Sony's XEL-1 OLED TV splayed in high-resolution

Seen enough of Sony's 3-millimeter thin OLED TV? Nah, we reckoned not -- and even if you've grown somewhat accustomed to that sleek 11-inch exterior, opening this pretty boy up gives you a whole new perspective. The camera-toting cats over at bunnie:studios managed to happen upon a live XEL-1 tear down while perusing the floor at the Embedded Systems Conference, and sure enough, they succeeded in capturing the momentous event and were kind enough to host up a smattering of high-resolution images to prove it. Anxious to see what Sony could possibly fit inside of this thing? You're just one click away from finding out.

[Thanks, Andrew]

[Andrew @ Apr 18th 2008 8:03AM]

UGLY lol

[ray @ Apr 18th 2008 8:51AM]

oh you mean your organs are beautiful?

[kev @ Apr 18th 2008 9:24AM]

This is a beautiful piece of PCB design. You should be thankful for the hours of work engineers put in every day, but I suppose just your "hard"-"earned" money will do.

*sigh*

[JLTate @ Apr 18th 2008 10:04AM]

Awesome. Altera roxxorz.

[Richard Lai @ May 25th 2008 11:02AM]

@JLTate: wow, I didn't notice that until you mentioned it. That FPGA is a gem.

[Ghost_Ship_ @ Apr 18th 2008 8:19AM]

Interesting....

[Doug @ Apr 18th 2008 8:31AM]

Now... To fit all that into a single 3 by 1 inch Cell phone....

[Shinigami @ Apr 18th 2008 8:32AM]

Take the read link and read their comments - there is no other use for this TV than tearing it down! And I agree with that xD

[FRZ @ Apr 18th 2008 8:36AM]

That looks like a huge memory card.

[Mike @ Apr 18th 2008 8:51AM]

YOU look like a huge memory card.






see? didn't that hurt? now apologize to the OLED or you get no cake after dinner. And in this house, the cake is not a lie.

[Brendan Sheehan @ Apr 18th 2008 9:15AM]

It's a shame about the big, chunky base. I'd gladly sacrifice some display thickness for a more modest, i.e. more elegant, spinning base-plate.

[rento @ Apr 19th 2008 7:57PM]

That's an Atari game seen at the microscope. Oléd!

[Wwhat @ Apr 19th 2008 8:31PM]

So it needs a cable with a line for every pixelline then eh, no wonder it's pricey and small screen, think of all the lines on the PCB too, and think of feeding a 32" amount of lines to the chip, and how many pins that chip would have then, ouch.
Perhaps they should try a bio-chip and grow a bit of brainmatter on a wafer to run them.