Your Daily Dose of OLED TV News and Reviews

Sony’s coming out with a 27″ OLED TV within a year:

Gizmodo

Sony’s Stringer Promises 27-inch OLED TV‘fairly Soon’ PC World -28 May 2008 Sony launched its first OLED TV, an 11-inch model, in late 2007. The set, which also has the distinction of being the first commercial OLED TV in the world, … Sony Says 27-inch OLED ComingI4U Sony: We’ll deliver 27-inch OLED within the yearElectricPig.tv all 15 news articles

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Another take on the thinness of monitor and TV screens:
04/21/2008: The LCD monitors and TV are getting thinner by the day. When plasma TV first came to the market, people were left wondering where did the big caboose behind the screen go? Sony now has introduced the Sony XEL 1 OLED TV . A 11 inch widescreen television which is wafer thin with 1/8th of an inch deep. The model uses new panel technology called OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) and hence is priced at $2,500.

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Just when you thought the XEL-1 was thin, check this new OLED TV;

Sony’s New Super-Thin OLED G4 TV, CA -17 hours ago We saw Sony’s OLED TV at CES, but they want to go even thinner. This new display is only 0.3mm thick, which is just bonkers-thin. …

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Very good news for Sony as they accelerate plans to ramp up production of larger size OLED TVV:

Wired: According to a Sony report straight from its Japan headquarters, its young OLED TV-display production unit will be funded with a $210-million (€130 million) investment in larger screens (over 16-inches at least) and will ramp-up by the end of 2008. This will put it in place for a full-line release of TVs in late 2009 or early 2010. Sony was the first manufactur

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It was just a matter of time before the OLED panel was used for a notebook.

ZDNet

Samsung: OLED laptop in ‘09? ZDNet -19 May 2008 If you have ever seen Sony’s XEL-1 11-inch OLED TV, then you know just how cool an OLED laptop could be. On the other hand, if you’ve seen the XEL-1’s price …

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Another OLED TV review of the XEL-1’s alleged longevity problems. It should not affect the average user.

Sony’s first OLED TV, the XEL-1, has gotten loads of favorable reviews and hype (from us too). It does put out a hell of a picture, one that made our Wilson proclaim: “you’re essentially staring into what could very well be the perfect TV.” But Gary over at HDGuru isn’t so swoony, and his more rigid (and far HD geekier) tests show some serious (though not fatal) flaws you should definitely know about, if you’re thinking about dropping $2,500 or are just an HD freak. Like, for instance, that i

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Samsung has just raised the bar in the OLED TV competition:

At CES this year, Sony showed off their 1st OLED (Organic LED) TV that will go on sale, except it was a puny 11″ screen. It was a sweet looking TV though at 3mm thick and with a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. But who wants 11″ of OLED when they can get 50″ of Plasma for the same price? Now Samsung just showed off an 82″ OLED with backlighting. We may even start seeing some more reasonably sized screens coming to stores soon as well. Essentially, it’s not a question of technology but of economic

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More good news for Sony. This may help all the bad press on the XEL-1 lifespan issue:

No one can deny OLED displays are superior in quality to LCD or Plasma screens. One problem which has been constraining the commercialization of large-size OLED TVs, however, is the high level of power consumption. On Monday however, Sony and Japanese chemical company Idemitsu announced they succeeded in increasing the internal quantum efficiency (IQE) in deep-blue fluorescent OLED devices to 28.5%. I know, right? Until today, 25% was believed to be the maximum level of luminous efficiency

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Great news for OLED TV competition as LG Display shows a15-inch XGA OLED TV at SID Display Week

LG Display one of the world’s leading TFT-LCD manufacturers, today announced its plans to showcase its latest next-generation displays at SID’s Display Week 2008 (May 18-23 in Los Angeles, Calif.) admin’s blog

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Sony responds to the organic OLED panel longevity claims:

Sony OLED TV longevity claim challenged Reg Hardware, UK -13 May 2008 By James Sherwood [More by this author] Sony has downplayed allegations that its state-of-the-art OLED TV, the XEL-1, has a fraction of the longevity the …

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