Whooo. (Not
Wooo.) Amazing how a few well framed PR shots can reignite gadget lust, just when it seems extinguished. Sure, LG's 15-inch OLED HDTV will probably follow the path of Sony's
$2,500 11-inch XEL-1 to the land of ridiculously overpriced trinkets that
few can or will purchase and eventually falls by the wayside when larger, cheaper options become available. Still, checking out that ultra bright screen in these photos has us checking our bank account for an extra few grand, refreshing the feeling last experienced when we
checked it out in person at CES. The appearance of these on LG's Flickr stream would appear to support the
summer mass production-December launch we've been promised, who else is wishing the 30-inch version wasn't
delayed until 2012?
posted Aug 29th 2009 11:21AM
4 inches a year is all we need.
That's NOT what she said.
Ryan Trevisol, you know what, you're SO funny.
Growing 4 inches a year is certainly amazing to me....
man..that size surely looks bigger than a 15" inch one.
That is what she said
there are a whole bunch of people out there who knows not what is funny.
It does look a lot bigger than it really is, but then again, it is a promo pix.
looking better than sonys design :D
thats what she said..... c-c-c-c-c-c-comboBREAKER
wait for it....
wow no penis jokes yet, suprising!
This isn't gizmodo.
oh wait theres one \/
can't wait for the 42 inch one :P
thats wat she said!
Rejoice, friend! 2029 is already knocking on the door!
hope it finds it's way into laptops soon!
Lol you beat me to it by seconds!
I want to mod this into my laptop. Can't even think about bringing it outside cause of the screen.
Like you use LCDs there...
Outside is overrated. The graphics aren't that much of an improvement over your PS3's.
If I remember correctly Apple gave LG 500 million not so long ago to develop screens for them. I bet Jonathan Ive and his fellow designers are already playing with this panels. Skinny Mac's are coming!
considering apple has started cost cutting lately i doubt the inclusion of expensive oled panels in their laptops would make much sense.
sure, it'd be perfect for their model of form over function, but not in terms of their new business approach.
The panel in my Acer laptop is Philips-LG. They make panels for a lot of companies.
richard the link overlaps to the t in the word to :-)
You mean Whoooa!!! It's supposed to have an a at the end.
Think of all the dust that will accumulate in between the screen and the stand.
And think of how easy it will be to tilt the screen forward and blow the dust out.
Stay positive :)
I don't mind the 2012 delay... That's how long it's gonna take me to save for one. And to Matt and Dany (Comments 1 and 2)
That's what she said?
n.
I really like the design of this one. It saves a lot more space than Sony's.
Massive sticker shock.
That's what she said.
(that was a stretch...)
your name doesn't support that statement.
If they made that into an all-in-one pc (the stand houses the computer) that would be so kickass! It would be a beautiful (expensive though) computer for like a kitchen. Just a suggestion. :)
Or a Mac.
SEND ME TO HELL!
i lol'd. Hard.
that IS what she said...
ROLF
HARRIS
I've never seen an OLED screen before. Is it worth the attention people are making it out to be?
yes
yes
That's what she said?
Imagine taking that to college.
Imagine getting that stolen or broken at college....
Name irony overload!
@ luke, interesting to know your floor laughs.
i was just reading up on oled technology. i just wanted to say, it's pretty cool stuff
cool story bro
Will these replace LCD, or will they co-exist ?
Just you wait till AMOLED - and after that we'll have plain glass windows that turn into TVs at the touch of a button!?
I'm still waiting for the day I can paint my tv screen on the wall.
Waiting for some samsung OLED's!
Delayed to 2012 you say? LG just got put on the list for end of the world scenarios. Anyways I have no idea what an OLED looks like and why it is better then other LED's. All I know is that I do like SED/FED.
"LED" screens are only LED-backlit and still rely on LCD to display colors.
OLED is quite different, it has no backlight and no LCD. Each pixel has 3 organic LEDs emitting a color directly. Black pixels are pure black.
Response times are ~0.1ms, contrast is practically infinite, power consumption is 2-3 times lower, thickness is in millimeters or less (flexible screens are possible), mass production is supposed to become "easier" than LCDs (using inkjet-like methods) allowing cheaper displays in the future.
SED/FED shouldn't be missed if OLED comes into mainstream.
Power consumption is higher than LCD. You can make rigged images that are lower power, but on average, count on it being the same or higher.
Black pixels are never pure black in real life because the panel reflects visible light.
Contrast on LCDs is already higher than the range of the human eye. Contrast on OLEDs measured black to white is very good. But dim colors don't work right, the white point shifts, the pixels can flicker.
On OLED bright pixels are dimmed automatically if the panel starts showing too bright of images, in order to keep power and heat down. Because of this OLEDs just aren't terribly bright except in rigged cases showing only patches of color on black.
Currently burn-in and pixel lifetime in general is an issue with OLED. It is quite possible this will no longer be an issue by the time the average person gets one.
Engadget:
The 'Still, checking out that ultra bright screen in these photos has us checking our bank account for an extra few grand' sentence is nonsensical.
You are viewing these photos on your current display. There is no way these photos can exhibit brightness, contrast or any other characteristics that your current display cannot reproduce when you are viewing them on your current display. In other words, if you like bright images like that, just adjust the controls on your current display and you can have images that look like that on it.
The Koreans need bigger sizes!!
Overpriced Late Expensive Display
If the 11 inch OLED is $2,500, then the 15 inch OLED is over $3,000. No thanks, I would rather spend $1,000 on a 40+ inch LCD HDTV.
The LG screen is a generation 4 OLED screen, Sony's 11" TV was a 3rd gen panel. OLED panel production gets cheaper with each generation as manufacturing methods mature. I'd sooner expect this LG TV to be $2,000 than $3,000.
Also, burn-in with OLEDs isn't as big an issue as people make it out to be. OLEDs are very common in portable devices and how many people have complained about burn-in there? I have heard more reports of burn-in with LCDs (yes, it's possible).
Since OLED is organic could it be affected by a virus or bacteria?
(no computer virus but a real-life virus, creepy things)
I only wait for the time that you can walk into a Best Buy and mull over a large selection of 40 inches from various manufacturers;)
Read somewhere that oleds have better picture quality, lighter, thinner, more energy efficient, can be rolled up if produced in that way.....