New Monitor Technologies Are Crazy

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New Monitor Technologies Are Crazy

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So WOLED uses RGBW subpixels with color filters to create your display, which is perfectly reasonable engineering. But WOLOLOLED? That's just four blue subpixels passing through a "Wololololo Filter" consisting of... dancing wizards?

For the uninitiated: "Wololo" is the iconic sound from Age of Empires where priests convert enemy units by chanting, and they literally change color to join your team. So instead of sophisticated color filter technology, WOLOLOLED just converts everything to blue through the power of medieval religious persuasion. The subpixel notation changes from *RGBW to *BBBB because why have color diversity when you can just convert everyone to Team Blue?

Honestly, if Samsung or LG announced this at CES with a straight face, half the tech reviewers would probably write articles about it before realizing they'd been pranked. "Revolutionary new conversion-based display technology promises 100% blue accuracy."

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