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No Sony OLED Displays In 2004

Posted by timothy on from the hang-onto-your-saliva dept.

Anonymous Howard writes "Designtechnica is reporting that Sony will not introduce any OLED displays in 2004 as previously anticipated. Sony was planning on producing 300,000 2-inch OLED panels per month for its portable devices such as DSCs (digital still cameras) and PDAs. Surprisingly, there have only been a handful of products out that use OLED displays; Samsung has a cell phone and MSI has an MP3 player, for example."

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  1. Cost of OLEDs by sethstorm · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The barrier to use of the OLED's is really the cost compared to conventional LCD's, and that also counts that OLED's have somewhat of a lessened life to them. Once they get this down, then you'll probably see more on the bandwagon for OLED (If they can be made to last at least 30 years, you can at least be competitive with conventional LCD with durability as well as price).

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    1. Re:Cost of OLEDs by laing · · Score: 2, Insightful

      30 years is nuts. We don't even know if LCD or TFT displays will last that long since they haven't been around even half that time.

      I think once they can produce OLED cells that last more than about 5 years on average, you'll see them go mainstream. Anything less than that could end up costing the manufacturer big in terms of warranty obligations.

  2. The answer is probably in the article by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the panels still have a shorter life span than TFT LCD panels

    and my guess is, they rushed their mass production announcement before doing the QA for full PR effect, and the stress-tests showed the shorter life span to be quite dramatically shorter than expected.

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  3. Re:Vested Interest in not using OLED by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Sony just sank a huge amount of cash in building a new LCD plant with Samsung. Why would they want to promote OLED? This was in the news all over the place in the last couple of days."

    I'm not claiming to be an expert on this topic, but wasn't one of the big selling points of OLED technology that current LCD facilities could be upgraded to handle it relatively cheaply?

    Not sure if I'm right on that or not, but Sony has demonstrated that they are interested in having a kick ass display. Go see their ultra-brite or whatever it is laptops they have at circuit city.

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