Eyes on with LG's near-production 15-inch OLED TV: come on summer
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jan 7th 2009 8:37PM
posted Jan 7th 2009 8:37PM
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im so returning my new tv and just going to wait it out..... geeshus...
not for the 15inch... but oleds in general...
If you wait for the next best thing, guess what? You won't buy anything!
i waited for an oled pmp now i have the sony,s9,iriver!! no i cant choose!
LCDs have nothing new to offer, OLEDs are gorgeous.
if you rely on memorable wisdom tidbits, you waste money!
Very Stylish!
smexy
this one is like a dream that turned into reality! whoa!
That should have sounded more poetic than it did.
You'd put that thing in the kitchen?
i need one of these to take with me on the road. i travel to way to many hotels and never have a good tv to game on.
I'm speechless! I can't believe that it's as thin as a credit card... wow.
Sure that's thin but it can't be 0.8mm... more like 8mm or 0.8cm?
Sorry. I see 0.8mm is referring to the panel without the bezel.
An 22 inch OLED monitor, please my kingdom (or at least a part of it :P) for a 22 inch OLED monitor. NO TV, a monitor plz, a nice 22 inch monitor... I am waiting for something like this from 2000 when it was still in concept !!
No! 24" Monitor so it can support full HD...
And it has to be released before 2010. Chop-chop!
The quality of that image on the TV, on an angle, as a photograph, is freaking mindblowing.
Wow look at the picture quality!!!!
;)
This thing is utterly gorgeous. WANT.
That picture quality is superb from 170 degrees.
Yea but didnt they say the OLED's start dimming after about 1000 hours of use. i know they said 17000 to, but im talking about a thousand. if so i wouldnt be to happy if i bought this id be constantly paranoid my tv would fade out. (as im smackign the damn thing, there goes 3000 down the drain)
I always worry when people say 'the picture was stunning' and then mention contrast. Most TV sets on display are set to get your attention and are not set correctly for viewing. Setting black and white points and adjusting sharpness (way down) to their proper points makes you wonder what you ever saw in that really super bright edgy picture in the store.
yeah, one of the lesser known gotchas that comes with buying a TV for cheap is that sometimes your discount comes from that it was the floor model, and will revert itself to the ultra high settings until you switch the mode. Of course, that's hardly an issue where you would feel cheated, but it can throw you for a loop the first time it happens.
I looked at all the pictures in the gallery and seriously, the picture doesn't look one bit better than the monitor I'm viewing it on.
i see what you did there
I've been reading about OLED tvs for years. What will it take for large sizes? Is the technology there yet or do they need to develop something that supports applying this to large panel?
Samsung had their 40-inch OLED TV for YEARS. Ask them when its hitting the shelves. The answer would be "we wish it never happens". They're making loads of money on LCDs since nothing really new is being made but the plants and technologies already exist so its cheap to make them but the prices are kept at a relatively high level. So, in order to make similar amounts of money, OLED, that is far superior to any LCD made, simply needs to cost 100x times more. And they will "gradually decrease production costs and increase sizes". Thats "business, not greed".
Other than greed there were some problems with screen's durability - they lost brightness in about a year or so. Sony OLED screens, that is. The problem is said to be fixed with different researchers periodically stating they found a material that allows to double or multiply "blue OLED life period" so there should be no problem now with production of massive amounts of OLED screens, making them blow the TV market like LCD did. And lowering the price from 100k to 1k for 32 inches.
/IMO
Samsung recently said that they can make large OLED TVs but they will cost 10X LCDs of the same size. Basically they don't think there is a big enough market for OLEDs at that price and people who want 50" TVs will not want a 22". Samsung said they would focus on 1.5 - 3" OLED until 2010 when they will release their first TV.
Sony will be releasing a 25" or 27" OLED soon or at least that is Sony's claim.
While we are on the subject of OLED displays where is this nifty flexible OLED wristband from UDC that we keep hearing about?
15 inch?...yawn
15 inches at the cost of buying a small country.
Too bad we'll have to wait till companies think "the market is fed with super-expensive super-small screens, time to start selling 40-inchers at the price of LCD 40-inchers".
0.8mm?
Seriously?
Awesome picture quality, anyway.
OLED - Isn't that Organic ???
That means it can be bread... cross it with you pet or something....
may be you can have a walking barking or meoowing Tele...
heheheee....
;-)
it can be bread with pets?
you mean like a kebab from china?
credit card thin? thats pretty thin. whats next? paper thin?
WOW dat thing is thin n picture quality looks pretty gd.
Pretty damned good?! 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.
It's not all about the thinness. It's about low-power output, picture quality, response time (0.001 ms) and thinness.
I had to do a double take when I saw these. Its amazing how thin they are.
The 1st pics looks like 8 mm
But the last pics looks like it's different TV and there it seems indeed to be 0.8mm
The pictures are pretty bad, I don't understand anything.
thanks for helping me
hahah, it makes me laugh when people say look at the quality,
wtf?
you can see the quality? the quality you are seeing is the quality of your current display, i cant wait to see one of these in stores!
Lmfaoooo indeed.
I was trying to figure out how I can appreciate the high level of contrast on my standard lappy LCD...
Well even though we have displays with less resolution, it still is at least minimally possible that we can determine whether what we're looking at has relatively good picture or not.
I'm only 18 now and cannot even imagine what televisions will be like when i buy buy first house in a decade or so. We've gone a long way, technology is pretty amazing.
The size of the only available OLED at the moment (Sony's XEL-1 11") isnt enough for me to go out and buy one. $2,500? Seriously? I'd rather wait it out and just stick with a nice LCD that isn't too heavy. As for the base of these televisions, there should be some type of wireless input standard, instead of the way Sony did with their XEL-1. This LG tv looks GREAT, even on my 720p computer screen.
As for bendable screens, and tv's put into shirts, i dont think i'l ever see people rolling up their tv's like scrolls. Shirts maybe, but i'd rather see the oled's stacked up for a 3d holographic-ish image.
I guess they simply want everyone (who care about quality) to buy big full HD LCD screens, before they release big OLED screens...
And when that finally happen, will they gladly offer OLED so everyone (who care about quality) have to buy a new screen :-(
15", 1080p, thin, low power... not really a TV, this should be the most awesome laptop screen
The "production run sometime this summer" link in the article states this unit is 1,366 x 768, which is not 1080p.
If you want understand why new technology is introduced this way:
watch http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912
It'll explain to you why technology is control by the cost of the product.
Why do we still not have OLED screens on our PDAs/phones?
Call me when the 110 inch model is available