Samsung doubts Sony's ability to deliver world's first OLED TV

You know that 1,000,000:1 contrast kickin' 11-inch OLED TV Sony says they'll be selling before the year is out? Yeah, the world's first. Well S.Korea's consumer electronics giant Samsung, just threw down the gauntlet on Japan's CE giant by publicly doubting Sony's ability to deliver before 2008. Yoo Eui-jin, Samsung VP and head of Samsung SDI's OLED team, said "I hope Sony will really do it, but considering circumstances, I doubt they will be able to start selling it this year. Maybe it would be possible for them to make a hundred or a thousand units as artifacts, but no more than that." Bitter at the prospects of losing a "world's first _____" title are we Samsung? Oh man, game on.

[Via Afterdawn]

[GJP303 @ May 24th 2007 6:49AM]

Just like Samsung, I feel like I really want it to happen, but i doubt it does anytime soon.

[Mark @ May 24th 2007 8:07AM]

The fact that it just isn't going to happen has never stopped Samsung from announcing one of their products.

[Tyk @ May 24th 2007 8:19AM]

That 11 inch screen would shoehorn PERFECTLY into their next T series unltraportable... OLED + SSD = uber lappy.

[ArtVandelay @ May 24th 2007 8:21AM]

What Samsung fails to realize is they could make a hundred or a thousand units and make the 2007 deadline. They could sell them online at Sonystyle.com until they are sold out and back up their claim.

I am assuming these things will prohibitably expensive, so at that crazy price point they may not sell 100 to 1,000 units anyway.

[daaper @ May 24th 2007 9:23AM]

What in Sony's long history makes Samsung believe that they won't hit their deadline? That's just ridiculous...

[Dixonij @ May 24th 2007 10:49AM]

Um.... PS3?

(Yeah I know, TV and the PS are different departments of Sony but still...)

[Rainier @ May 24th 2007 10:31AM]

While looking at this photo, I feel like someone just hit the jackpot in a slotmachine.

[Frank L. @ May 26th 2007 10:58PM]

im with you on that one (Vegas baby!)

i really hope OLEDs start rolling out.. 1 mill:1 contrast ration is just incredible. would be well worth the money, but 11" is just too small

[Phatman @ May 24th 2007 11:24AM]

"I am assuming these things will prohibitably expensive, so at that crazy price point they may not sell 100 to 1,000 units anyway."

One of the benefits of OLED technology is that is should be cheaper to manufacture than an LCD because you don't have to add a backlight.

[KC @ May 24th 2007 3:44PM]

Cheaper to manufacture rarely translates to cheaper for the consumer. Even in commodity products - that don't have millions in R&D to recover - lower manufacturing costs usually end up as greater profits which ends up as greater returns for the shareholders. Not lower price and more money in the consumers pocket.

Competition between companies brings price down allot more then one company streamlining assembly or developing a new tech with either lower cost parts or requiring fewer parts then the existing product.

It will Take Samsung and LG.Phillips to get products one the market for the price war to start.

I definitely tend to agree that if Sony manages to get 100-1000 units produced, boxed and up for sale they definitely met their goal because I can't see them selling many 11" OLEDs that are likley to cost more then a 46" LCD initially. If they produce 1000 and sell 100 by the end of the year they'll be way ahead of the game.

[sLm4ever @ May 24th 2007 3:01PM]

so what about the life time ... !?

[DerekPowell @ May 25th 2007 5:45PM]

why does the world's first oled tv also have to be the ugliest?

[JeanCerwonka @ Jun 5th 2009 10:48PM]

Do you think any of these samsung products will go into production by2011/

[JeanCerwonka @ Jun 11th 2009 5:38PM]

I'd like to see these products become reality. Will they?