Why haven't filament LED bulbs taken over the market?

[hayatepilot]

@tooki

Those in the links... 

[mrflibble]

Time flies.

Scarily so, and accelerating!

Indeed, time for a different universe!

[tooki]

@tooki

Those in the links... 

Oops sorry, I meant which retailers.

[hayatepilot]

@tooki

Those in the links... 

Oops sorry, I meant which retailers.

Oh
Hornbach, Conrad, Lumimart, digitec/Galaxus, Brack, Siroop etc...

[Cathreenh]

Do the company bulbs shows higher quality than similar non-branded ones

[dnwheeler]

This is a fairly old topic, but recently (end of July), the University of California Santa Barbara started suing major retailers for patent violation on their filament style bulbs: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/31/business/light-bulb-lawsuit-amazon/index.html

[Nusa]

This is a fairly old topic, but recently (end of July), the University of California Santa Barbara started suing major retailers for patent violation on their filament style bulbs: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/31/business/light-bulb-lawsuit-amazon/index.html

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/uc-santa-barbara-sues-walmart-amazon-and-others-over-led-lightbulbs/

[tooki]

In all fairness, in the almost two years since this thread was started, filament LED bulbs have become extremely common. You can find them at IKEA, wal-mart, and any grocery store, sold by big name lighting vendors like Philips and Osram. The only reason anyone would be unfamiliar with them is if they haven’t had to buy a light bulb in the past year (which, admittedly, is a lot of people, especially if they already bought LED bulbs a few years ago, and thus have no need for replacements yet.)

[james_s]

It's been years since I've actually needed to buy a lightbulb, although I buy them occasionally to play with when I see an interesting new type on the shelves. At this point I've replaced several bulbs not because they failed but because they were technologically obsolete and a new one offered better efficiency or other desired characteristics.