RSSSamsung to show off lower-profile OLED at CES
By Tim Conneally | Published December 27, 2007, 4:08 PM
Major consumer electronics producer Samsung is expected to show off a prototype 31-inch active matrix OLED, and to begin producing 14-inch displays in 2008.
Samsung's latest prototype active matrix screen will be a 31" 4.3 mm display, slightly larger and lower-profile than Sony's 27" 5 mm prototype that it showed off at last year's CES.
The company said this prototype consumes less than half the electricity of an LCD screen of approximately the same size.
Like Sony, Samsung's production model will be considerably smaller than the convention floor model. The company expects to begin production of a 14" OLED screen in 2008. Unfortunately, OLED displays are still quite expensive to make: Sony's 11" screen carries a price tag of $1,740, while Samsung's 14" screen is expected to cost over $3,000.
Because of this current high cost in production, Toshiba revealed that it was shelving its OLED TV plans until at least 2010, according to yesterday's Wall Street Journal. This while Sony phases out its projection TV line to focus on OLED.
While OLED screens remain too costly to be an effective solution for television viewing, their low power consumption make them ideal for use in portable computing, MP3 players and cellular handsets. A notebook equipped with solid state memory and an OLED display will have much lower power consumption than a backlit LCD, spinning drive model, thereby multiplying the potential battery life.
Let's put the HD DVD and Blu Ray Scandal to bed. The bottom line is $$$. Both Technologies seem to be on the bleeding edge and no one is willing to fully jump ship until Warner Brothers makes a definitive decision on which way it's banking it's future on. The reality of the problem is will Sony and Disney win the War??? We probably won't know until the later part of 08, until then buy the least expensive player and join Netflix!
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|I'll be driving to the store to get one of these the day they come out in 50" for under $2000. Of course, I'll be in my hovercar, listening to GnR's Chinese Democracy, and bringing this home to play Duke Nukem Forever on it.
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|Hooray for vaporware!
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|But DNF has a trailer now! :)
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|SED is the way to go, and once it arrives it will stay for quite some time. LCD is s***, Plasma is s***, OLED is s***(Although it is quite acceptable for portable devices). CRT's are still used but only by professionals, the rest is spat at consumers wanting the latest technology, sacrificing quality for portability. SED is a long awaited evolutionary step from CRT principles and trust me, even google it, it is the technology that will become standard.
I'd hate to see companies throw tons of money at OLED for the development in larger sized displays, it will be such a waste of resources.
Here is some toilet reading :p
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-sed-monitor.htm
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|The key being "once it arrives". I believe Nano Proprietary still has a lawsuit against Canon over the technology and their joint venture with Toshiba, which violated NP's licensing agreement. Does anyone even know if Canon finished buying Toshiba out (of SED, Inc.)? There were rumors back in January, but that was almost a year ago, not to mention SED technology was initially supposed to hit stores in June/July of this year, then early 2008 and now we haven't heard anything since January ...
It's not that the technology doesn't exist or isn't semi-affordable; it's that it's not being supported and probably never will be.
http://www.engadget.com/...stake-sed-production-in/
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|Guess again...
http://www.smarthouse.co...ge_Display/SED/D6P2C7U7
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|CES2008, the countdown to HD DVD obsolescence had begin...
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|Hey Joey, I don't know if you noticed that HD-DVD sales are kicking the crap out of BD at Amazon.
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|Dream on..
over 70% of HD sales go Blu-ray. It's been this way for over a year now..
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|Hehe another date? Dont you people get sick of making up dates for HD-DVD's death
Oh was it you who said Blu-ray had a large display in Bic in Shinjuku? I am in Nakano now. Sorry to say but the display was joint with HD-dvd and was able to fit on a single mobile phone picture. The BIG thing for blu-ray here is cam-corders. I almost purchased one but went for a HDD based one instead
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|Sorry, the numbers say otherwise but you tend to make it up as you go along. We all know you slend every waking moment lying like your profile at cnet.
http://www.cnet.com/5270...0-2.html?userID=1150478
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|Another product that pit and Joey can't afford that they will find something to b**** about.
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|do you guys just post comments to be funny?
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|"funny" you mean.
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|Perhaps in a decade these things will be out and affordable. Id be happy with better LCDs, such as LED backlights and so on but even that seems to be taking their sweet time.
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