Sony plans OLED TV launch

Sony plans OLED TV launch

Slimy on 12 April 2007 - 18:36 · 20 comments & 6325 views

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Sony Corporation has announced its hopes to steal a lead on its rivals this year by launching televisions that use organic LED displays. OLED screens have several advantages over the LCDs and plasma display panels: the OLED pixels use an organic material that emits its own light, so no backlight is needed. That means the screens consume less power and can be thinner. OLEDs also handle fast-moving images better and offer good color reproduction. Sony plans to launch an OLED TV with an 11-inch screen in Japan this year – no other details of the product's launch had been decided but at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January the 11-inch prototype was 11 millimeters thick and offered a resolution of 1,024 by 600 pixels. Sony also showed off a 27-inch prototype OLED panels. Sony wouldn't comment on pricing plans for its OLED TVs.

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(1 reply) #1 MR.T on 12 Apr 2007 - 19:23

I have been hearing about these OLED displays for awhile and now there finally going to release some. I wonder how much they will be?

#1.1 BGM on 12 Apr 2007 - 19:46

lots and lots, just like LCD used to be :o

#2 hagjohn on 12 Apr 2007 - 19:46

Sweet.

(5 replies) #3 spacer on 12 Apr 2007 - 20:07

What's "organic" about them? What is the pixel filling made of?

#3.1 Sartoris on 12 Apr 2007 - 20:20

Soylent Green

#3.2 fergiej on 12 Apr 2007 - 20:31

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Soylent Green

"It's made of PEOPLE!!!"

Let's see how many get this reference...

#3.3 Glassed Silver on 13 Apr 2007 - 01:00

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Quote - (Sartoris said @ #3.1)

Soylent Green

"It's made of PEOPLE!!!"

Let's see how many get this reference...

1 here

Glassed Silver:mac

#3.4 +Octol on 13 Apr 2007 - 01:26

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What's "organic" about them?

They're FDA certified to have been grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers! Once you're done watching them, you can fry 'em and serve 'em on toast with hollandaise sauce!

#3.5 yakumo on 13 Apr 2007 - 02:00

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Quote - (Sartoris said @ #3.1)

Soylent Green

"It's made of PEOPLE!!!"

Let's see how many get this reference...

It's not like you need the line about people for it to be gettable!

#4 Jugalator on 12 Apr 2007 - 20:37

11 inch OLED!! Woot, I'm all over it! Better book my ticket to Japan right away!

Seriously, sounds great if this could become the future of flat displays... We're still in the early days of flat panels... Maybe in just a few years, we'll look at today's LCD screen color reproduction and plasma sharpness with disgust.

But that's also the charm of technology..

(1 reply) #5 Samboini on 12 Apr 2007 - 21:24

This is going to cost some serious money.

#5.1 ANova on 12 Apr 2007 - 22:14

Actually OLED will cost alot less to produce than LCDs or any other type of display for that matter, however with everything new it will probably cost a decent amount at first, mostly to cover expenditures in the R&D it took to create them.

(1 reply) #6 +warwagon on 12 Apr 2007 - 22:48

I heard OLED's tend to go dim after a short period of time.

#6.1 VazaGothic on 13 Apr 2007 - 01:10

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I heard OLED's tend to go dim after a short period of time.

That's why Sony will be selling the organic fertilizer as well - you'll just have to pour it into your panel using specially designed tube in the back ... :-)

(2 replies) #7 +sLm4ever on 13 Apr 2007 - 01:23

very nice !! ... when will we have 25"+ OLEDs ? ...
that will be very sexy with the ps3 ...

#7.1 yakumo on 13 Apr 2007 - 02:03

mm,I thought the only possible reason for buying a PS3 was a cheep blu-ray media pc running linux.

Then I was informed running 3rd party OS locks out the gfx system so no hardware accelerated frame buffer. Gag.

way off topic though.. soz

#7.2 Digix on 13 Apr 2007 - 02:44

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nah, i bought mine for good looking and larger games and as a media hub and blu-ray player.

#8 excalpius on 13 Apr 2007 - 13:43

"good color reproduction"? OLED's possess the highest color and contrast space characterstics available...by orders of magnitude. So far, this looks to be the killer technology for the entire display sector. It can't come soon enough for me.

(1 reply) #9 brianshapiro on 13 Apr 2007 - 23:19

great and when the screens burn out due to natural OLED degradation will sony replace them for people

#9.1 ccuk on 14 Apr 2007 - 16:11

So true... I await SED...

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