John Siracusa
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Like, I can't do the math on how many pixels there are in a 4k TV, but there's a lot.
And if you need to like place them individually and connect wires to them, that's not the way you do things.
You need to be able to essentially print them.
That's why they're like Japanese companies have these printable LEDs where you kind of use like an inkjet printer, kind of the same way they print the LCD stuff.
So far, there's been no manufacturing breakthrough.
that technology continues to be a curiosity for extremely rich people.
Uh, and it looks real cool at CES, but there's a bunch of other technologies too.
I like, I don't remember the acronyms off the top of my head, but there's a bunch of other ways to produce pixels that make light besides OLEDs.
They're just like in the experimental stage where they'll show like a postage stamp size, little experimental thing in a back room at CES and say, maybe someday we can make TVs out of this.
If someone actually eventually does it and it becomes manufacturable, I'm sure you'll hear about it here from me.
But for now, it's QD OLED and Tandem OLED.
And honestly, Tandem OLED is very exciting.
That's what Apple's M6 MacBook Pros are going to use sometime later this year, rumors have it.
And that's what the iPad uses now.
I'm excited about that because it's a really good technology and those screens look great.
So I'm happy with what we have.
But yeah, micro LED.
And boy, the naming, I'm...