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Sony plans to sell ultra-thin OLED TVs this year
EETimes | Reuters ^
| 4/12/07
Posted on 04/12/2007 9:55:36 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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Sony is once again showing off their beautiful OLED TVs we first peeped at CES. No surprise there, after all, we love to gawk at that incredible 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio just as often as possible. The real news is that Sony is finally ready to move an OLED TV into production. Sorry, not that bad-azz 27-inch model capable of Full HD 1080p. Nope, instead they'll be pushing out the 11-inch pup sometime "within 2007." We're talking 1024 x 600 pixels slathered across that wee 1M:1 contrast panel capable of 8-bit RGB color and covering more than 100% of the NTSC color gamut. Oh, and the display itself measures just 3-mm thick. Hot-freakin'-tastic. Unfortunately, it will likely suffer from a high price tag and short display life. Still, you'll be tempted, especially after seeing the set's razor-thin display in a profile shot after the break -- yeah, dramatic viewing angles too. Oh, Sony, why must you taunt us.
-- engadget
To: LibWhacker
And all those people who recently dropped $10 grand on a 1080 high def are freaking out today.
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posted on
04/12/2007 9:58:09 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Republicans - the battered wives of Democrats.)
To: LibWhacker
We just got a Sony Brevia 1080 HD LCD and can’t imagine an even better picture. And like the early HD sets, the price of this new generation television will come down too.
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posted on
04/12/2007 9:58:10 AM PDT
by
Peach
(Not banned yet.)
To: LibWhacker
"Unfortunately, it will likely suffer from a high price tag and
short display life." How short is short?........
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posted on
04/12/2007 9:58:51 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
To: LibWhacker
I’ve been waiting for this tech to hit for years. Sure I’d like a 50 inch TV, but if it weighs over a hundred pounds, its too much trouble. With OLED a 50 inch display might weigh 10 pounds. This stuff is approaching sci-fi levels of coolness. Printable, wearable displays.
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:00:32 AM PDT
by
ozoneliar
("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants" -T.J.)
To: LibWhacker
"Organic Light Emitting Diode."You can catch E-coli from that organic stuff.
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:02:00 AM PDT
by
Drawsing
(The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
To: Peach
We just got a Sony Brevia 1080 HD LCD and cant imagine an even better picture.
Ditto us, last October...it's only 32" due to small room size, but a depth of 3 1/2 inches and a weight of maybe 15 pounds are good enough for me.
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:02:52 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
To: Red Badger
‘Ya got me. Given the price and short display life, I think I’m going to be quite happy with our Sony 1080 HD LCD — at least for a while.
To: Red Badger
How short is short?........ I've read about different advances in display life for OLED. I don't know what tech Sony is using. The truth is we won't know till this hits the market.
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:03:23 AM PDT
by
ozoneliar
("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants" -T.J.)
To: LibWhacker
I'm not sorry I dropped 2 grand on a Sony Bravia LCD TV. Its great.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:03:40 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: LasVegasMac
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:03:53 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
To: ErnBatavia
I can’t get over how narrow in the back they are. It’s changing furniture building and decorating already.
Watching Planet Earth in HD is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:03:57 AM PDT
by
Peach
(Not banned yet.)
To: Peach
I bought one for my husband for Christmas. We continue to compare ours with others we see in stores. They don’t come close. We couldn’t be happier with ours.
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:04:04 AM PDT
by
twigs
To: Peach
Oh yeah....I’m thrilled to even watch the reruns.
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:05:13 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
To: twigs
We keep comparing ours too :-)
I think Consumers Digest gave the Brevia the highest marks for picture. Now we’re just hoping Direct TV comes through with their promise of broadcasting 100 shows in HD by the end of the year.
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:05:28 AM PDT
by
Peach
(Not banned yet.)
To: ErnBatavia
We’ve saved all the episodes so far and when my brother comes here with his laptop computer I’m going to see if he can help me transfer the episodes from the DVR to a DVD. (I think I’m using the right initials?!)
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:06:54 AM PDT
by
Peach
(Not banned yet.)
To: Red Badger
IIRC they have had problems with one color in particular - blue. When I last read a story on OLED’s they were working on extending the lifetime of blue. When they started it was around 1,000 hours, but they’ve gotten it up to around 20,000 hours.
If you leave your display on 24/7, that’s a little over 2 years and 3 months worth of lifetime. For most people it will be around 10 years or so.
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:08:50 AM PDT
by
flashbunny
(<--- Free Anti-Rino graphics! See Rudy the Rino get exposed as a liberal with his own words!)
To: Peach
If they keep that promise, we may just switch. Comcast is dragging its feet.
To: Red Badger
How short is short?........It'll never beat my forty year old B&W. And if it ain't broke, I don't fix it :)
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:11:37 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: LibWhacker
OOh la la! I wonder how much?
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posted on
04/12/2007 10:13:45 AM PDT
by
eleni121
(+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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