Is OLED the future of flat panel TV technology?

Hi All,

I personally think the new organic LED (OLED) screen technology is
pretty exciting, as seen at Sony . The thinness of the screen is
unbeatable and the picture quality is amazing. My only complaint would
be you can't mount the TVs because the thin screen doesn't contain all
of the hardware, which is stored in a base.

What do you think? Is OLED the next big thing in flat TVs, or will
another emerging technology soon surpass it?

Chiefmfg wrote:
Hi All,

I personally think the new organic LED (OLED) screen technology is
pretty exciting, as seen at Sony . The thinness of the screen is
unbeatable and the picture quality is amazing. My only complaint would
be you can't mount the TVs because the thin screen doesn't contain all
of the hardware, which is stored in a base.

What do you think? Is OLED the next big thing in flat TVs, or will
another emerging technology soon surpass it?

Given sufficient time, OLED will take over the market. It is much
better than LED, but quite expensive at the present time.

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:54:22 -0700 (PDT), Chiefmfg
wrote:

I personally think the new organic LED (OLED) screen technology is
pretty exciting, as seen at Sony . The thinness of the screen is
unbeatable and the picture quality is amazing. My only complaint would
be you can't mount the TVs because the thin screen doesn't contain all
of the hardware, which is stored in a base.

What do you think? Is OLED the next big thing in flat TVs, or will
another emerging technology soon surpass it?

Who knows. OLED has been two years away for about five years now.
All I want is a cell phone with an OLED screen so I can read the durn
thing in sunlight, but even that is still nearly impossible to get.

J.

In article Chiefmfg writes:
Hi All,

I personally think the new organic LED (OLED) screen technology is
pretty exciting, as seen at Sony . The thinness of the screen is
unbeatable and the picture quality is amazing. My only complaint would
be you can't mount the TVs because the thin screen doesn't contain all
of the hardware, which is stored in a base.

What do you think? Is OLED the next big thing in flat TVs, or will
another emerging technology soon surpass it?


Inorganic LEDs lose brightness as fast as (or faster than) phosphors, so image
burn in is a potential problem. Organic ones have even shorter life.

OLED is a brand new technology. Plasma and LCD are through many generations of
development. It seems unlikely OLED will catch up in the next few years.

Every few months someone appears here in this group telling how wonderful OLED
technology is/will be. However, most of the time, there were no products. Even
now, there are very few.

If you look at picture quality, plasma has amazing quality as well. It is easy
to tweak comparisons in displays.

Alan

On Jul 23, 12:13�am, (Alan) wrote:
In article Chiefmfg writes:

� Inorganic LEDs lose brightness as fast as (or faster than) phosphors, so image
burn in is a potential problem. �Organic ones have even shorter life.

� � � � Alan


It may be a POTENTIAL problem, Alan, but it certainly isn't an ACTUAL
one. After two years of watching my LCD TV and seven years of
watching my LCD computer monitor, there is no sign of burn-in. (My
digital wrist watch display is burn-free as well.)

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:59:49 -0700 (PDT), "www.locoworks.com"
wrote:

On Jul 23, 12:13?am, (Alan) wrote:
In article Chiefmfg writes:

? Inorganic LEDs lose brightness as fast as (or faster than) phosphors, so image
burn in is a potential problem. ?Organic ones have even shorter life.

? ? ? ? Alan


It may be a POTENTIAL problem, Alan, but it certainly isn't an ACTUAL
one. After two years of watching my LCD TV and seven years of
watching my LCD computer monitor, there is no sign of burn-in. (My
digital wrist watch display is burn-free as well.)

I think you misread his post. He was talking about LEDs (light
emitting diodes), not LCDs (liquid crystal displays). Two very
different technologies.

My impression is that the source signal and the HDTV adjustments are more
important than the type of HDTV chosen.

On Jul 23, 10:08�am, greenpjs wrote:

I think you misread his post. �He was talking about LEDs (light
emitting diodes), not LCDs (liquid crystal displays). �Two very
different technologies.


You are right, Mr, Green. My error entirely.

JXStern wrote:

All I want is a cell phone with an OLED screen so I can read the durn
thing in sunlight, but even that is still nearly impossible to get.

Ha!!!

Amen brother!!

Haven't had a cell phone yet that was any good in
sunlight!

Cubit wrote:
My impression is that the source signal and the HDTV adjustments are more
important than the type of HDTV chosen.


Not so. I have the so-called current best Sony, a 50 inch XBR4. Before
I had it professionally calibrated the picture quality indeed varied a
lot with source, but the back light bleed through in dark scenes was
really bad.

After the professional calibration the color is certainly more accurate,
but the backlight bleed through in dark scenes is as bad as ever. The
technican said there was little he could do about it.

The picture is amazingling good with a recent vingtage Blueray disk,
unless there is a really dark scene. And, the tonal gradation is good
with this high end source.

But, with the average 1080i source the gradation in high contrast scenes
sucks, which it did not with my "old" Sony Vega set.

So, the technology does matter.

If I had it to do over again, I would buy the high-end 1080p Pioneer plasma.