Samsung announces 31″ OLED display
OLED panels are the next big thing when it comes to TVs and other consumer electronics from cameras to cell phones. The OLED screen promises more compact dimensions, less power consumption and brighter images. Small OLED screens are currently found on some cell phones and LCD TV makers are looking for larger OLED screens to use in HDTVs. Reuters reports that Samsung recently unveiled a 31-inch active-matrix OLED screen. Samsung says it will have a 31-inch OLED prototype TV on display at CES 2008 in January. Samsung declined to comment on the commercial availability of TVs using the 31-inch OLED panel stating that the panel being available for retail purchase would depend on TV makers’ plans.
With the very high cost of the Sony XEL-1, the first commercially available OLED TV retailing for over $1,700 USD, the price for a 31-inch Samsung panel equipped OLED TV is a frightening thought for many. Samsung didn’t comment on potential pricing for TVs using its 31-inch OLED panel. Samsung says its new 31-inch OLED panel is only 4.3mm thick and uses less than half the power required of a typical 32-inch TV. The panel’s lifespan is 35,000 hours, which is the best lifespan of existing AM-OLED panels. Exactly how many of the panels Samsung will be able to produce is unknown. Sony is limited to 2,000 of its XEL-1 11-inch OLED TVs per month because of production limits for the OLED panels. This looks really good, but the price will be most likely the biggest issue here.
Source: DailyTech
sweet i might buy one
I’ll get one for sure , when they come down in price anyway , they look so wicked, but for a 31″ screen I’d be willing to pay $3000 NZD tops
2000 screens per month is ridiculous, no wonder they are expensive.
the stand looks crappy
give it time…..give it time….
What i can’t understand is that I am working on £400 laptop with 15.4″ LCD and the screen thickness is about the same as this OLED screen. Why do the larger they get the thicker they get ? (power supply ?) I can understand with CRT. Obviously I am totally ignorant on the workings of LCD, but it strikes me the first person to make existing LCD thinner will be onto a winner.
High pricing is the biggest issue for most of us, so ill let a couple of months fly before getting one of these babies.
Uber thin body like my anti-glare screen used in my older CRT monitor
Looks ugly though when viewing sideways
the one shown is a SONY not Samsung foo!
lol can this thing slice bread its so thin lol
gunit is rite…the image makes absolutely no sense.
some weird Sony_Screen does neither illustrate OLEDs nor Samsung.
How is OLED different from LCD?
More reliability / less dead pixels? Better viewing angle?
Lower power consumption will not make people buy them imo.. it would have to give a much better picture, particularly being higher in price.
From wiki
“OLEDs enable a greater range of colors, brightness, and viewing angle than LCDs, because OLED pixels directly emit light. OLED pixel colors appear correct and unshifted, even as the viewing angle approaches 90 degrees from normal. LCDs use a backlight and cannot show true black, while an “off” OLED element produces no light and consumes no power.
A standard LCD currently has an average of 8-12 millisecond response time, an OLED can have less than 0.01ms response time.”
Sound good for gaming, the only problem is the lifetime is significantly reduced from ~60,000 hours down to only 20,000.
anyone know when we could reasonably expect these in the shops and what price levels?
i mean how long is the wait going to be for a reasonably affordable 32 inch for eg
I think 31″ is a stupid size. It’s too big for my office and too small for my living room. I rather see a cheaper 24″ which would be perfect for my office.
What is the resolution on this panel anyway?
@ 9 + 11: its about the panels. the panel is samsung, capisce!
Read about this oled technology a few years ago…I feel sorry for those who spent 2k plus on their lcd or plasma….cannot wait for these to hit the market. Definately will purchase..and a samsung at that.
These are great monitors and all, but are already obsolete, actually were obsolete 6 years ago when the roll of plastic that is actually a tv/computer screen began development. Why the uber thin plastic screens havent come out yet, I don’t know, but they sure beat these outdated types of screens, hands down.
Seriously, stick with what you got now, don’t fall for this little piece of marketing with the OLED’s, wait for the new plastic screens you can roll up and take anywhere. Trust me, they’re real, and they are coming in the next two years, by my estimates.
What about SED ?? Are they supposed to be better than OLED ? I have read about the two technologies a while ago and if a remember correctly it was said that SED is supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread (or fake breasts haha)
Being the best thing since sliced bread, does that imply that sliced bread is actually better than Halo3?
great cezars ghost! you have to see these oled tvs in person. lcd only shows 40% of true colors. the oled doubles that %. super vibrant and no viewing angle, consumers less power, i can just keep going on. SED was canned a while ago, and i am glad to see oled surviving.
20000 hours lifespan? That’s roughly 2.3 years… That must be resolved before regular consumers are going to put down cash for one of these screens.
It’s only 2.3 years if you have the tv permanently on 24hrs a day.
Hmm, so this wouldn’t be good to play game or using as a monitor then, such short life time lolz . Good as tv though, hardly ever using it now lolz .
I dont think you should really listen to that lifespan thing.
Lol, ive got a 2nd generation plasma….. they told me something ridiculous as the lifespan and even till now like 5+ yrs later its still working…. And still quite impressed about it.
all these technologies suffer from limited life (short life span of solid state blue light emitters) compared to CRT
Also the color range of CRT’s is much wider which is why i will be using CRT’s on my desktop for some years to come.