Samsung drops jaws with 40-inch 1080p OLED display
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 30th 2008 10:21AM
posted Oct 30th 2008 10:21AM
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yowza!
now this is what i'm talkin' about! full beautiful 1920x1080... no more 1366 x 768 nonsense, please.
there are shit-loads of 40" 1080p LCD screens for reasonable prices now, this OLED should be srsly yowza for contrast and brightness after a bit more dev tho!
Nice .. Now lets get to 60" + .. 40" is a bedroom tv ...
Dude how big is you bedroom?? I'll admit my living room is small, but my 40" Samsung is perfect... I was thinking a 32" might even be too big for the bedroom!
40" is fine for the living room in the new place I'm moving to, but at our previous house, our 42" still seemed a bit small for the living room.
We bought a 40" Sammy this month (40A656 to be precise) and it's huge. How anyone can want or even house something bigger than 40" is quite beyond me. It's not like our apartment is small but anything bigger and it just dominates the place.
Wow .. i wasn't being snooty .. i am just used to my 60" .. something to get drawn into , you know a Home theatre, with HD you need to be closer then normal Tv to get all the rich details anyway ... Plus I don't like seeing my wall behind my tv , it distracts me
if 40" does that for you more power to you
I'd rather buy full-electric hybrid vehicle rather than 60" OLED Full-HD TV... I think the price will be similar...
@Shinigami
What is a full-electric hybrid?
Don't feel bad Jon
I have a 56" DLP in my living room and a 37" LCD in the bedroom :-p so I completely agree.
Then again i am really big into home theater so thats where most of my money goes.
Recommended screen size for HD is much larger versus SD at the same viewing distance due to the higher resolution. I have what I think is sorta a 'normal size' living room (maybe 12'x12'). Viewing distance is probably somewhere between 8 and 10 feet, and my 46" Samsung .. well it doesn't look too small, but a 60 sure wouldn't be too big.. I definitely think from 8 feet a 40" would be too small.
My previous dwelling had a huge living room with 18 foot ceilings, and it really made even enormous tvs look small. My new place has an average living room size and a 42" is perfect for it. It all depends on the size and layout of the room.
I knew I should have waited before I bought an LCD in February 2007... prices have come down sooo much since that it hurts me to walk into the home theater section of an electronic store. But, at the time, it seemed like it had to be done since my house got robbed and insurance had a time limit for how long they would reimburse us for the theft...
In any case, I ended up buying a 37'' Toshiba LCD for close to $1900 with tax and everything, and its not even 1080p, its 1080i/720p. Not that it would be very noticeable on that size of a screen... but now I'm seeing 40'' LCDs that are 1080p for like $899... Oh well, maybe I'll buy a new one next year and move that one to the bedroom.
What really puts salt in the wounds is going to my girlfriend's parents' house... they have a projector installed on their high ass ceiling that projects wide angle 1080p signal on a MASSIVE wall. I would say the image is probably 8 feet diagonal. I've always wondered how much he spent on that projector since it must have a REALLY high contrast ratio. They have huge bay windows on the other side of that room and you can still see the picture with zero glare.
8.5mm thick?.. You mean 8.5mm "thin"... Sweet as..
I think I just moved a little.
I have heartburn.
BRAVO!!!
Looks like Plasma just became LCD, and LCD just became RPTV, and RPTV just became CRT.
OLED is now the shizzz-nit.
If you meant "LCD just became plasma," then you're spot on. Just look at the sales figures.
Craig...you're right, from a sales standpoint. I was talking picture quality.
Wow! That is friggin' awesome.
Thats huge. Wasnt it just yesterday that the "Worlds Largest" was posted? Maybe a different type of oled i guess...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/29/cmel-shows-off-1mm-thick-25-inch-hd-oled-panel/
The saying is, "Anyone who thought... has another *think* coming." It's pseudo-incorrect grammar for the purpose of sarcasm.
I hate samsung because they are sometimes exaggerate their specs. On the LNXXA650, they did a test of dynamic contrast ratio independently and got ~11k at most. Samsung claims it's 25k, flat out off, not just a little off, very off.
Will it really matter if your contrast will actually be 300.000:1 instead of 1.000.000:1? I bet you won't notice the difference...
The 81 series lcd from samsung (it uses local dimming led's instead of ccfl back lighting) has by far the best contrast of any lcd to date. When ANSI contrast was measured, the LN-T5281F did very well for an lcd, but it was a far cry from 500,000:1.
Here is the measurement excerpt from Home Theater Magazine:
"The ANSI contrast ratio measurements produced a more realistic result. Using a 16 square checkerboard pattern of alternating white and black squares, I measured an impressive ANSI contrast ratio of 2,340:1 (38.84fl white, 0.0166fL black)."
Regardless of exaggerated CR measurements, the OLED stuff at EXPO looked phenomenal. I hope this lives up to the hype.
im guessing it will take about a fortnight for the US to receive this
Expect them to charge the amount of the contrast ratio if you would want to pick one up today.
1,000,000:1 isn't a currency yet.
Sure it is... $1,000,000 to one 40" OLED display. Prices are always in ratios, but for most things, it's per one item.
I liked the derogatory/hipocoristic term sammy, EG did you have to stop using it?
peer pressure is a bitch no?
What?
Loving Samsung!
For me Samsung are almost the new Sony. Their stuff really Rocks!
200cd/m2 seems extremely low compared to other technology out there.
At least you won't go blind with it the moment you turn it on :)
especially after it's reached it's half-life
I keed, I keed...
no, it's 1M:1.
Was that directed at me? If so, 1M:1 is contrast (undoubtedly overrated, especially coming from Samsung). 200cd/m2 is brightness, which is quite low.
gizmodo: "Way back in 2005, Samsung technically showed off a 40-inch OLED screen. We didn't want to be rude and say anything at the time, but it wasn't sporting HD resolution and the contrast ratio was a measly 5,000:1. Now Samsung is showing off their new 40-inch OLED (that's a mere 8.9mm thick), and needless to say, its specs are more than a little worth our attention"
that's completely different...
wait, i'm an idiot... x-\
A tear just fell out of my face... oh lord that thing's beautiful.
The best stuff always comes out when i'm broke. Maybe I can do egg donation and get my $20k then be able to afford that.
I'd hope samsung divert their r&d funding into putting decent quality audio into their sets. How does anyone put up with those wet fart speakers?
Why?
Just get a home theater.
A home theater display should go with home theater speakers.... The built-in speakers are _not supposed to_ be of high quality.... They're there just so you can test the thing out to see if everything works well before doing a more permanent installation, not really meant to be used
While this is far too small to watch movies on if it had a higher than 2560x1600 resolution it would probably make an excellent computer display.
Yeah I'll be playing Starcraft 2 Protoss campaign on this baby.
Cause thats how long it'll take for one of these to be affordable...
Mine
Who cares? Companies have been showing off 40" OLED prototypes for years. Let me know when they're actually on the market and I might care.
Designed obsolescence really works on you guys....really is it that important? if it is that important I think you need to take a look at your priorities, but that's just my opinion, and I canceled my TV service, because I discovered the illuminate was trying and succeeding in controlling people's minds with it so I didn't want to be a part of that any more.
is that to say that the battle between LCD and Plasma are soon at an end?
What is the point of this tech? Most 2009 plasma displays will produce very true blacks, so that is one advantage OLED loses. If anything, OLED should replace LCD, because there are far more design flaws in that tech than Plasma.
I loving Samsung LCD TV. Because Samsung are almost the new Sony. Their stuff really Rocks.
http://www.buycheapnow.co.uk/Cheap-560864-B0018PKEIY-Sony_KDL_32V4000_32_Widescreen_HD_Ready_Bravia_LCD_TV_With_Freeview.html