Want to blast some BRAVIA Internet Video Link content from your PS3 to your million-inch
Sony-built 3D OLED TV this year? Well, you're half in luck. Sony's bringing the Internet Video Link service to the PS3 (which seems to us to provide little that isn't already possible on the PS3, but who are we to judge?) but won't do any new OLED TVs
this year. The problem is, naturally, cost, but hopefully 2011 will bring better things in sizes larger than 11-inches -- LG won't have a
30-incher until 2012 at least, and that seems too long to wait. Sony COO Stan Glasgow, in his interview with
Sony Insider that turned up these nuggets, also is refreshingly non-bombastic about 3D. He points out that Sony's doing 3D-capable TVs for essentially zero price differentiation, with separate glasses and emitters that can be bought after the fact, and calls the 3D channel rollout "complex." But who knows, perhaps he's just never seen enough of Taylor Swift in 3D to know what he's missing?
posted January 15th 2010 1:01PM
Writes her own stuff. Play guitar. Sings well enough. Down-to-earth-girl-next-store looks. I like Taylor Swift.
@hahaFACE I'ma let you finish, but Slash is the best guitarist of all time.
@hahaFACE
Do you live in a commercially zoned area? Its girl next DOOR, not store.
@Warren Damn my phonetic brain. I think I typed it the way it sounds in my head. Maybe that is why I suck at Mad Gab.
@Warren
And it's "it's" not "its".
:-p
Not only is the problem cost the technology is far from perfect oled still renders colours in a very over saturated way. I own devices with oled screens and I really wonder how they thought that was ok!?! The big consumer tech co's know this and they are scurrying away on the labs to fix this. It may be cute on a small screen buy when watched on a big screen with natrual images it ain't gonna work??!!? Comments??
@NeoSeer
I work in a post-production/broadcast facility and so am very aware of oversaturated colors, however I think you and I are in the extreme minority.
You're saying that the average consumer will be bothered by oversaturation, but I think it's actually what they want and think looks good.
This is somewhat analogous to car stereos and their "Loud" button which gives an extreme boost to the bass and treble because people think that is what sounds good, when in reality they should be listening to a system EQ-d to be as flat as possible so that you're hearing it as it was originally recorded.
This is also why average people tend to gravitate toward the "sport" or "dynamic" picture settings which crank the contrast/saturation to unnatural levels.
They basically want us to chage TV every year,120hz, led, 240hz, 3D, and OLED last. Just focus at Plasma when image matter and cost is low, instead they try to charge us overprice for almost the same image but some upgrade just like those tiny point and shoot camera out there.
Nothing to do with cost they just want to milk LCD Displays and what's left of plasmas. When it starts to go tits up they'll conveniently start to change towards OLEDs.
is this what they would call "polar porn"?
@skyblaze
Yes. And if they were bi-sexual it would be bi-polar porn.
@skyblaze HAHAHA polar bear junk!
does anyone care about 3D in their home yet? i mean we don't even have all programming in HD yet, let alone 3D.
i guess the World Cup this year will be a big test for the 3D format
It's 2010 and I'm already bringing better things in sizes larger than 11-inches...
The BRAVIA Internet Video Link supports Netflix and Amazon VOD. Does that mean that the PS3 will support both natively?
Netflix we already knew was coming, but I would be surprised about Amazon VOD since that would directly compete with the Playstation Video Store.
Of course they _want_ us to buy a new TV every year, but we don't have to :) Personally, if I had the funds I would. If not only because I love the smell of new tech :)
Building a large scale LCD fab is expensive and I don't blame Sony or anyone for milking the cow they've created. OLED will get here when good and ready and it will impress. I'm sure of it. But hey, I'm a positive guy :)
We live in fun times, in regards of technology.
I really, really want OLED technology to become standard. I've messed around with a Zune HD, and it's the best looking display I've ever seen. It's just so vivid, and its power consumption is ridiculously low to boot. What we need is a technological break though that will allow manufacturers to produce them much cheaper, since they're only really viable in portable devices at the moment.
In the mean time? I think RGBLEDs will be a nice place to advance to. LED TVs are just getting there way into retailers, and Dell's RGBLED laptop display is pretty awesome. I wouldn't mind having that be the bridge to OLED, as compared just LED sets.
@kenny goo The thing with RGB LEDs and LED in general is that it's still an LCD screen simply with LED backlighting (replacing older CCFL backlights). You still get thinner screens, better blacks and lower power consumption. You're still using an LCD screen, just the lighting changes.
But OLED is an actual replacement for the LCD and therefore a world of difference from LED backlit screens as OLED doesn't even require a backlight to work.
@DAZA
True, which is why I've always looked at LED as a bridge technology. It replaces the CCFL bulbs with LED backlighting that makes better looking, thinner, more energy efficient displays. It's still LCD, but it is quite the step up. The problem now is that a bridge technology can't last as long as LED might need to last if OLED is going to take this long to be cheap to produce and be adopted. LED will then become a standard and it'll be competing with OLED and LCD at the same time. I think that's gonna wreck havoc with the TV and monitor market.
@DAZA
I beg to differ, sir. RGBLED has several more letters added to LED than OLED. The benefits are much too obvious to ignore, as those extra letters always make for a better display.
I don't get it. What is the Internet Video Link? Is it a hardware dongle that will enable Netflix and other streaming sites? Hulu?
Or is it simply software to display to Bravia TVs?
If the latter, what difference does that make? The PS3 can't natively play many video codecs anyway. (I use playon on my PS3 but would love a native solution so I don't have to have a PC on to use this function).
When they have perfect color and offer an 85" version at a price below $10,000 I'll be interested.
Viral video with polar bear pooping nastily in the water comes to mind for some reason... o 0
Plasma ftw... But, I do wish Sony would start to be more innovative in a way we could actually enjoy the products i.e. Samsung.
Also....
I really dislike all this 3D nonsense going on. Who wants to wear specialized glasses for everything they watch?
Boo-urns.
So Sony isn't raising the prices of their sets with the new 3D tech ? Maybe that's because past their entry level sets they are ridiculously overpriced and overrated to begin with - just like the Monster and Bose brands . Plasma has the much better black levels and shadow detail anyway , while Sony bailed on plasma to focus LCDs . Still I know some people who will buy nothing else but a Sony , inferior picture quality or not .Reminds me of a guy I know who wants a dual sport motorcycle , but refuses to buy one because Harley doesn't make one . There's a fine line between brand loyalty and outright stubbornness/stupidity !