Sony XEL-1 OLED TV unboxed

Sony's XEL-1 OLED TV -- with its 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and a ridiculous 3mm thin enclosure -- has been unboxed over at TV Snob. Next to all of its accessories, the XEL-1 looks rather less appealing when compared to the clean press shots. In particular, we're left a little confused as to what the deal is with that ugly external power brick: isn't that what the big box underneath the screen was for?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 1st 2007 6:34PM]

You have to allow for light that spills into the "off", "black" pixels from neighbouring pixels that aren't off, and maybe also from ambient light (reflections?). I'm not sure to what extent they allow for these in their measurement methodology when they come up with those "1:million" numbers, but in practice these are the affects that will determine how good it looks.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 1st 2007 8:46PM]

@ Spam >>

since OLED is considered emmissive rather than transmissive, techically no light should leak from one pixel to a neighbouring pixel in an OLED display.

We have noted some uniformity issues in a current large format LED model recently released by one of our competitors, however from our findings this is due primarily to the controller versus any sort of actual pixel-to-pixel transmission.

[Wwhat Posted Dec 1st 2007 11:58PM]

I think we know from normal LED that it doesn't make such sudden jumps from off to low-on, and to max brightness.
And if you are so close to technology how come you have never seen a iRiver click or some such device with an OLED display? get out to some store and go check for us :)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 2nd 2007 3:26PM]

WUT is the point of this crap its so big on the base a old CRT monitor is thinner cause the base is so huge. Good job sony u mess up everything

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 1st 2007 6:16PM]

Yes, of course, how could I forget, Contrast ratio is everything in a display....

keep thinking like that, I guess one million to one must be better then, right?

When u get a white title on a black background, it will be soo birght that it will be like looking at the sun in the middle of an empty void space. (the birghtside monitor that we where shown did almost blind you, anhd the image bloomed because of the CR ratio)

There are other things besides the CR.

check out this...

http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/DisplayModel?m=10007&p=8&sp=20073&id=89766&navid=master_series_video_monitors

now THATS a tv ;-)

take care

Frank

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 1st 2007 10:37PM]

On the original source site for these photos they now have some internal shots
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20071129/143276/

[Wwhat Posted Dec 2nd 2007 12:02AM]

Interesting, seems to drive all those dots requires some complex chips, and not just one, I guess they still have to design a chip to run it all to make the base smaller.

[Denver80203 Posted Dec 2nd 2007 12:49AM]

does it bend? no not blend, BEND... looks weak

[victorstuber Posted Dec 2nd 2007 1:00AM]

ok, can someone answer me this? what is the point of a thin screen, when the base makes it the same, if not thicker tv. yeah, the screen is nice and thin, but if you cant mount it on a wall to show off its thickness, whats the point

[Camperton Posted Dec 2nd 2007 4:19AM]

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[irfan Posted Dec 3rd 2007 12:30AM]

whats the luminance difference between fully off and minimally on? is there a big drop off between the blackest gray it can display and full black? or is there a perfectly smooth gradient from full-off through all the grays without a big jump between off and on?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 6th 2007 12:00PM]

SONY never look at dizain they do techologies, ecologies materials...