LG 15-inch OLED TV on sale in December
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jun 17th 2009 6:07AM
posted Jun 17th 2009 6:07AM
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must....be.....bigger.........
You like big sizes don't you :o
No amount of steroids is going to help you there, cupcake.
No, I think this is the perfect size for a LAPTOP. why didn't they do LAPTOP screens instead boggles the mind. who has 15inch TVs in their house anymore?
15 inch TV's are great for places like the kitchen/dining room, which is good for the morning. (You could eat your breakfast and watch the morning news, for example.)
Also, kids bedrooms. You wouldn't spend this money on a kid's bedroom TV, though.
15" is uselessly small, even for a kitchen. Not everyone has a dining table that's directly beside a TV. I think 24" LCDs would make a good size, and 20" is acceptable as a TV. Then again, why would I spend that much money on such a display?
@Mehdi Chiddadi: In a laptop today? How much do you think such a laptop would cost?
I recently bought a 15-inch 720p HDTV for my bedroom. Perfect size and price for my nightstand (my nightstand is about 1.5x2ft.) People still do have uses for smaller TVs. 11-inch, not so much.
That is one sexy television!
30,000 hours is not so bad. That way you can still be using it when cheaper better models come out and your wallet cries looking at them.
Who needs a 50" Panasonic G10 plasma when you can get an overpriced 15" OLED?
Small high tech 720P TV's FTW!!
Bah! We don't want plasma! Even 50 inches! We want OLED!
Doesn't mean we'll buy overpriced super-small ones though. Just wait till you have grandkids (if you don't have any kids right now) and OLED TVs will be cheap and in all sizes and variations.
Bigger is always better.........
Looks like your Mac is out of date.
Good news, I haven't researched.. are there/will there be laptops with OLED screens like this?
...Yes we can....
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/samsungs-12-1-inch-oled-laptop-makes-us-swoon/
Is 768 Vertical resoultion enough for 15" screen though?
...Carrier exclusivity annoys me...
there are a few 15-17" laptops with 16:9, 1366x768.. so yes.
Not enough P's. Need at least 1080 P's
i's won't do the trick?
The 768 is actually horizontal.
Do all OLEDs have viewing angles this awesome?
OLED, Plasma. Yes, the better tv technologies have good viewing angles.
summer... december.... summer... december.
For some logical reason i cant establish a link... anyone help me out?
Let me read the article for you and translate to Engadget: Simple Edition -
"We knew that LG's 15-inch OLED TV was entering into production this summer, now we've got a ship date: December."
The above sentence implies (another word for suggests) that the TV went into production (they began to make it) in summer and now it's ready for shipment (selling) in December.
Alternatively, several countries in the world have their summer in December.
Production... Ship Date... Kinda like.... Conception... Delivery Date...
They cannot really be at the same time!
Oh boy. If an 11 inch OLED TV costs $2,500, I can only imagine what a 15 inch would cost!
$3,400.
So how long until we can get OLED screens in a sub-$2k Macbook Pro?
Are we talkin' like 1 year, or like 10 years?
5 years until they become standard. For the most part right now, there's only one major device that will be using OLED, and that's the Zune HD. A couple of Samsung phones are available but I doubt they'll be produced in the same quantity as the Zune HD.
There have been others, you know.
I was just going to say something about the size until I realized Sony's was even smaller.
OK, these OLEDs are really expensive right now. Just remember, in 1997, Fujitsu was selling the first big screen (42") Plasma TV, for an eye popping price tag of $15,000! Since then things have changed in price a little, what was 15,000 is now available at Costco for 800 bucks. We can probably expect OLEDs and e-ink to become cheap and widely available in the next 5 years as the initial cost of development is paid off and the per unit licensing costs drop to near zero.
15" inches.
honest.
There are other devices out now that are using full-color OLED screens, the big ones being the Cowon S9 PMP and the Samsung OmniaHD phone (not to mention the plethora of other phones Sammy is releasing with the screens, though I noticed not all of them are full 16.7M color... the Jet is though)...
I just don't understand why, at those sizes, they're bothering with TVs at all and don't just put them in laptops. Even if they bump the price insanely, I bet more ppl would pay for a premium laptop (they already do) than premium small tv.
LG sux
they don't test their products fully before releasing them or do updates when they're out in the wild.
Kim Jong Il will be the first to get one of these