Why no edge-to-edge displays?

[grebgonebad]

Hi!

Just wondering if anyone knows why there are no true edge-to-edge displays out yet, whether they be mobile or monitor?

As im sure most of you are aware, earlier this year Samsung announced and demonstrated their new ‘Youm’ flexible display technology, and as you can clearly see from both the many videos and pictures the display has such a minute bezel it is basically non-existent. Arguably, todays AMOLED displays are also edge-to-edge if you have ever disassembled a modern smartphone such as the Samsung Galaxy S3 (I disassembled the broken screen on mine after replacing it), so why can manufacturers of today simply not include the bezel?

I am sure that it is not as simple as ‘not adding a bezel’, and there is a perfectly rational explanation for it, I’m just wondering what it is exactly?

 

[huilun02]

A monitor has a large screen and needs to keep it flat and in form. Without a bezel there is a high risk of easily damaging the edge of the screen.

In a phone the frame is the screen's bezel...

 

[grebgonebad]

Well as far as damaging a screen as large as a monitor goes it could be argued that the rear of the screen could be fortified in some way? Plus, I doubt it would be unreasonable to think that with todays technology there wouldnt be way to manufacture a more ridgid form of screen surface to stop any deformation?

The same argument stands for mobile screens I would have thought?

Thanks for your reply!