CES 2008: OLED TVs Get Bigger January 10, 2008

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Sony stole some limelight back in CES 2007 with it’s slinky 11in OLED TV, the XEL-1, which has since gone into production. It will go sale in the US soon for a wallet-crushing £1,250. That's £400 more than the Japanese price so we're really screwed.

At this week’s CES 2008 show, OLED TVs were back stealing some thunder although this time they’ve obviously been eating their vegetables as Sony showed off a 27in model and Samsung a 31in model. See the Sony model close-up in the Engadget video below.

The Sony model comes in at just 3mm thick, boasts an astounding contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1 and features 1080p support. Sweet as Hell but there’s no idea of when it will make it into production, but probably not before 2009.

Samsung managed to squeeze an extra 2in of display onto its OLED TV, a 31in skinny thing that is 40% lighter than an LCD HDTV and with a contrast of 1,000,000:1. It also features a colour gamut of 107% and brightness of 550nit. Samsung also previewed a 14in model. Again, no breath holding since the company has no plans to start rolling these babies out until 2010.

Plenty of time to save then.-Martin Lynch

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