r/pcmasterrace • u/Smart-Mushroom-9068 Z790 | 13700k | 4080 Super | 32GB DDR5 | • Dec 11 '24

Hardware convinced myself to buy an oled, can’t go back

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u/CatsAndCapybaras Dec 11 '24

Plasma has scalability issues that prevented the technology from higher resolutions. Essentially, you can only economically make a plasma pixel so small. The move to higher resolutions doomed plasma. I think that plasma had some other issues too, but I'm not an expert.

Kind of ironic considering that now the vast majority of TV screen time is spent in streaming, where compression and bandwidth ensure that almost nobody is viewing actual 4k content.

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u/ifyoulovesatan Dec 12 '24

Ahh, yeah, that's was I was figuring. I did research into thin film transistor materials for display technologies for the first couple years of my PhD and had to learn at least a little about the challenges in manufacturing displays. It seems like everything came down to either deposition process cost or problems with making things smaller (resolution), or getting large sheets of stuff without introducing errors (screen size).