Samsung's next-gen OLED panels could upgrade to five-figure pixel densities:
A new paper [DOI: 10.1126/science.abc8530] [DX] in the journal Science describes a new and revolutionary type of OLED panel. It may boost the material's pixel counts, brightness and general quality by a significant margin, thanks to a Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) scientist's idea to apply the latest in photonics for solar panels
This research has resulted in the development of a new kind of reflective bottom layer for these devices. They are made of metal processed to exhibit a specific texture at the nanoscopic level. These "corrugations" harness recent breakthroughs in the understanding of how light behaves at the same scale
[...] the experimental panel's pixels had a "higher color purity and a twofold increase in luminescence efficiency" compared to regular OLED. These results also translated to a density of about 10,000 pixels per inch (ppi). For context, even the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra has one of just under 500 ppi.
On the other hand, the Science paper's authors base these findings on a relatively small prototype panel. However, SAIT appears confident that it can be scaled up quickly and easily. Therefore, we might see this ultra-dense, color-rich and bright new form of OLED in real-world devices fairly soon.
Also at IEEE Spectrum.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday October 27 2020, @07:53PM (7 children)
Samsung, do we really need higher resolution in the display panel part of a TV?
What we really need is much higher resolution in the camera part of a
telescreenTV.Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Unixnut on Tuesday October 27 2020, @10:33PM (2 children)
What I would like is not a higher resolution on the OLED panel, but an improvement in longevity, an increase in screen size, and a reduction in cost.
If they manage all that, and put out a laptop or desktop OLED display for an affordable price, we will have finally reached the best of CRT and LCD worlds. The colour redention and contrast of CRT, with the flatness and lightness of LCD/flat panels.
Having 10,000 dpi is cool from a bragging side of things, but of more use would be more OLED panels, available in larger sizes, longer lasting and cheaper. That would be a game changer IMO.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 27 2020, @10:46PM
MicroLED [wikipedia.org] ticks your boxes. It doesn't have the longevity/burn-in issues associated with OLED. It is starting out at larger screen sizes because it needs additional work to make each pixel smaller before it can go into high-resolution smartphones, etc. Price is much higher for now because it's the newer technology.
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(Score: 2) by deimtee on Wednesday October 28 2020, @01:40AM
I would like a better colour gamut.
200 million years is actually quite a long time.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday October 27 2020, @10:41PM (1 child)
The obvious application here is VR headsets, which might demand even greater pixel density.
We already have 8K TVs that you can go out and buy. I doubt we will see over 16K resolution on mainstream TVs, though it would be funny.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by stormwyrm on Wednesday October 28 2020, @07:36AM
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Wednesday October 28 2020, @02:59AM (1 child)
What we really need is much higher resolution in the camera part of a telescreen TV.
I know you're making a joke, but honestly, the pixel densities on modern smartphone cameras are ridiculous. 12-16MP in a phone camera is not unusual these days, and the lens size is absolutely tiny. Many years ago, I did some work with spy cameras that had lenses this size, but the rest of the camera (electronics etc.) behind the lens was much, much larger than the amount of space in a modern phone allocated to the entire camera module, and the resolution was utter crap (NTSC TV resolution at best). They were B/W too, not 32-bit color.
I just don't see why we'd need cameras with much higher resolution than what we already have, at least not until we have wall-size display panels like in the first Total Recall movie where you would want the display resolution so high that you can walk up to it and still feel like you're looking out a window, and we're not *that* far away from that with 8k displays.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday October 28 2020, @02:11PM
Having a higher resolution does allow someone to crop out a small portion of the image that has some interesting tidbit, and still have plenty of pixels representing that interesting small feature.
Vaguely like what Rick Deckard does in blade runner.
Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2020, @08:09PM (22 children)
I wonder if Hunter Biden's next laptop will have super-octo-deluxe resolution. Not his old one, since he left it in the repair shop, and the FBI is now investigating it for influence peddling, money laundering, Chinese payola, child porn, and bad hair transplants.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2020, @08:20PM (4 children)
Did Giuliani ever find his mask in his pants?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2020, @09:54PM (1 child)
Video by Borat News Service.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 28 2020, @02:06AM
I find Borat a much better newshead than Steve Bannon & Co. Which says a lot, keeping into account how little I like Borat.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 28 2020, @02:04AM
I can't see any more applicable mod than "Touche" for situations like this.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2020, @04:57AM
At least he only looked in his own pants.
(Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday October 27 2020, @11:50PM (16 children)
Yeah, it'd be nice to identify the exact public lice species those girls had.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 28 2020, @02:10AM (15 children)
You mean... Giuliani wasn't their first public lice?
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by legont on Wednesday October 28 2020, @01:48PM (14 children)
Giuliani was the chief of police of NY and than a mayor. He would be the US president if not for cancer, but I want to remind a different story.
Giuliani's pet project was to get Mark Rich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich [wikipedia.org] who traded oil with Iran under embargo. He also traded Soviet oil with South Africa under embargo reloading it tankers to tankers in the middle of the Atlantic. That's how Glencore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencore [wikipedia.org] started and the relationships with Soviets who later became oligarch. That's where, based on rumors, Putin's money is.
Giuliani once sent a US supersonic bomber to Finland to intercept a meeting between Rich and Russian gangsters in Helsinki. Swissair with Rich on board who was heading to Helsinki magically returned back to Switzerland mid-flight.
The result? Clinton pardoned Mark Rich.
Giuliani has a very deep shit hole prepared for democrats in general and Clintons in particular. He will not stop until they are all in prison for good. It's Giuliani's life time project.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 28 2020, @02:56PM (12 children)
Thanks, nice bedtime story, I'll fall asleep easier.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday October 28 2020, @03:27PM (11 children)
Just check it out yourself please, will you? It's all from 90s well before Clinton's times so political influences are not significant.
Also, how come our lovely conversation does not come up on the page?
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 28 2020, @03:54PM (10 children)
I looked, really. But I doubt Giuliani is the same man as 30 years ago and/or that he's still able to do something today (the only consequence that I reckon it will have is the one the bedstories have, hence my reply).
But... it comes, I traced it from the story's page. Or I didn't get what you mean by "doesn't not come up on the page".
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday October 28 2020, @03:57PM (6 children)
I don't see it while viewing this topic.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 28 2020, @04:16PM (5 children)
Read at -1, the first post of the thread [soylentnews.org] is modded troll.
BTW, here's an overview on the state of the "laptop story" [politico.com]
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday October 28 2020, @04:29PM (4 children)
I have not seen troll moderation in my list. Also, why would it censor the whole thread, including you? And especially, why would it censor it from me, the author? One week before the election. This, if it is the case, got to change or I will employ a bunch of moderators for $10 to fucking moderate anything out I don't like. Be warned.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 28 2020, @04:37PM (3 children)
Chill down, mate. It is not your post that's modded Troll, it is the first post of this thread (by an A/C) that is mod-ed as such.
Go here [soylentnews.org] and adjust the Threshold to "-1 Uncut and Raw", see if it makes a difference.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday October 28 2020, @09:22PM (2 children)
So, if the root of the thread is modded down, so the rest of the thread? Really? Nice...
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 28 2020, @10:45PM
IDK, that was an assumption I made about the behaviour. Did it work for you in the end?
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday October 29 2020, @05:03PM
Correct, unless one of the child comments is modded at 4 or above. Then, it will show up, if the original comment is marked troll.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday October 28 2020, @04:07PM (2 children)
Look, bro, I really have no bias here. I have followed this story since the early 90s article in Playboy. How Mark Rich fucked Solomon Brothers for not paying him fee when he knew about Arab embargo on oil. How he opened Gelencore. How he made friends with Russians. How it became a many many billions business. How he bribed Clintons and how he got his pardon. I am the same as Giuliani in this regard. It was my story of immigration to America. He, well, he is a police bulldog. He bites and never releases. He is alpha male which I am not. I actually met him. I think he can't sleep untill he gets the pray. And his pray used to be Mark Rich and now it is Clintons and Bidens. Like it or not, he will either die or get them.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 28 2020, @04:25PM (1 child)
I didn't imply you had one. I only tried to show you why I think Giuliani is likely at the "inconsequential" stage of life - not even FoxNews shows any deference to him.
Frankly, this is how I see Giuliani today. I might be wrong tho', but I don't think I am this time.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday October 28 2020, @04:36PM
He was always like this all his life. I have seen it myself. I had my car broken into every 3 months in Brooklyn on schedule. Once he was there, he in under a week got a black teenager gang doing it and my car was never touched ever since. He removed all the whores - which I did not like - and they moved to Canada. Giuliani is a police dog pure and simple. He is after his main prey right now and he will not stop. He might die or be killed, but he will not stop. Watch it.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 28 2020, @03:17PM
You mean this Giuliani [theguardian.com]? The one who's so easy to make lose his temper by pushing his "public image" buttons? Even TMB with his fishing dingy is better than that.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Touché) by MIRV888 on Tuesday October 27 2020, @09:13PM (11 children)
Because sh1t is getting star trek real fast.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2020, @01:43AM
Not to worry, with exponential growth, 100 years only takes 10!
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday October 28 2020, @03:04AM (2 children)
>Because sh1t is getting star trek real fast.
You mean the part about the Eugenics Wars and WWIII, which nearly destroyed human civilization (except for some refugees living next to a missile silo that some really smart guy figured out how to convert into a warp-capable spacecraft)?
Accord to Star Trek canon, the 21st century was pretty horrible. And like many of its other predictions (such as tablet computers and communicators), this one appears to be coming true as well.
(Score: 1) by MIRV888 on Wednesday October 28 2020, @06:52AM (1 child)
Umm, no. While there will certainly be wars, disasters & death. I was referring to huge growth in new technology.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday October 29 2020, @04:59AM
That was just because the Vulcans visited. Without them, the tattered remains of humanity would just be hanging around in outdoor camps, singing drinking songs. Or perhaps conquered and turned into subjects of the Klingon Empire.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday October 28 2020, @01:58PM (6 children)
Maybe it's getting blade runner reel fast.
Or The Matrix.
Or the VGER planet.
Or Planet of the Apes.
The thing about star trek, while fun, was that it always had an unrealistic view of everything being peace, no conflicts, everyone plays nice, bad people can be talked into being good with a quick feel good speech. The problem is humans.
Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Thursday October 29 2020, @05:04AM (5 children)
>The thing about star trek, while fun, was that it always had an unrealistic view of everything being peace, no conflicts, everyone plays nice, bad people can be talked into being good with a quick feel good speech. The problem is humans.
That's because Star Trek is about humanity in a parallel universe, or "mirror universe". The show alluded to this on a few occasions. What most people didn't get is that the universe depicted in most of the series was not the universe we live in; instead, we live in what's shown as the "mirror universe". Notice how all the humans were despicable, evil conquerors in the mirror universe? Just look around America today and you'll see that the mirror universe inhabitants are *us*.
The whole reason Star Trek is so fun to watch (or was, until the 21st century installments...) is because it shows a society that most of its viewership (a small minority of our society) fantasizes about. If you want to watch a show that shows something more like the universe we inhabit, watch Game of Thrones, and pay close attention to the Lannisters for parallels to Americans.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday October 29 2020, @03:18PM (4 children)
One of the things that attracted me to B5, before I even realized it was a single epic story, was that it had a more realistic, grittier and more realistic view of the future. I could see conflict everywhere. Between races. Among humans and within Earth government. The Psi Corps, (are your friend) etc.
Yet it was not too excessively dark.
This is something I did not like about the Battlestar Galactica remake. 1st season was good. 2nd season was dark. Then it just kept getting darker. And despite what fans were told about there being an overall story, it never really seemed to materialize. But by the end of season 3, I decided I had come that far, and stuck out season 4 only to be massively disappointed with the final episodes.
Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday October 29 2020, @03:39PM (3 children)
I never got into B5, probably because it seemed too realistic to me, and having way too much politics. The whole reason I like watching ST:TNG is because everyone is extremely competent and there isn't a lot of completely pointless and idiotic interpersonal conflict, which seems to be necessary to fuel the plot in so many stories. There's conflict, of course, but it's between larger political factions usually (Federation vs. Romulans, for instance), and occasionally between rogue agents/groups and everyone else (like the episode about the rogue group in Starfleet that developed a cloaking device in contravention of the Romulan treaty, and had Riker torn between loyalty to the Federation and his former captain). There's no idiotic bickering between crew members unless someone's caught an alien virus and gone crazy. I see enough idiotic bickering in real life; I don't need to see it in a show that depicts a utopian future.
However, I did enjoy Game of Thrones (except maybe the last season), even though it was full of interpersonal conflict, though I guess to me it wasn't completely pointless. Some characters were actively evil (Ramsey), which is similar to real life, and others did have understandable positions and reasons for taking the sides they did.
BSG (remake) I liked, up until the 3rd season. The thing about there being an overall story was BS; it was just like LOST: they were just making it up as they went along and got renewed each season. This is the problem with so many shows. BSG started out fantastic with the mini-series, then steadily went downhill from there. When they landed on New Caprica and then got occupied, that was where things really went downhill. The later stuff about the "Final 5" was just idiotic, and surely could not have been planned in advance.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday October 29 2020, @04:34PM (2 children)
Your last paragraph about BSG sums it up perfectly. Agree.
I didn't see so much inter personal conflict in B5. But larger conflict between governments. Or factions within governments or races of people. Everyone seemed competent. But there was no "Treknobabble". (I loved Treknobabble at first, but then TNG started using it as a magical plot device to resolve the major problem of the episode. Oh, I'll just invert the modulation of the something-or-other.)
I love TOS because I grew up with it. I also love TNG because in young adult life I grew up with it. I postponed watching DS9 for many years. Having a kid at the time of both DS9 and B5, I realized I could not possibly watch both. Two complex stories, each with multiple races, conflicts, politics, religion, etc. So I picked B5 which was much more novel. I was very glad I did. It seemed like "alien of the week" at first. But near the end of 1st season I got the feeling there was a much larger story going on. By early in season 2 all doubt disappeared.
I'm currently watching DS9 for the 2nd time. Seen TOS and TNG more times than can count. One thing I love about DS9 is how it adds so much richness to the Federation universe. Politics. Earth is a paradise, as one would expect from Trek, but further out, things are not so perfect. Finally you get to see huge fleets of starships. And actual shooting wars.
I did try Voyager but was gradually disappointed. By season 4 I was getting very tired of Voyager. I even made it into early season 5 before giving up. I did watch the final couple episodes, and I'm glad I did, because I liked the ending. The builders of Voyager did have the foresight to equip Voyager with an infinite number of shuttle craft, and that is something none of the designers of other federation vessels had the foresight to do. (I think that was a stupid mistake in Voyager.) Voyager is alone with no help. They sometimes face far more powerful opponents, yet magically manage to come through against unbelievable odds, with a hat trick. But then do this over and over.
I never bothered with the Enterprise series. Almost did once, but at this point, I probably never will.
I was disgusted with the new trek movies that decide to rewind the last 40 years of history so they can rewrite it all. No thanks. I've grown up with a lifetime of Trek, and I don't care to now have to learn a new, different trek universe. Consequently, I've deliberately avoided all of the new trek movies and series after that. I just don't have any interest. I stick to the old TOS/TNG. And B5.
I would need serious convincing to commit to Game of Thrones. I think that's on HBO and I do have that.
Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday October 29 2020, @08:52PM (1 child)
I didn't see so much inter personal conflict in B5. But larger conflict between governments. Or factions within governments or races of people. Everyone seemed competent.
I should probably give B5 another try. I was in college at the time and didn't have time for TV. I never did get much into DS9; I think I saw the 1st season.
I never bothered with the Enterprise series. Almost did once, but at this point, I probably never will.
I turned up my nose at ENT when it was new, but ended up watching it on Netflix with a friend at her urging, many years later. It's really not that bad, and I think it was underrated. The biggest thing I didn't like was the whole Xindi arc in season 3, and how this obviously was inspired by the 9/11 terrorist attack. Outside of that season, it's more like traditional Trek, with standalone episodes of exploration. Season 4 is the best, but the last and it's obvious they knew this when making it. Also, it has 2 utterly fantastic episodes in season 4 that are only about the Mirror Universe. The very worst thing about ENT was the intro song; WTF were they thinking? Luckily, on Netflix, you can instantly skip past it. However, do NOT skip the intro in the Mirror Universe episodes!! That intro is fantastic, both the music and the visuals. They really show what we humans (in this universe) will be doing if we get our hands on alien FTL tech.
I was disgusted with the new trek movies that decide to rewind the last 40 years of history so they can rewrite it all.
I saw the first JJTrek movie and was disgusted. It's not just the invention of a different timeline with Vulcan destroyed, it's the whole thing. The whole story is just dumb, all of it. The only good things I can say about it are the bridges (on both Kirk's father's ship, and on Kirk's ship) look nice, and the phasers make more sense (firing short energy bolts instead of long-lasting beams).
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday October 30 2020, @02:12PM
B5 has a cult following. It's like an epic novel. JMS wanted to tell two stories. What happens if you put people together in a tin can. He also wanted to tell large scale stories about the rise and fall of empires. It tells of what happened in the past, and what happens to the human race in the medium and distant future. It is really huge. That's what makes it so interesting. Despite not having the kind of budget DS9 had.
Like TNG you'll find that DS9 really hits its stride at about third season.
DS9 has some really good and oddball episodes. The mirror universe. What is the real story with the 1947 Roswell flying saucer. What really happened in the TOS episode The Trouble With Tribbles. A whole lot more about the Ferengi race, Klingon race, and Cardassian and Bajoran races. Other oddball episodes I didn't mention. Use of a solar sail spacecraft because someone is rumored to have successfully done it many centuries ago. Much more.
Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2020, @02:01AM
I'll pass.
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday October 28 2020, @03:39PM (2 children)
Who and why deleted mine and c0lo's messages from this news topic?
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 28 2020, @04:44PM
They aren't deleted, I'm able to find them
Something is wrong on your side, either your (browsing) S/N setting or maybe the browser you are using got in a "confused" state. IDK what can be wrong, but as sure as death and taxes, I'm able to find the messages starting from the load of the story page.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2020, @06:18PM
This is why I always browse at -1. Check your settings and you can adjust the thresholds.