Found my new TV for the kitchen

this sweet OLED is gonna rock. The res sucks but the contrast ratio, uber-sexiness, and thin-ness are hawt.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/the-sonydrive-xel-1-oled-tv-1-000-000-1-contrast-starting-decem/

 

way to much money. Nice though

 

wait til the phones are using OLED. Better batter life, better picture, thinner. Our A717 uses a a very small OLED for an external display, but i want huge internal displays using it.

 

Organic LED's and Organic Electroluminescense is definately the way of the future. LCD's and plasma's will look prehistoric by comparison. 170 degree viewing angle, low voltage(like 10v compared to 1000's of volts), and low power consumption are just a few of the pluses. What is really cool is that the layers are transparent, so they can be stacked for much higher resolution, or a display could be clear glass untill turned on. Also, organic thin films can be applied to a plastic substrate. That means down the road, a display can be clear plastic that could be rolled up.



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^^ Correction... "wave of the near future" muhahahaha ...and BTW, they already have flexible OLEDs in prototype form...

 

hawt dog

 

OLED's, FOLED's, PHOLED's, TOLED's are old news. While not really to market yet they've been popping up now and then for the past few years.

My question is what ever happened to SED displays. Delay after delay. Never gunna get 'em

 

^^^ Elaborate plz?

 

PHOLED: Phosphorescent OLED (~4x more efficent than standard OLED)
TOLED: Transparent and Top-Emitting OLED (up to 85% transparent when switched off
: Flexible OLED (name says it all. they can flex)


SED TV (Surface-Conduction Electron-Emmiter Display) was a joint venture between Toshiba and Canon. The technology has been in development since 1986. Toshiba's final version will ship with a 100,000:1 native contrast ratio, 1ms response time and a 450 cd/m. It's been delayed time and time again by lawsuits.

here's a description of the tech:

surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) is a flat panel display technology that uses surface conduction electron emitters for every individual display pixel. The surface conduction emitter emits electrons that excite a phosphor coating on the display panel, the same basic concept found in traditional Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) televisions. This means that SEDs use tiny cathode ray tubes behind every single pixel (instead of one tube for the whole display) and can combine the slim form factor of LCD's and plasma displays with the superior viewing angles, contrast, black levels, color definition and pixel response time of CRTs. Canon also claims that SEDs consume less power than LCD displays.

 

Quite sexy. Thank you.

 

that SED stuff is crazy. Less power than LCD? thats impressive.

 

Well, Canon dropped the ball by letting Toshiba in on their licensing of the technology... Nano-Proprietary is the company that owns the patent and they aren't playing. Unfortunately, it looks like SED may be lost due to the greed of one company (Nano) and the stupidity of another (Canon). Now that OLED is being announced, I don't see SED getting the attention it deserves when (or if) it comes out. Technically speaking, it is superior in about every way, but the typical consumer has no clue about technical superiority (look at the current trend with flat-panel TVs for a good example).