OLED DEVICES - OLED NEWS BLOG: CES 2008 - HDTV's

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

CES 2008 - HDTV's - SuperThin Is In !

Samsung 31" AM-OLED TV

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Samsung

One of the biggest attractions at the Las Vegas 2008 CES show was the Samsung SDI (Samsung's affiliate dedicated to display production ) premiere of their 14.1 inch and the 31" AMOLED TV (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode tv technology). Samsung is now in the lead for creating OLED mid-sized displays however speculation is when they will end up in stores is another issue altogether.

Their organic displays will use half the power of other types of tv's but allow for the extreme 1million:1 contrast, 1080p resolution, colour gamut of 107%, brightness of 550nit, super deep blacks with colour only seen on OLED screens. The blacks in OLED displays are simply areas of the screen that do not phosphorize, so they are really a true black FPD in its true sense compared to other types avaialable.

Even though problems are presently found in manufacturing larger OLED screens, Samsung comes through with their razorthin 9.3mm 31" OLED TV at 40-50% lighter than LCD's of the same screen size. The panels life expectancy is said to be around 35,000 hours. Which is among the best in the active-matrix organic panels made to date by far.

It looks like samsung will begin commercial production of the mid to large size OLED TV's around 2009-2010. Samsung also showcased their 52 inch ultra-slim LCD TV and quadruple HD-LCD TV with a 50,000:1 contrast, 550 nit and mass production commencing in 2009. President of Samsung's Digital Media Business, Dr. Jongwoo Park, says " OLED and quadruple full-hd technologies represent an entirely new paradigm in picture resolution technology. This is a level of clarity that is in some cases four times beyond current industry standards, yet retain the slim fit and lightweight profile preferred among our customers".

Panasonic
Panasonic rocked the house when they unveiled their mind blowing 150-inch plasma television they say will be shipping by years end. This behemoth, said to be the world's largest plasma tv, sports : 4k x 8K" resolution ( about 8 megapixels). Panasonic was proud to state that 9 50 inch panels could replace it.

Pioneer

Pioneer Corps. showed their latest plasma display prototype that is just 9 millimeters thick or three eigths of an inch, now said to be the world's thinnest 50" diagonal tv coming in at 41 lbs. Their new Kuro concept tv's push the barriers of thin and lighweight displays, the company says. The Extreme Contrast TV gets to absolute black, says Pioneer. The tv has no backlight.....it uses chemicals embedded into the panel which emits light to illuminate the images. So when their is no charge their is absolute black.. They are looking at 2009 for their thin tech displays to make it into retail stores however.

Hitachi
Hitachi Ltd. showed off their newest LCD prototype display that is twice as thick as the Pioneer plasma model, a 50" PDP TV at a super slim 1.5 inches, whcih is the name of this particular model with three sizes of 1.5" lcd tv's - 32", 37", 40".

Sony
Sony debuted their 27" OLED TV with 1080p res and predictions are looking at 2009 for this one. The XEL-1 is now shipping into North America for around $2,500 but that will eventually come down as time and larger screens are produced.