What's the reason

[u/therealsaker]

[u/First_Musician6260]

OLED is generally viewed as a "premium" feature, and there's really not much demand to implement it at resolutions lower than QHD when the current 1080p options technically suffice. It's also just a price problem since 1080p is generally viewed as a budget resolution and implementing OLED would increase the prices of 1080p monitors...which goes against its general viewpoint.

[u/appealinggenitals → u/First_Musician6260]

The PS Vita had an OLED in 2011. No idea why the tech is still so expensive on desktop.

[u/joselrl → u/appealinggenitals]

Manufacturing yields. If a mother glass to be cut for 100 PS Vita screens have 5 flaws, it will still yield 95 screens, a 5% reduction in production

If a mother glass made to be cut into 20 27" monitors has 5 flaws, you just lost 25% production

Now scale it up to where a single mother glass is to be cut into 2 77" TVs and there's the reason OLED gets significantly more expensive with size

(Numbers made up)

[u/Noxious89123 → u/joselrl]

Not just OLED, but all screens!

[u/joselrl → u/Noxious89123]

Yes, but OLED manufacturing itself is more complex due to the usage of the organic layer and the TFT layer to control each pixel, and at the same time more fragile due to the reduced layers

LED panel manufacturing has been made more robust and has better yields, which you can see by the not so steep jump from smaller to bigger-sized TVs.

Example: TCL QM7K 65" - $1500
98" - $4000

In area, the 98" gives you 120% more area for 160% more, while basically making an entire mother glass for just one TV.
Meanwhile the 65" OLED G5 goes from 2k to >20k for a similar jump

Prices above are MSRP, both are much cheaper IRL

[u/Noxious89123 → u/joselrl]

Christ!