Typically, products that claim to perform better than what the pros use for an impossibly
low price are the province of late night infomercials, and of course that chef quality
cookware you paid 20 bucks for is going to be worn out in a few months.
But there's something coming in a few years that should give you unparalleled image quality
for a third of what you pay for even a cheap display today.
And it's actually not micro-led, as while that's pretty cool, it's currently super
expensive and probably will be for a while. Instead, I'm talking about a new type of display panel called Nanoled.
And to find out more about it, we've spoke with Nanosys, the company developing the tech,
and we'd like to thank their CEO, Jason Hartlove, as well as Jeff Urik for helping us out with
this video. Nanoled is actually based on quantum dots, which you may have seen being used in many
TVs in recent years in the form of an enhancement layer inserted into the existing LCD stack.
Quantum dot displays are marketed as having more true-to-life colors because each tiny
dot inside of the display can emit a pure color, either pure red or pure green.
Some displays also utilize pure blue quantum dots, while others feature a blue backlight
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
for a result that's often good enough, but isn't nearly as accurate.
Even many expensive OLED displays, which have self-lit pixels that don't need a backlight,
still use a color filter. So while conventional OLED gives you deep blacks in great contrast, they don't give
the most accurate colors. More recently, QT OLED displays have hit the market that combine the best of both worlds,
per pixel lighting and quantum dots for both great color and great contrast.
These displays lose the enhancement film in favor of inkjet printing the quantum dots
directly onto the display substrate, but they're still using light emitters to excite the quantum
dots. And those OLED emitters are really expensive thanks to a complicated manufacturing process
that requires them to be vaporized in a vacuum chamber at 700 degrees Celsius, not to mention
the pricey sheets of special glass that actually form the panel.
But NanoLED promises the same picture quality without all this complicated engineering.
The main idea behind NanoLED is that you still have the same red, green, and blue quantum
dots, but instead of having a separate light source that excites the quantum dots, which
is how current displays work, NanoLED delivers an electric charge directly to the quantum
dots, which is a huge deal for a few reasons. First and foremost, you don't need that complex vacuum chamber vaporization process.
Unlike OLED, quantum dots are stable in regular air, meaning that NanoLED displays can basically
be made by just inkjet printing the dots onto a cheaper, lighter surface like plastic.
Additionally, those vacuum chambers take a long time to reset, limiting how many panels
can be made in a year, whereas NanoLED printers can operate with much less downtime, not to
mention that they cost less than a tenth of those vacuum chamber machines, which are
sold exclusively by a small cabal of companies.
And not only can NanoLEDs be produced on mass for cheap, but they also take much less power
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
devices, as well as better HDR performances screens can get brighter without consuming
tons of power. And unlike OLEDs, you don't have to worry about where over time your image burn in.
The NanoLED panel can also be made to, you know, only about half a micron thick, so aside
from conventional displays, you could have light up decals, car turbine signals, and
unobtrusive wearables, where you can just get a TV that can be wall-mounted without
being an Olympic powerlifter. Although use cases like these might sound speculative at the moment, several major companies
including Samsung, Sharp, and TCL are already looking at developing NanoLED products.
And NanoSys expects the first consumer devices featuring the technology to hit the market
sometime around 2026. Hopefully NanoLED will make high quality displays so cheap that Black Friday specials won't
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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