OLED TVs Arriving Within the Next Three Years

Anonymous Howard writes "Toshiba and Matsushita, in a joint venture, are going to be bringing OLED TV panels to market within 3 years! Granted, the size of the panel is only 20.8 inches, but that is a huge step up from the small OLED screens used in cell phones and other portable devices. It will have a resolution of 1,280 by 768 pixels (WXGA) and handles 16.7 million colors. No specifications on contrast, brightness, or refresh rates have been released, but such specs wouldn't necessarily be indicative of OLED displays to be released in three years' time."

Comments

Talk about late to market

[sunderland56]

OK, they will start arriving in 3 years, they don't do true HDTV when everyone else is at 1080p, and they're only 20 inch diagonal. Wow, I'm sure the marketplace will just snap them up like hotcakes - especially since they'll start off at an inflated "new technology" price point.

When you've got a $5000 20" OLED set, and your buddy's got a $3000 50" plasma 1080p set, who's going to win the pissing war, or host the cool SuperBowl party??

Re:why not 1080p

[maxume]

2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*3=768. For 4:3 screens(thats where the 3 comes from), there is some reason to presume that it increased addressing efficiency(memory wise) to use a power of two and it just got pulled along for legacy reasons. For other ratios, who knows, but probably inertia as much as anything else(and addressing that many lines is straightforward as 3 blocks of 256, which is probably as good a reason as any).