Sony's new 11.7-inch OLED panel boasts better colors, longer lifespan
By Donald Melanson 
posted June 1st 2010 2:11PM
posted June 1st 2010 2:11PM
Sony may have killed production of its groundbreaking XEL-1 OLED TV, but that doesn't mean it isn't necessarily working on a followup -- it's just unveiled a new and improved, and similarly sized OLED panel at SID 2010 last week. Apparently, the big advance with this display comes courtesy of the oxide semiconductor TFT (also known as IGZO) used for the OLED panel, which Sony was able to tweak enough to deliver a ten year lifespan -- with average use, we presume. What's more, while the panel still packs the same 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and 960 x 540 resolution as the XEL-1, it does increase the brightness to 600 cd/m2 (up from 200 before), and Sony says it has a significantly improved color gamut as well. Of course, it is still just a prototype, and it's not 3D, so any eventual products using it might not be Sony's top priority at the moment.
I want cheap 50" OLED tv =D .... Give us the future!
@DeviantmacG, I'm kind of curious how OLED handles high DPI like a 50" screen. They could make a 1080p display in a 13.3 laptop, almost seems wasteful for the tech.
@Templarian Actually, 1080p on a 50" is a rather low dpi. 1080p on a 13.3" is much more "fine". But dpi is really a misnomer anyways when talking about screens. PPI is more telltale.
@DeviantmacG You can already get 50inch plasmas that deliver a very impressive image quality and what I really want from OLED is a decent 24inch 1920x1200 PC monitor. The three 24 & 26inch 1920x1200 LCD monitors I have are total crap in terms of contrast, black level, viewing angle, colour gamut and colour uniformity. I'm terrified my FW900 CRT monitor will break since I absolutely need that for gaming and viewing images since LCDs are totally unacceptable for those purposes.
I'm constantly hoping for news of an OLED computer monitor but it seems they're permanently a 2-3 years away. Hopefully the FW900 can hang in there a bit longer.
every time i read AMOLED, the first thing that hear in my head is the AMOLED song;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEWkDQI0jN4
@Zylam
You seriously got me addicted to that song o_o;
@MegaJapan
haha Mega you've got not idea, i don't even understand but its hard burned into my system.. has you're AMOLED life changed?
mulay mulay A-A-AMOLED AMOLED
even better colours?!?! i think they were good enough, let's increase the size people!
@nicholasphan
That's what sh... (sorry).
...power consumption?
@Lashoutdancingwhenyouregone
over 9000
@Lashoutdancingwhenyouregone Amoled uses less power
Ok, SONY. That what you did in the past 4 years?
Where the real products at least have 720P and 1080P resolution and around 20 inches size. There are a lot of rumor said LG and SAMSUNG are planning to release such produce this year or next year. Are you sure you want to lose all the advantage which you already have?
That's should be the top priority and the only priority, not stupid 3D. Are you really think all the people like to wear glasses to watch very limited 3D content?
@berserksun
Produce? are you talking about a head of lettuce, or what?? :)
@berserksun Sony isnt going to put out something thats not ready, or way too expensive for the consumer market. And while Samsung and LG MIGHT be releasing OLEDS soon, they still havent
I don't know why the industry is forcIng 3D TV down the consumers throat.
How many of us have a 3D Tv or is willing to buy a 250 dollar glasses?
You won't see me buying or wearing and goofy, expensive glasses in the near future!
Why are you talking about 3-d?
And yes, those glasses are an offensive rip-off. A better solution would be two projectors, a silver screen, and polarized glasses.
@Av4ry
3D, at least on a hardware side is a natural, inherent capability of increasingly better 2D specs. 120Hz+ and higher bandwidth connections like HDMI 1.4a are the only standard things that make 3D possible, both natural evolutions of 2D.
3D is an option, but an inherent option if increasing 2D specs such as refresh rate, but TVs costing more for it is pretty much a myth, the same size TVs launching last year cost about the same, except these ones have better specs as 2D sets, as well as 3D capability.
The 3D glasses and transmitters are a little pricey but like any new revisions of tech, things are gonna cost a little more money, it's natural and things will drop in price quite rapidly. But you're not gonna be forced into going 3D, don't buy it if you don't want and you're still gonna have a great 2D set that meets you needs as a 2D set.
But whether you like it or not, any medium or large displays you buy in a few years time will be 3D-capable...it'll have 120Hz+, HDMI 1.4a+, a built in transmitter and possibly some charging function like a flip down powermat.
...but it's not gonna impact your 2D viewing experience in any way, it will just be able to do 3D if you want and if you wanna buy glasses you can and you can link them up for films, dramas, games or sport and then toggle it back to 2D for the rest of the evening, and some higher end sets may come with glasses.
@Kromatik
I'm happy with my samsung LED TV 8500 series.
Thanks but no thanks for the 3D TV option.
I dont think we'll be seeing a 11'' OLED sporting netbook even by 2013... :(
Such beautiful colours.. I wish my monitor could deliver those...
Ow wait
I can haz OLED tablet?