RedlightG20 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 How TVs Will Get Much, Much Flatter Plasma is dead. Front and rear projection? Fuggeddaboutit. LCD has a few good years left, and then it's sayonara, baby. TV technology's future lies in tiny phosphorescent molecules.Organic light-emitting diodes--OLEDs--employ a thin layer of organic material that emits light when electricity passes through it. OLED displays need no backlight, so they're ultrathin and flexible. They are also brighter, cheaper to manufacture, and more environmentally friendly than plasma displays or LCDs. Over the next few years, OLED will be coming to a boob tube near you, and later maybe to the walls of your house, or even the windshield of your car. Thin and Rich When Sony showed off its 27-inch active-matrix OLED flat panel at last January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you could hear jaws dropping. A contrast ratio of a million to one, with pure blacks, blinding whites, and brilliant colors; no problems with viewing angles or ambient light; faster response times than LCDs; and low energy consumption--all on a pane of glass thinner than a Bic pen. "OLEDs...reproduce the exact colors a movie maker intended," says Barry Young, OLED expert for DisplaySearch. "LCDs [and plasmas] can't produce 100 percent of the grayscales in the original image...; OLEDs can." Right now, only one model is available: Sony's XEL-1, which measures 11 inches diagonally, costs $2500, and has a short useful-life span. But the XEL-1 is mostly a proof-of-concept item, says Young. OLEDs using newer materials are proving more robust, and eventually they'll long outlast plasma and LCD sets, he adds. This year, the flat-panel industry woke up and smelled the diodes. Samsung SDI--the world's largest maker of OLEDs for cell phones and portable media players--is pumping half a billion dollars into new manufacturing plants. Epson, LG, Toshiba, and other major manufacturers of OLEDs are following suit. Janice Mahone, vice president of technology commercialization for Universal Display, says that consumers should start to see OLED panels in the 20-to-30-inch range in 2009. But it's likely to be two years or more before OLEDs can compete with LCDs on price. A Flat Future OLED isn't the only promising new TV technology. Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)--LED-powered displays that employ millions of microscopic shutters to control light passing through them--use less power than OLEDs, but they trail OLEDs in development. Mahone admits that LCDs have lots of life left, and manufacturers--who are loath to cannibalize their LCD sales--will likely try to keep OLED prices high for several years. In the long run, though, OLED sets will become cheaper to produce, thanks to having less electronics. "You could have a paper-thin, wall-size OLED that displays video, shows photographs, or provides ambient light with a flick of a switch," says Mahone. Transparent OLED technology could provide the same instant control for the windows in your room or for a heads-up display on the windshield of your car. If you're planning on buying a big-screen TV set this year, it won't be an OLED. But your next TV after that one very well could be--if it isn't built into the walls of your next house. http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080730/tc_pcworld/149035;_ylt=AjqP9TxpbFt8XTMz95M2WMQ4k4gC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 yay the days of Fahrenheit 451 are upon us..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosher Ham Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I talked about this a year or so ago. They are still a few years away from having good sized televisions and decent prices. I think they are 3mm thick right now, but have the potential to roll up like a projector screen. They are going to be amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACW Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 $2500 for 11 inches? :yikes::yikes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 $2500 for 11 inches? :yikes::yikes: That's what she said.:doh: This is great. I have a bunch of old TVs from people just giving them away after getting new flat screens. Come on technology, I want some freebee flatties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACW Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 That's what she said.:doh::laugh::laugh::laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 "the windshield of your car" Great. Just what American drivers need, another reason not to look at the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 $2500 for 11 inches? :yikes::yikes: Or better yet. Why, what do you usually pay for 11 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 "the windshield of your car"Great. Just what American drivers need, another reason not to look at the road. likely be heads up display for your speedometer, tachonometer, gas gauge and engine indicator lights. I believe it's illegal to put a TV in a position where the driver can actually watch the TV... Least at Tweeder that's what they told my wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChocolateCitySkin Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 hahahah i'm like you koolblue still rocking my 32 inch trinitron 9 years going strong!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techboy Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Least at Tweeder that's what they told my wife. Right. I'm sure it was "your wife" that was asking Tweeter to install a TV on the windshield of your car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour of Duty Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 $2500 for 11 inches? :yikes::yikes: Taken out of context thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUSkinsFan Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I just finished paying off my 42" Panasonic plasma. OLED will have to wait a couple of years for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Years ago some cars in Japan had TVs viewable by the driver, designed for commuters stuck in traffic. But the screen blacks out when the car is in motion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Prime Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 $2500 for 11 inches? :yikes::yikes: Only for the first 11 inches.. If you want the rest it will cost ya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a778999 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I wrote a paper on this a few years ago. At that time, Kodak still had the patent which prevented any further research and development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbooma Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 This is the same when Plasma hit the streets, first tvs were over 10K LCD's will do just fine till they get the prices down, in about 10 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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