Interesting that in this thread, all comments about Sony just making an outrageous profit have been down ranked to oblivion. Must be some Sony rep concerned that the truth of the matter is coming to light.
Anyone commenting on this thread ever see an XEL-1 in person? I did. For $2,500 US, the picture quality was, IMHO, no where near a bargain for the price. The sole advantage that an OLED in that size has is the fact that you can see it in sunlight. For me, it is not worth the price nor is the "energy savings" anywhere near enough to justify spending 100 times the money on a display of that size.
IMHO, you would think that Sony had learned its lesson with the XEL-1 (Engadget did post an article saying that Sony was taking them off the market). Yet they come out with this.
Though there undoubtedly some out there who will have to have this either for a good reason or because they have to have the latest in display technology, my bet is that it will sell no better than the XEL-1 did.
Like it or not, while OLEDs like this and LG's 15-incher are priced in the $200+ per inch range, they will not sell well no matter their advantages. However, the geniuses that run these companies will probably take the fact that OLEDs in that price range do not sell well as a sign of "no market interest" instead of facing the truth and realizing "we priced it to high for the market."
@wiyosaya Which part of 'Professional' did you not understand? The pro market is so distant from the consumer market, any comparison is hopelessly (and hilariously) irrelevant. Maybe you should take a look at the wares of other purveyors of professional products and accuse them of 'making an outrageous profit' too. Of course the commercially available OLED screens will only sell in tiny numbers, they cost a lot, and are only available in very small sizes. If you genuinely think these were produced to sell in great quantities, you are misguided. It's an almost identical story to LCD TV's initial commercial release twenty-ish years ago. Small screens, prohibitively priced. I wonder if we'll be posting these comments again twenty years from now when the replacement for OLED shows up in a small, very expensive form...
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Interesting that in this thread, all comments about Sony just making an outrageous profit have been down ranked to oblivion. Must be some Sony rep concerned that the truth of the matter is coming to light.
Anyone commenting on this thread ever see an XEL-1 in person? I did. For $2,500 US, the picture quality was, IMHO, no where near a bargain for the price. The sole advantage that an OLED in that size has is the fact that you can see it in sunlight. For me, it is not worth the price nor is the "energy savings" anywhere near enough to justify spending 100 times the money on a display of that size.
IMHO, you would think that Sony had learned its lesson with the XEL-1 (Engadget did post an article saying that Sony was taking them off the market). Yet they come out with this.
Though there undoubtedly some out there who will have to have this either for a good reason or because they have to have the latest in display technology, my bet is that it will sell no better than the XEL-1 did.
Like it or not, while OLEDs like this and LG's 15-incher are priced in the $200+ per inch range, they will not sell well no matter their advantages. However, the geniuses that run these companies will probably take the fact that OLEDs in that price range do not sell well as a sign of "no market interest" instead of facing the truth and realizing "we priced it to high for the market."
Dream on Sony!
@wiyosaya
Which part of 'Professional' did you not understand? The pro market is so distant from the consumer market, any comparison is hopelessly (and hilariously) irrelevant. Maybe you should take a look at the wares of other purveyors of professional products and accuse them of 'making an outrageous profit' too.
Of course the commercially available OLED screens will only sell in tiny numbers, they cost a lot, and are only available in very small sizes. If you genuinely think these were produced to sell in great quantities, you are misguided. It's an almost identical story to LCD TV's initial commercial release twenty-ish years ago. Small screens, prohibitively priced. I wonder if we'll be posting these comments again twenty years from now when the replacement for OLED shows up in a small, very expensive form...