You're certainly joking, but OLEDs have black black, too. The characteristic of plasmas is that, rather than emitting from the entire backlight, and blocking (99% of) the light where you want black, they only emit where you want light, and only as much light as you want. OLEDs are the same way, as are CRTs; but CRTs have a separate trouble where it's hard to turn the electron intensity completely down, because the beam scans every pixel whether you want it lit or not; OLEDs or plasmas simply don't illuminate black pixels.
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Anthony @ Apr 3rd 2008 7:59AM
lol great now we have screen wars !!
oled vs 1.5v plasma ... ehh i believe oled already this one (*hint flexable !)
tom @ Apr 3rd 2008 8:31AM
We can now say, my cell phone screen has "blacker" black =P
unlike all others!
Benson @ Apr 3rd 2008 10:15AM
You're certainly joking, but OLEDs have black black, too. The characteristic of plasmas is that, rather than emitting from the entire backlight, and blocking (99% of) the light where you want black, they only emit where you want light, and only as much light as you want. OLEDs are the same way, as are CRTs; but CRTs have a separate trouble where it's hard to turn the electron intensity completely down, because the beam scans every pixel whether you want it lit or not; OLEDs or plasmas simply don't illuminate black pixels.