Edge-Lit, Thin LCD TVs Are Having Early Heat Death Issues

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As for why EL LCDs still exist since they seem to require extreme heatsinking to keep the LEDs from melting straight through the LCD? RTINGS figures it’s because EL allows for LCD TVs to be thinner, allowing them to compete with OLEDs while selling at a premium compared to even FALD LCDs.

  People need to stop buying the thinnest thing.

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People need to stop buying the thinnest thing

    Yeah, I think one of the problems is that thin is a familiar and commonly reported spec for a display. If MTTF were reported — and it should be! — then I think the problem would sort itself out.

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  • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do people buy the thinnest thing? Laptops or phones maybe to some extent, but TVs I sincerely doubt.

    And having gotten to interact with the real process of product development, I gotta say in my (relatively narrow) experience it’s based a lot more on vibes/politics than market research or focus groups.

    I can totally see “make it as thin as XYZ” being a hard requirement for no better reason than a PM felt strongly about it, and no-one had all three infinity stones necessary to call them out (engineering knowledge, understanding of the PD pipeline, and political capital).

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do people buy the thinnest thing? Laptops or phones maybe to some extent, but TVs I sincerely doubt.

      Some people like the glamour of super thin TVs, they’re a bit like fancy sculptures… But I’d wager most people just get the cheapest TV at their preferred size, with some accommodation for perceived quality or features.

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  • theluckyone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what she said.

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  • Zanz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then ruins oleds too. Oled need giant heat sinks to work properly, but they’ve been being very thin and having plastic bags so they can look sleek. It’s especially obnoxious because full array LCDs and uniform thickness OLED are much thinner than the protruding bulge that comes out on most super thin TVs.

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• I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t run them at full brightness and you should be ok.

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  • Celestus@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And also avoid using HDR

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also it’s edge lit. Just get a full array local dinning version

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