Sony’s First OLED TV Lands This Year April 13, 2007
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Japanese folk [who else?] will be the first to get Sony’s – and possibly – the world’s first OLED TV later this year.
Sony has revealed plans to launch an 11in model first onto the market and if they are anything like the prototypes I saw at the CES Show [above] in Las Vegas back in January, then TV design is about to get a real kick in the ass. Sony will be building a conservative 1,000 a month at a joint venture company, created with Toyota.
At around 5mm thin, the CES prototype had a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The 27in version [a whole 11mm thick] had a Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080.
As you probably already know, OLED displays – unlike LCD or plasma technology emit their own light so need no backlight, are brighter, have much higher contrast ratios, use less power, offer superior colour reproduction and handle fast-moving images better.
Of course, they’ll also cost you a kidney or two. And your first-born.-Martin Lynch
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Erm... I thought plasmas emitted their own light by the excitation of the plasma cells?
Yes, LCD's don't emit light which is why they need a backlight and have iffy black levels, but the whole selling point of plasmas were the fact that they emitted their own light giving better viewing angles and proper black levels at the expense of increased power and weight.
I was led to believe that OLED was an attempt at bridging the gap between LCD and plasma by combinging the best of both: the lightweight higher-resolution panels available to LCD and the light generation abilities available to plasma (with the black levels, viewing angles and response times that brings)
When will UK get a 52" of these TV!s And When will we see KDL 52XBR3 52XBR4 Thankyou