes their emitted light to turn from Blue to White this white light is then filtered through red green and blue subpixels at varying intensities creating the end color of a pixel you know whatever shade of magenta floats your boat set in an entire array of them and while this design enabled us to create a wide range of colors at pretty darn fast refresh rates the style of white backlighting that they deployed made their color Recreation especially for Reds a little bit on the weaker side and this is where the use of quantum dots in LCD screens comes in QD LCD screens also start with a blue layer of backlighting but instead of using phosphorus to turn the light white red and green fluorescent nanoc crystals are used these nanoc crystals range from about 1 and a half to a little over four nanometers in size and actually emit light instead of just filtering it so when the light of the blue LED causes the red and green dots to illuminate it creates a purer white than before this purer light is able to more efficiently pass through the subpixel filters allowing Engineers to create screens which require less operation and energy to achieve increased Spectrum ranges or in other words colors are able to be brighter and more vibrant all while the screen is using less juice but while Quantum do LCD screens boast a wider range of colors compared to their regular LED back lip predecessors that does not automatically make them the new king of the Rainbow Castle quite a few people who have seen them in action still testify to the superior image quality of OLED screens this would be largely due to their ability to shut off individual pixels creating much darker blacks and giving them this like massive contrast ratio there are also a lot of people who are questioning the ability of the initial run quantum dot screens to handle motion blur properly at higher refresh rates leading many to wonder why this technology is even being implemented in the first place the answer of course is money as if it was ever anything else like I previously explained QD LCDs operate at lower energy costs than their competitors making them highly attractive to anyone who wishes to reduce power consumption and then the other big upside to them is that the production costs of quantum LCD panels can reportedly range anywhere from as low as half to a third of an OLED screen making them extremely attractive to manufacturers as well as budget-minded consumers because the simple fact of the matter is that well there's going to be the tech Geeks out that 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