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Originally Posted by dcb
oled is interesting, but may also suffer in direct sunlight.
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Yeah, I think they're demonstrating it's performance on that product page. If you look at the first image, the lighting is very diffuse like you would have in an office environment. The second image has sharp shadows and the display text looks weaker... I think that pic was taken outdoors in direct sunlight. [edit]Heh, yeah... It says "Direct sunlight" in the caption. -_-[/edit]
The reason VFD works so poorly in direct sunlight is that the phosphor pixels are white, so the light emitted by active pixels gets lost in the reflected light under strong lighting conditions. As suggested above and as is the case in many applications, a dark lens should help block that light. These OLED modules appear to have such a filtering lens built into the module.