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Typically, products that claim to perform better than what the pros use for an impossibly

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low price are the province of late night infomercials, and of course that chef quality

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cookware you paid 20 bucks for is going to be worn out in a few months.

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But there's something coming in a few years that should give you unparalleled image quality

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for a third of what you pay for even a cheap display today.

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And it's actually not micro-led, as while that's pretty cool, it's currently super

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expensive and probably will be for a while. Instead, I'm talking about a new type of display panel called Nanoled.

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And to find out more about it, we've spoke with Nanosys, the company developing the tech,

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and we'd like to thank their CEO, Jason Hartlove, as well as Jeff Urik for helping us out with

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this video. Nanoled is actually based on quantum dots, which you may have seen being used in many

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TVs in recent years in the form of an enhancement layer inserted into the existing LCD stack.

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Quantum dot displays are marketed as having more true-to-life colors because each tiny

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dot inside of the display can emit a pure color, either pure red or pure green.

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Some displays also utilize pure blue quantum dots, while others feature a blue backlight

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and simply allow that light to pass through when necessary. Without quantum dots, displays instead pass light that's off-white through a color filter

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for a result that's often good enough, but isn't nearly as accurate.

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Even many expensive OLED displays, which have self-lit pixels that don't need a backlight,

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still use a color filter. So while conventional OLED gives you deep blacks in great contrast, they don't give

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the most accurate colors. More recently, QT OLED displays have hit the market that combine the best of both worlds,

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per pixel lighting and quantum dots for both great color and great contrast.

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These displays lose the enhancement film in favor of inkjet printing the quantum dots

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directly onto the display substrate, but they're still using light emitters to excite the quantum

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dots. And those OLED emitters are really expensive thanks to a complicated manufacturing process

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that requires them to be vaporized in a vacuum chamber at 700 degrees Celsius, not to mention

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the pricey sheets of special glass that actually form the panel.

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But NanoLED promises the same picture quality without all this complicated engineering.

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The main idea behind NanoLED is that you still have the same red, green, and blue quantum

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dots, but instead of having a separate light source that excites the quantum dots, which

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is how current displays work, NanoLED delivers an electric charge directly to the quantum

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dots, which is a huge deal for a few reasons. First and foremost, you don't need that complex vacuum chamber vaporization process.

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Unlike OLED, quantum dots are stable in regular air, meaning that NanoLED displays can basically

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be made by just inkjet printing the dots onto a cheaper, lighter surface like plastic.

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Additionally, those vacuum chambers take a long time to reset, limiting how many panels

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can be made in a year, whereas NanoLED printers can operate with much less downtime, not to

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mention that they cost less than a tenth of those vacuum chamber machines, which are

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sold exclusively by a small cabal of companies.

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And not only can NanoLEDs be produced on mass for cheap, but they also take much less power

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to operate, because there's no backlight or emitter layer. All the power goes directly to the quantum dots, meaning better battery life from old

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devices, as well as better HDR performances screens can get brighter without consuming

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tons of power. And unlike OLEDs, you don't have to worry about where over time your image burn in.

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The NanoLED panel can also be made to, you know, only about half a micron thick, so aside

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from conventional displays, you could have light up decals, car turbine signals, and

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unobtrusive wearables, where you can just get a TV that can be wall-mounted without

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being an Olympic powerlifter. Although use cases like these might sound speculative at the moment, several major companies

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including Samsung, Sharp, and TCL are already looking at developing NanoLED products.

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And NanoSys expects the first consumer devices featuring the technology to hit the market

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sometime around 2026. Hopefully NanoLED will make high quality displays so cheap that Black Friday specials won't

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even matter anymore. But we won't stop you from getting up at 3AM to go wrestle someone for an instant pot.

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