Samsung slaps "production-ready" label on 14.1- and 31-inch OLED TVs
By Darren Murph 
posted June 1st 2009 10:56AM
posted June 1st 2009 10:56AM
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depends on if you are turning them on cold, by which I mean, from a power bar that was shut off to prevent it from being in a standby/low power mode... and how old it is of course
Yeah, is there something different with their LED LCDs? I've never seen one in the process of being turned on, but we have a fairly new Samsung LCD (non-LED) in the bedroom and it comes on in just a few seconds.
A friend has a last year's model at home. He told me about this. So I tried one of the brand news very thin (1") models at Fry's, it indeed takes a very long time to turn on. You press the power button to turn it on and it starts blinking a red light below the screen, it does this until it finally turns on 20+ seconds later.
Looks like it's time to sell the house...
wait.
I don't own a house.
Guess I can't have one : (
You still have an arm and a leg, no?
Call me a weirdo, but I'll take a 40 incher :)
http://www.oled-display.net/images/samsung/samsung-mobile-display-oled-tv-models.jpg
God I wish that people would stop using CR as a measure of picture quality. It's the equivalent of using MPG as a measure of a cars 0-60 performance. They are not related in anyway.
Marketing people, it's all marketing. It's a way for manufacturese to impress you without having to talk about things like color gamut or gray scale performance, which by the way are MORE important that CR. Educate yourselves.
http://www.practical-home-theater-guide.com/contrast-ratio.html
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Real ANSI contrast ratios has the biggest effect on image quality today where it is very weak on LCDs (grey blacks).
OLED is like the best of LCDs: (perfect geometry, sharpness, thin panels), plus the best of a top quality CRT: (infinite black, superior viewing angles, ultra fast response time).
It is the holy grail of display technology.
I don't have any numbers or anything, but I'm not sure everything that guy is saying is correct. In particular, in the section titled "Presence of light". He claims even a single candle (1 lux) in a room can render the difference between a 500:1 and 10,000:1 contrast ratio academic. And then claims a dimly lit room with 30 lux lighting renders anything above 50:1 academic. Sorry, but that's just BS. Go to any Best Buy and look at some good plasmas or new LED LCDs. Their blacks are noticably better than other displays even in their fairly brightly lit show floor. I do agree that other factors beyond contrast ratio are important for PQ though.
I'm all about the black levels. I'm actually looking at the LED LCD's they have right now.
I like the Little sign at the bottom of the picture that implies, cameras are prohibited!
Oh my!
Do my eyes deceive me, or does that say 1073M colors.
10 bit per channel ... DO WANT!
Er... In response to gadgeteer.
This really is good news. One step closer to reality and one step of many to come before its affordable, to me at least
Urm i thought OLED had infinite contrast ratio due to perfect blacks...?
glare of the screen...
OLED will obsolete contrast ratios. The real numbers is INFINITE. Blacks will true black, fully off. 1000 000:1 ANSI is used for convenience and to try to tell you how much better it is than a typical 1500:1 ANSI contrast of LCD. (ignoring the BS dynamic contrast nonsense).
I can't wait. OLED is definitely going to be the display we have all been waiting for.
Yes expensive at first but eventually it should be dirt cheap, use modified Ink Jet to print the OLED cells.
OLED is the future. Just wish the future was now.
This is no more true than it is for plasma. Neither reaches anything like 1,000,000:1, because the black background is slightly reflective. They can create BS figures by turning off all pixels and lights in the room, but in the real world where there is light falling on the display and light being emitted by nearby pixels that aren't off, the ratio is nothing like 1,000,000:1.
This isn't like plasma which can't produce this kind of high [b]ANSI[/b] contrast ratio. You can't have light produced by some cells and cells near them producing none. When the screen is on, there is a minimum light coming from the "black areas".
With OLED you can. Now certainly you can turn on lights and destroy contrast that is a fact of life.
But OLED is capable of producing as much contrast as your conditions will allow.
It is being an extremely anal nitpicker to argue about light from the screen going out in the room and bouncing back to hit the dark portions of the screen affecting contrast.
If you watch an OLED in the dark you won't be able to tell where the screen ends in dark scenes.
Unlike current LCDs which are horrid in the dark presenting a great big glowy gray rectangle where it should be black.
hehehe, my first thought was "Who the hell would want a 14 inch TV?!?!"
then i remembered my TV was a 14-incher :(
*cries*
So.. largish OLEDs begin to appear .. how long before they make it onto netbooks, laptops?
.. perhaps sony will feature it in a future version of the VIAO P ?
I cant wait till these tv's get into mass production and go down into the 3-4k price range...
With Samsung calling their current LCD TV's "LED" because of their backlight, what would they call a screen without a separate backlight? I guess it would be a non-existant TV, just like their production of this "production ready" set is non-existant! Heck, how are we to know they didn't stick a low-res monochrome OLED panel behind (or even along the borders of) an LCD screen and call it OLED TV? Come on Samsung, give us a release date, not "production ready" vaporware!