Ultra-thin TV to hit the market

[SetoTK]

An ultra-thin television brighter and crisper than current generation screens will go on sale from Sony in December.
The TV uses organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) to produce the image, resulting in a screen only 3mm thick.

OLED screens are more energy efficient than LCD panels as they do not need a backlight to boost brightness.

But it is difficult and expensive to make large screens using the technology. Sony's first OLED TV costs £850 and has an 11in display.

OLED screens are brighter than LCD panels and also have better contrast ratio - resulting in sharper pictures.

The diodes emit a brilliant white light when attached to an electricity supply and are also being developed for use as replacements to traditional light bulbs.

Colour display

Different organic materials produce different colours and are combined to produce a colour display.

Sony has hailed the new television as a signal of its returning strength as a technology innovator.

"Some people have said attractive products are slow to come at Sony despite its technological strength," said Sony president Ryoji Chubachi at a news conference at its Tokyo headquarters.

He added: "I want this world's first OLED TV to be the symbol of the revival of Sony's technological prowess.

"I want this to be the flag under which we charge forward to turn the fortunes around."

Other firms are also working on OLED screens - Samsung has shown off a 40-inch TV using the technology - but Sony is the first to market.

"I don't think OLED TVs will replace LCD TVs overnight. But I do believe this is a type of technology with very high potential, something that will come after LCD TVs," said Sony executive deputy president Katsumi Ihara.

The new TV goes on sale in Japan on 1 December. There are no plans for a global launch as yet.

The OLED TV has a lifespan of about 30,000 hours of viewing - half that of Sony's LCD televisions.

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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7022639.stm
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[froggyboy604]

That's cool, but will it be better then a high quality CRT HDTV display that's cheaper?

[SetoTK]

That's cool, but will it be better then a high quality CRT HDTV display that's cheaper?

Not yet, but what important is that we're starting to get the old CRT image colour display backand at an even smaller size,

CRT will not be ousted yet, nor for a few years after OLED tv's come into circulation, LCD tv's have always been and always will be crap, dark fuzzy and incredibly poor reliability

there's still a ways to go with OLED tv's but a tv that can be 3mm thickness and if it can be done to size just think of how much that would advance home entertainment cover a wall with one of these puppies and you'll lost maybe an inch of the room size, rather than 2-3ft with conventiaonal CRT's or 10" with crt's (plasma's suck and are way over priced so i have not included them)

[froggyboy604]

are projection TVs or projectors any better then LCDs and plasmas.

What ever happened to SED tv technology? Back in 2005 a lot of tech sites and blogs were raving about how great SED TV were, but the price is too high.

http://www.hdtvsolutions.com/sed_tvs.htm

[SetoTK]

A quick google shoes a few examples, though looks like it may of been pushed back a year,

though only time will tell

From engadget.com

Canon & Toshiba brought SED out at CEATEC 2006 to show that this CRT in a flat panel's body will finally be hitting shelves in limited quantities by late 2007, and entering mass production in 2008. Leading the charge will be these 1080p 55-inch models with 450 nits of brightness, 50,000:1 contrast ratio (yes, you read that right), stunning 1ms response time...and no price tag yet. Part of the delay for SED has been so Canon and Toshiba can improve cost effectiveness to accompany the incredible specs, but with Samsung, Sharp and Sony releasing "Full HD" LCDs in the 50-inch range for around 5 large this fall, the market in 2008 could be tough to crack.

so it just looks like they have been pushed back though it is just from that review bloody impressive, just hope they don't gost 3 arms and a couple of legs, as i gonna have to start amputating people again, any volunteers?