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Worth switch off OLED display on MP3 players?
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| I have an MP3 player powered from an AAA cell and with an OLED display.
There is a setting which lets me dim the display after a selectable
delay (up to 15 seconds).
I believe the power consumption of OLED is at least as low as LCD. So
it seems to me that if I leave the display on permanently then I would
use negligible extra power from the battery. Is this correct?
Is there another reason to want to dim the display?
Maybe an image displayed for a long time would burn itself into the
display as a ghost image. Would this happen to a noticeable extent?
So overall, is it alright to set my MP3's OLED display to ALWAYS ON?
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| Pooh Bear 2006-06-20, 9:25 am |
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Jim wrote:
> I have an MP3 player powered from an AAA cell and with an OLED display.
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> There is a setting which lets me dim the display after a selectable
> delay (up to 15 seconds).
>
> I believe the power consumption of OLED is at least as low as LCD. So
> it seems to me that if I leave the display on permanently then I would
> use negligible extra power from the battery. Is this correct?
>
> Is there another reason to want to dim the display?
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> Maybe an image displayed for a long time would burn itself into the
> display as a ghost image. Would this happen to a noticeable extent?
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> So overall, is it alright to set my MP3's OLED display to ALWAYS ON?
It's up to you but OLEDs use *much* more power than LCDs.
Graham
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| Dave Platt 2006-06-20, 1:25 pm |
| >I believe the power consumption of OLED is at least as low as LCD. So
>it seems to me that if I leave the display on permanently then I would
>use negligible extra power from the battery. Is this correct?
Nope. OLEDs do use more power than a reflective LCD. They're
probably more fairly compared to a transmissive LCD with an active
backlight. Since AAA cells are pretty wimpy, you'll probably extend
your MP3 player's run time significantly by dimming the display.
>Maybe an image displayed for a long time would burn itself into the
>display as a ghost image. Would this happen to a noticeable extent?
The hardware engineers I work with tell me that OLEDs do have a
burn-in problem, if they're used steadily and if the average
brightnesses of the individual pixels is not kept equal over the long
term. So, yes, you may reduce burn-in/ghosting problems on your
display by dimming it whenever feasible.
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> Jim wrote:
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On 20 Jun 2006, Pooh Bear wrote:[color=darkred]
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> It's up to you but OLEDs use *much* more power than LCDs.
I went and took another look and saw that passive OLEDs (which I
portbably have got in my MP3 player) take more power than active
OLEDs.
Also seems that some pople compare OLED with LCD + backlight
(backlight is about half the total power used)
http://www.wave-report.com/tutorials/oled.htm
This page ignore backlighting "OLEDs do not require backlighting,
they consume much less power than LCDs. Most of the power in an LCD
is consumed by the backlight."
<http://www.electronicproducts.com/ShowPage.asp?
FileName=onestopdisplays.jun2006.html>
Am not too sure what the following article concludes about power but
it seems very relevant.
<http://powerelectronics.com/power_m...ers/power_power
ing_passive_oled/>
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