Over in the audioREVIEW forums user Woochifer has a great write up on what appears to be the actualization of the vapor ware of TV technology, OLED. Lots to learn here and speculation abounds.
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OLED has been touted for years as one of those magic bullet technologies that will eventually render all existing TV technologies obsolete. Because all current TV technologies have major inherent shortcomings of some kind, it leaves the market open to a new technology that overcomes these existing limitations.
The promise of OLED technology is that it can deliver TVs that are thinner, lighter, and more energy efficient than anything currently on the market, with superior picture quality and performance. And because the screens are less complex than LCDs, OLED panels can eventually be manufactured at a lower cost. Nice concept, but it remains something off in the future.
Up to this point, OLED has been the HDTV equivalent of vaporware — the only model currently on the market is an 11″ portable model by Sony that sells for $2,500. Last year’s CES had some larger demo models between 20″ and 27″ from Samsung and Sony, which raised speculation that production models were just around the corner. Fast forward to this year, the CES OLED demos presented some larger demo models, but no word on when production models would come out.
source: Woochifer
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