No Sony OLED Displays In 2004

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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Kodak uses OLED

[SuperRob]

All of Kodak's digital cameras are using OLED screens. They're probably the biggest shipper of OLED screens right now, but people always forget about them.

Well take a look at one of their screens, and you won't forget. They're GORGEOUS!

LG Phones

[halo1982]

Many of LG's cell phones use the same OLED display. The VX6000, VX5550 the LG 4600 (Telus) and a ton of them in Korean markets. Also Samsungs E715, the upcomming i550 use OLEDs for the outer displays. If you've seen an OLED display you know how attractive and sharp they look, its quite different from an LCD. They also have a very nice expanded viewing angle. Hopefully late this year and next year there will be phones with full color OLEDs as displays.

Vested Interest in not using OLED

[syslog]

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.

naeem

Re:Vested Interest in not using OLED

[aldoman]

So what? LCD will become the CRT-style display in the future - OLED will then take the place of what a LCD display was like when everyone had TFTs, a luxury. Then the prices will start coming down until they have replaced LCDs and the next wave of technology will start.

My god, I love capitalism.

One intresting side of this 'Fire and Motion' is that films look more and more outdated even quicker. Before, it took 5-10 years for your average film to look really outdated when it came to computers, now it's taking much less than 5. Look at the stupid films in the late 90s with their CRT displays ;).

Re:Links links....where are the links!?

[beesquee]

My samsung e715 sees to only have the 16 color oled display, not 256k like the site says. Besides that, an interesting thing I did notice was that the digital clock on the external display is always illuminated andafter a few months of use it's already dimmer then less used graphic diplay under it. Eviendence of blue oled life problems? maybe.

Nomination for tin-foil hat of the day.

[SmallFurryCreature]

First of oled are not yet perfected, secondly all the companies are bitterly fighting with each other. Products being held back can only happen in relatively static conditions where all the players have a intrest in maintaining the current balance.

In electronics there is no such interest. The market for displaying things is huge. More and more things around the house have displays and who ever can make the cheapest/nicest can have a significant advantage.

But for now LCD is not yet dead. The screen size of oled is still low (sure it is going up but so is lcd). What you are suggesting is that the CRT was holding back the LCD. Or the tv industry the computer screen or the paper/dotmatrix industry the tv-screen industry.

Just because sony is having troubles doesn't mean oled isn't happening. As others have pointed out there are plenty of devices out there. I remember when camera's came with CRT viewers instead of the new fangled LCD. Nothing stopped the LCD except the tech and nothing will stop OLED except the tech. To many players who would love to get the holy grail of a cheap clear brilliant display.

roentgen

[sstory]

Whatever happened to the IBM Roentgen?