I came to CES hoping to see one particular kind of display technology and after 4 days
of it eluding me I was starting to give up hope but then you guys I found it I found
what I was looking for and I think you're going to be extremely excited to hear about
it welcome back everyone I'm Caleb Denison and we are wrapping up our CES coverage I was just
about to take my bags to the airport when I heard that something I was looking for was actually at
the show so we rushed over to see it and I can't wait to show you I'm not going to hold all you TV
enthusiasts any longer what I'm talking about is QDEL or QDEL technology also known as Quantum do
electroluminescent display that's right folks it exists and not only does it exist it turns
out it's scalable and fairly easy to manufacture but I'll get into those details in just a moment
for those of you who don't know what the heck I'm talking about when I say cell let me give
you a little bit of a display primer we've got in one camp LCD televisions right these are the LED
or mini LED TVs or QLED TVs or ULED TVs these are TVs that use an LED backlight of some sort with an LCD
panel in front of it to make a picture they are backlit TVs they are also known as transmissive
in that they don't make their own life then we have our emissive displays that would include
OLED QD OLED and micro LED where the pixels themselves make their own light there is no
backlight involved whatsoever and we've enjoyed these displays for the past several years because
they offer true black levels infinite contrast and very high color luminance as well now it
used to be that OLED based displays didn't get very bright but over the years we've seen them
getting brighter and brighter and brighter so that advantage that led based TVs held over
OLED started to kind of disappear but OLED is an organic material and as such it is going to
wear out over time it does have some risk for burning and its longevity is not as great as
a mini LED TV with an LCD panel now today's QLED TVs and QD OLED TVs which we consider to be the
pinnacle of each type of display technology share one thing in common and that is the Q Quantum dots
Quantum dots are tiny little Nano particles that well until now have glowed when you shine light
on them what Quantum dots bring to the table is very high color purity and great efficiency when
you add them to a display things get much more vibrant and colorful now as TV enthusiasts for a
very long time now have been hoping that we would one day see a fully emissive quantum dot display
that means that the quantum dots at work in this display would not need some other light shown on
them to activate them they would be activated by electricity and glow on their own this would also
be an emissive display with perfect black levels and excellent color Purity but without all the
disadvantages that might come with an organic material that's in uh an OLED based television
and also without all the problems that come with having an LCD panel now it's important to make a
distinction here in both QD OLED and QLED TVs Quantum dots are implemented as a film right
they print them on a piece of film stick them in the panel and they do their job from there
cell is an entirely different animal these Quantum dots are going to be combined with an active TFT
Matrix and they will shine on their own and folks I feel like I've come way too far already without
mentioning that it is sharp display corporation that is made this happen that's right sharp has
taken the materials that it's gotten from nanosys which makes the quantum dot stuff and they have
finally developed a cell display that works on their EXO TFT Matrix technology EXO some of you
guys may remember from years and years ago is something that sharp has patented and used for
a long time now they can take these Quantum dots and and use them with their own active Matrix and
have a fully emissive quantum dot display no organic compounds no LEDs just Quantum dots
and folks we're talking about the pinnacle of color purity nothing should be able to touch it
if you were to chart out the red green and blue on a graph they would have the most pure peaks
we've ever seen from any display technology ever and what you're seeing right now is the proof of
that concept it is a small 12.3 in screen the box that you see underneath it is the power supply and
kind of the processing stuff it's a prototype keep in mind we're in a tiny little back room
where secrets are being discussed this isn't the big show floor where we get to see a whole bunch
of transparent OLED in a gigantic display we're in a tiny room where sharp is letting everybody know
that it's got this technology and it's ready to go and that's perhaps the most exciting thing about
this they tell me that unlike OLED you don't need a very special room to create these panels OLED
requires a vacuum you actually have to change the at atmosphere in order to produce OLED panels and
that's a big part of the cost involved in making OLED panels apparently this QDEL or QDEL display
can be made in the same manufacturing facilities as regular LCD displays in fact the same Machinery
can be used so it's not like they have to reinvent the wheel or build new manufacturing plants they
can start making this stuff right now the other important part of this is that it's scalable
sure what they're showing us right now in this uh prototype is a small 12-in display but they
also showed me a working 30in display that some engineer basically put together in a lab back in
Japan so they're proving that the technology works and they're proving that it can be scaled up now
what happens I know a lot of you want to know when this is going to be in your next TV and we don't
know that I don't think sharp knows that that depends on uh Sharp's customers sharp sees itself
right now deploying this maybe first as a mobile technology maybe it is going to be the new display
in your wearable watch uh maybe it appears in a phone they also will probably go after it based
displays so your laptops and maybe your computer monitors but if some electronics company out there
wants to make this happen bad enough and soon enough the technology can be made so it's really
outside of sharp display corporation's hands in terms of how long it is that we uh have to wait
to see this in an actual television now that's all the information that I have which I got to
say I think is plenty of information we wanted to know if ell was possible we wanted to know
if anybody was working on it we wanted to know if maybe there was a prototype has it been made to
work yet it has we know that now and we know that this technology is going to be coming to us in the
years to come now there is a special conference called s that's going to take place later this
year and I do think that sharp is going to present some advancements in this technology at that show
that's a show that I don't normally go to but you can bet I'm going to go to that show this year
just to see this technology in action and that's it folks I'm super excited to have found this I am
super excited to be one of the few who actually got to show it to you I think that is a perfect
way to wrap up CES this is the stuff I live for the little back room secret technology that
literally defines the future in this case in terms of displays thanks as always for watching everyone
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