http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/ Engadget Comments for Samsung's skinny 40-inch OLED panel http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/
OLED and SED do not have an easy path ahead of them. They have to compete with plasma which is decreasing in price every year. 30% price drops every year. OLED and SED are supposed to be cheaper to manufacture but that advantage gets slim when you consider plasma is already selling large volumes and has new huge factories coming online every year.

Plasma used to get killed over there 20k half life. Well, new plasma tech has 60k half life - plasma lifespan is no longer an issue. Plasma used to get killed over burn-in issues - new plasmas now have burn-in comparable to direct view CRTs.
The only real nitpick on plasmas now is resolution. They are not yet at 1080p (some LCDs are already there). Only 50" plasmas have true 720p. I assume in the next year or two the resolution disadvantge will be solved as well.

I believe the market of 37" and up screens will belong to plasma until at least 2010. Smaller screens are LCD. -- I'm only talking flat panels here.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/
Right now, 37" and up is owned by LCD projection and DLP sets, not plasma.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/I would think that by 07-08 most plasma monitors will be history.
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RR (#5), I think that is just wrong. Samsung is introducing a new line of plasmas as we speak.
If you do a quick google news search you will see that plasma manufacturing is expanding. I found info on both Samsung (the #2 plasma maker) and Matsushita (panasonic - the #1 maker) they are both increasing their yields to meet rising demand for plasmas. So, you say in '07 or '08 plasma is history? HAHAHHAA that is plain wrong. In those years plasma will continue to lead flat panel sales of 37" and above.

Ben (#6), I agree, I missed the point about plasmas sucking up a lot of power. To me and many this is a serious issue. The pessimist in me thinks the average consumer won't care that much about power consumption though.

I don't really care that much about plasma tech. My main point though is that it will be a long time before SED or OLED takes a significant portion of the market in flat panels.

And just one last time, I am only talking about flat panels - please don't tell me how DLP or projectors are a better way to go. Maybe they are but thats not what I'm talking about.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/
I think OLEDs have great potential, but will first find their way into smaller screen sizes before challenging the large scale plasma market.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/19/samsungs-skinny-40-inch-oled-panel/
However... Samsung isn't about to crash the LCD market, which they are still heavily invested in. For that reason, the likely case will be an OLED on the market that's price-competitive with other flat screen tech, but not amazingly so.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM