OK I just saw the unveiling Sony OLED TV, it makes my HDTV looks like an obsolete pos

[Mr3dfx]

Sorry to troll but look at laser tv...even better than OLED, they can produce 90%+ of what the human eye can see, and according to recent reports a 60+inch could possibly cost >$2000. Laser is good for stationary pics, but OLED is literally flexible which has many awesome aplications. The next few years are going to be sweet!

[SpikesBluBlooded]

Pretty much the only people buying this TV right now are the ones that will have it on their desk, or mounted in the throne room so they don't miss a play during (American) football season...

[ezcobar411]

I'll buy one as a gift for surviving law school and 3 yrs at a firm

[Kayne314]

I have discovered I have really good taste in electronics. I always want the very best. My wallet disagrees with my tastes though, and my bank account has the final say.

I would kill to have an OLED TV in the 50 to 60" size. I have a feeling though, they wont be available for several years, and when they do appear, I probably won't be able to afford it.

I guess I'll have to keep my plasma for a few years more.

[MRay]

"Are you talking about that little a$$ 11 inch for $2500? Yeah...I saw it at the Sony Style store in Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta, and it did make my TV look like sh!t."

Wow, an 11" screen, I'm just dying to rush out & spend $2,500 for 11".


"I'm watching Lawrence of Arabia..." Looks closer. "Hey, those little dots are camels."

Jon Stewart from the 2008 Academy Awards.

[MaleManGuy]

Originally Posted by Kayne314

I have discovered I have really good taste in electronics. I always want the very best. My wallet disagrees with my tastes though, and my bank account has the final say.

I would kill to have an OLED TV in the 50 to 60" size. I have a feeling though, they wont be available for several years, and when they do appear, I probably won't be able to afford it.

I guess I'll have to keep my plasma for a few years more.

No one knows if these TV's will have long term problems. The organic blue compound currently has a life span of 5000 hours. Not very long... especially at $2500 for 11 inches. So maybe we will find out sooner than later if these things will suffer burn-in, dead pixels, dead colors... who knows. Cross your fingers and wait another 6 years to see if this technology is at a point where you'd prefer it over plasma.

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by Mr3dfx

Sorry to troll but look at laser tv...even better than OLED, they can produce 90%+ of what the human eye can see, and according to recent reports a 60+inch could possibly cost >$2000. Laser is good for stationary pics, but OLED is literally flexible which has many awesome aplications. The next few years are going to be sweet!

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i always have this vision of me getting a LaserTV and it breaking and all these lasers shooting over my living room.

[bajor27]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

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i always have this vision of me getting a LaserTV and it breaking and all these lasers shooting over my living room.

Just be sure to play the Wii on a different TV and you should be fine :P



I guess it would be a problem, but I don't know. I've never broken a TV yet.

[AbsentAbe]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

I saw a History Channel show (probably Modern Marvels) about television, and the future of it...... obviously they're stretching in a few areas..... but they were saying there was a flexible screen technology already available..... they were TWISTING the screen while it played.... very cool. Also they said walls could be PAINTED with a substance that would transmit signals, and you could use television technology to change the colors of your walls with the press of a button....... I think that's a stretch, but my sister has LCD in her windows for automatic tinting, so who would have thought that was possible 20 years ago......

The flexible screen is the OLED technology. We may eventually be able to wear animated advertisements on our clothes!

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by Petra

It's 3mm panel with 1 million to 1 contrast ratio, with real live color

how can my wallet keep up with technology?

Yeah. "The Next TV" just opened yesterday at my local Sony Store.

WOW, that is an incredible picture. CAD$2500

It is going to be HUGE if they can ramp up size and bring down the prices. It's absolutely my next TV. .

I hope they can get it to double size, and full HD (it's 11" and 1/4HD) at half the price. For computer monitors and bedroom TVs $1250 it would be a good price point.

Gary

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by Mr3dfx

Sorry to troll but look at laser tv...even better than OLED

Was that necessary?

You can buy the XEL-1 today. Where is the laser TV?

Gary

[aheineken]

As soon as the technology of injet printing of polymer OLEDs improves, we'll start seeing OLEDs at reasonable prices. Until then, don't hold your breath.

[Beta Man]

I know these are "Old News" now..... But I inquired about possibly doing Rear-Projection with OLED (if it looks that great, why not right?) just like they do Rear-projection LCD..... I was told that it's so thin, it needs a solid black back-drop.... so I guess it's not possible for this technology.....

[DaViD Boulet]

Sorry to troll but look at laser tv...even better than OLED

Laser is for projection. Which means some sort of reflective or transmissive technology like LCOS, LCD, or DLP. Laser is just the light-source that replaces the bulb (and does improve image and might eliminate color wheels and color filters). But you still have dithering and other issues like screen-door.

Laser isn't the holy-grail of image reproduction, but it could be the holy-grain of image projection.