Will the upcoming PSP use OLED display?

[DrSpeed]

I'm hoping it does!!

[CliePet]

> Will the upcoming PSP use OLED display?
Upcoming version, nope.

Screen: 4.3 inch, 16:9 widescreen TFT LCD
480 x 272 pixel (16.77 million colors)
Max. 200 cd/m2 (with brightness control)

http://psp.ign.com/articles/513/513175p1.html#specs
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However if OLED catches on and manufacturing costs drop, I think you may see a more expensive PSP with OLED at some future date (ie. in a few years)

[Pdaman]

What sense is put old expensive tft display when is this new super good oled screen avaible ? I don't get those Sony guys. However i will consider HARD will i buy that sony psp.

[Reggie]

What sense is put old expensive tft display when is this new super good oled screen avaible ?

Cost. I would say to release it cheap in TFT. If it really becomes popular, release a special OLED version. ;)

[SonyStyle]

hey, the psp is already very expensive, if they put an OLED screen, it might even cost as much as the VZ

[zackepceo]

OLED screens are significantly less expensive than TFTs to produce.

[troydl]

Well putting an OLED screen might be nice but OLEDs have a notorious problem easilt found on the net so i'd prefer to have a longer lasting screen instead.

The problem is the lifetime of the OLED materials. In the display industry, lifetime is measured as the length of time it takes for the display to drop to one-half its initial brightness. Last year, red and green OLED materials had lifetimes of only 10,000 to 15,000 hours, but the big problem was that blue materials had lifetimes of less than 1,000 hours. This meant that the color of the panel would shift rapidly toward yellow as the blue materials dimmed.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1566133,00.asp

[zackepceo]

The blue shift problem was the last majour hurdle in the march to market for OLED. New high-energy polymers invented in May of 2004 have since solved the lifetime issue of the blue colour and the less publicised green problem.

[troydl]

Well it doesn't seem that way... Besides the supposed solution introduces new problems like layer shift etc. With a higher current requirement than LCDs (and to think we have battery limtiations now...) and the lower lifetime (though i really dont expect to use my PSP or PDA for 20 years or so) and the differential aging of the materials involved (expect uneven colorization after some time) i think putting it on devices which people expect to last for a several years at least may not be a good idea. Specially on the PSP since it will definitely be used far more oftenly (half a day?) than someone with a PDA (a few hours at most - and that would need recharging).

Until OLED manufacturing matures or at least develops to a point the way LCD have (good combination of life, quality, energy consumption and price) then i wouldnt want to buy something expensive that has it. But thats just me of course.

[zackepceo]

OLED displays use less power than LCDs even today in the infancy of the technology.. so the PSP would be a great canidate for one of these. Personally, I expect the PSP to fail.

[TriOptimum]

OLED isn't a standard technology yet, not many devices use it, and it hasn't been through the rounds on mainstream devices yet (I mean, like TST screens have). They're taking a risk intorducing the PSP in the first place, so they want to stick with well known, trustworthy screen technology, and the screen on the PSP is beatiful :). The DS has nothing (not even games, IMO) on the PSP ;).

Saying your not going to buy it or it's going to fail because it's not using OLED is like saying your new $4000 LCD or plasma tv is junk because it's not a OLED, or that your not buing that tv because it doesn't have it.

The PSP rocks, the only way it could fail is bad marketing (and hey, I'm certainly not saying Sony isn't capable of failing it because of bad marketing :P). But at under $20USD, I think it'll be a big competition to the DS soon at it's wordwide launch... even though it hasn't been annoucned here in the US I've seen it on tv commercials and coke cans :).

[zackepceo]

It's definately priced right, but so was the Game Gear.