30-inch OLED TV from Toshiba in 2009

Toshiba has announced plans to ship an organic electroluminescence (EL) display in 2009. The target size will be 30 inches, which beats most manufacturers' prototypes currently under development, like Sony's 27-inch OLED plans. Toshiba had previously planned 2015 as the launch window for OEL (more commonly known as OLED) sets, a launch timeframe which put them in that magical future land along with SED and FED displays. While Toshiba doesn't expect to compete directly against the behemoth of LCD at first, they believe the technology's superiority -- which includes lower manufacturing costs, and better viewing angles and contrast -- will be recognized as volume goes up. Your electroluminescent game of fl0w may never look better.

[TIMMAH! @ Apr 13th 2007 6:51PM]

Hopefully they'll have the blue channel life issue worked out by then. The technology certainly is capable of scaling very well to larger sets (you just print up a bigger display.)

[Z @ Apr 13th 2007 7:08PM]

I agree. Work out the blue issues, and give us a 60" or 70" screen and we're all good.

[cs @ Apr 14th 2007 1:16PM]

However, the largest OLED panel is dicated by the LTPS TFT backplane, which can only be manufactured uniformly up to 32" diagonal for the foreseeable future...

[FXi @ Apr 13th 2007 7:45PM]

The folks to bring us OLED 30" pc monitors are going to make a mint...

[Anonymous @ Apr 13th 2007 11:38PM]

I'm still using a CRT rear projection as my main TV. Why? Superior SD quality when compared with any other display type I have seen. Whenever they pimp these new displays, they always leave out any details of how lower definition (than native) content is going to look on the display, and for most LCD and Plasma's TV's, this means that the scaled up image is going to look like crap on the fixed pixels the TV employs. Give me a non-fixed pixel successor to the CRT, and I will get out my wallet. Until then, the only LCD I own sits squarely in my bedroom, and the CRT Rear Projection gets all that living room love.

[Roger Singh @ Apr 13th 2007 11:49PM]

Has anyone thought of doing an OLED TV in a form of a Projection screen? Is this possible? I'd be really interested in something like that. I don't have the patience to install a front projector. But install a screen I can roll down whenever I want, would be very amazing.

Of course, I'm talking about sizes of 80+ inches.

[FXi @ Apr 14th 2007 12:03PM]

OLED is really a direct view technology not a projection based one. Higher power light would be needed for projection, possibly the laser based projection technologies might be what you are thinking of.

If you want very good SD, I'd suggest the 50" SXRD sets. Sony does a bang up job of putting SD on a large screen very well. Of course, the alternative is to wait another year or two till the SD/HD conten ratio turns and goes 20/80. Currently it is the opposite and I agree, SD quality is very important and most ignore it.

[buckeye @ Apr 16th 2007 12:05AM]

2009? how about they first atleast release the SED that toshiba has been promising with canon..which was due in 2005 right?