WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.120 Typically, products that claim to perform better than what the pros use for an impossibly 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:09.720 low price are the province of late night infomercials, and of course that chef quality 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:13.360 cookware you paid 20 bucks for is going to be worn out in a few months. 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:18.160 But there's something coming in a few years that should give you unparalleled image quality 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:21.480 for a third of what you pay for even a cheap display today. 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:26.320 And it's actually not micro-led, as while that's pretty cool, it's currently super 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:32.800 expensive and probably will be for a while. Instead, I'm talking about a new type of display panel called Nanoled. 00:00:32.800 --> 00:00:36.520 And to find out more about it, we've spoke with Nanosys, the company developing the tech, 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:40.360 and we'd like to thank their CEO, Jason Hartlove, as well as Jeff Urik for helping us out with 00:00:40.360 --> 00:00:46.200 this video. Nanoled is actually based on quantum dots, which you may have seen being used in many 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:51.400 TVs in recent years in the form of an enhancement layer inserted into the existing LCD stack. 00:00:51.400 --> 00:00:54.920 Quantum dot displays are marketed as having more true-to-life colors because each tiny 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:59.440 dot inside of the display can emit a pure color, either pure red or pure green. 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:03.920 Some displays also utilize pure blue quantum dots, while others feature a blue backlight 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:11.160 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 00:01:11.160 --> 00:01:15.480 for a result that's often good enough, but isn't nearly as accurate. 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:20.400 Even many expensive OLED displays, which have self-lit pixels that don't need a backlight, 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:26.200 still use a color filter. So while conventional OLED gives you deep blacks in great contrast, they don't give 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:32.240 the most accurate colors. More recently, QT OLED displays have hit the market that combine the best of both worlds, 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:37.080 per pixel lighting and quantum dots for both great color and great contrast. 00:01:37.080 --> 00:01:41.200 These displays lose the enhancement film in favor of inkjet printing the quantum dots 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:46.800 directly onto the display substrate, but they're still using light emitters to excite the quantum 00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:52.240 dots. And those OLED emitters are really expensive thanks to a complicated manufacturing process 00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:57.680 that requires them to be vaporized in a vacuum chamber at 700 degrees Celsius, not to mention 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.720 the pricey sheets of special glass that actually form the panel. 00:02:00.720 --> 00:02:04.880 But NanoLED promises the same picture quality without all this complicated engineering. 00:02:04.880 --> 00:02:08.640 The main idea behind NanoLED is that you still have the same red, green, and blue quantum 00:02:08.640 --> 00:02:12.680 dots, but instead of having a separate light source that excites the quantum dots, which 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:17.300 is how current displays work, NanoLED delivers an electric charge directly to the quantum 00:02:17.300 --> 00:02:24.900 dots, which is a huge deal for a few reasons. First and foremost, you don't need that complex vacuum chamber vaporization process. 00:02:24.900 --> 00:02:29.980 Unlike OLED, quantum dots are stable in regular air, meaning that NanoLED displays can basically 00:02:29.980 --> 00:02:35.020 be made by just inkjet printing the dots onto a cheaper, lighter surface like plastic. 00:02:35.020 --> 00:02:39.500 Additionally, those vacuum chambers take a long time to reset, limiting how many panels 00:02:39.500 --> 00:02:43.780 can be made in a year, whereas NanoLED printers can operate with much less downtime, not to 00:02:43.780 --> 00:02:47.420 mention that they cost less than a tenth of those vacuum chamber machines, which are 00:02:47.420 --> 00:02:50.420 sold exclusively by a small cabal of companies. 00:02:50.420 --> 00:02:55.120 And not only can NanoLEDs be produced on mass for cheap, but they also take much less power 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:01.340 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 00:03:01.340 --> 00:03:05.580 devices, as well as better HDR performances screens can get brighter without consuming 00:03:05.580 --> 00:03:10.220 tons of power. And unlike OLEDs, you don't have to worry about where over time your image burn in. 00:03:10.220 --> 00:03:15.140 The NanoLED panel can also be made to, you know, only about half a micron thick, so aside 00:03:15.140 --> 00:03:20.500 from conventional displays, you could have light up decals, car turbine signals, and 00:03:20.500 --> 00:03:24.100 unobtrusive wearables, where you can just get a TV that can be wall-mounted without 00:03:24.100 --> 00:03:30.180 being an Olympic powerlifter. Although use cases like these might sound speculative at the moment, several major companies 00:03:30.180 --> 00:03:34.940 including Samsung, Sharp, and TCL are already looking at developing NanoLED products. 00:03:34.940 --> 00:03:38.780 And NanoSys expects the first consumer devices featuring the technology to hit the market 00:03:38.780 --> 00:03:45.060 sometime around 2026. Hopefully NanoLED will make high quality displays so cheap that Black Friday specials won't 00:03:45.060 --> 00:03:50.700 even matter anymore. But we won't stop you from getting up at 3AM to go wrestle someone for an instant pot. 00:03:50.700 --> 00:03:53.980 Thanks for watching guys, like, dislike, check out some of our other videos, comment with 00:03:53.980 --> 00:03:56.420 video suggestions down below, and don't forget to subscribe and follow.