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."

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Re:Better color gamut

[ajs]

In the article from Toshiba/Matsushita that TFA references, I found the following blurb that answers my question:

In addition, the OLED panel features an ultra-wide viewing angle, a thinner profile due to the eliminated backlighting system and other peripheral elements, and energy conservation offering eco-friendly advantages.

Woohoo! I can't wait to buy one (though I'll likely wait for 32+" versions.

Was hoping for superior LCDs...

[bluefoxlucid]

I was hoping for superior LCDs like those used in the OLPC. Jepsen developed an LCD display that, instead of using a crappy high-power fluorescent backlight and filters, uses a bright-white LED and a diffraction grating to deliver a display. This results in a much wider gamut, because of the wider color gamut of the white LED. It also uses 1/7 the power of a normal LCD display, because the light comes from the LED and gets redirected out the proper pixel; the brightness of the LED is adjusted as needed (an LED switches on/off effectively instantly, you can read the network signal on gigabit ethernet by sticking an LED inline). It's also cheap because existing LCD fabrication technology can be easily modified in place to do this (retooling), rather than being completely replaced with OLED fabrication technology.

Root poster must be joking.

[Anonymous Coward]

OLED displays degrade very rapidly, from day 1 on... the blue elements have a life-time of about 5000 hours, the red and green about 60000 hours. You can expec to get about 40000 out of a typical display, which of course will look like crap due to loss in color fidelity.

I've very sceptical of this claim of OLED TVs in 3 years. Remember ?

Re:Blue Is The Colour

[drinkypoo]

In order to kill your OLED TV with a 20,000 hour life blue, you would have to leave it on the blue screen for 54.79 hours per day. A quick back of the napkin calculation reveals that you are in fact a dumbass.