LG is getting serious about pushing OLED into homes sooner than you think. We’ve seen various OLED TV models before, but LG is one of the first companies to kick off the OLED TV revolution.
From what we’ve seen, LG is serious about its OLED manufacturing, where it invested $226 million in mid-2010 to create a new production facility, tripling its OLED capacity. Many other manufacturers are whispering about OLED screens. There are already smaller OLED screens available now, albeit at exorbitant prices. There are small OLED screens on millions of smartphones
The specifications of the pictured OLED TV is as follows:
Model: 55EM9600
Resolution: 1080p Full HD
Contrast ratio: 100,000,000:1
Refresh rate: less than 0.1 microseconds
Panel depth: 4mm
Weight: 16.5 pounds
Features: 3D Ready, 2D Ready, Triple XD engine
OLED TV’s will bring consumers superior contrast ratios (since there is no need for a back-light the organic materials emit their own light), even thinner displays (they can even bend and be embedded within a T-Shirt), much better viewing angles, more vibrant colors, and lower average power consumption. Basically, they are better in almost every respect when compared to LCD or LED LCD TVs.
The promising fact: huge OLED screens can be printed onto razor-thin surfaces using a process akin to an inkjet printer, theoretically making them even cheaper to produce than today’s LCD and plasma screens. And the screens have much faster response time, with refresh rates that could (again, theoretically) reach 100,000 Hz.
Source: Guru3D.com, OLD-Display.net
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2D ready?
what now thats a marketing thing as well?
jee i better get this new 2d TV, because well DURRRRR
hehehe, totally. Just wait for 1D!!
Yeah, sort of laughable they included that in the specifications. On the other hand, if you look into what OLED TVs can promise, it is definitely a leg up and hopefully we will see affordable displays in the not so distant future given this new snippet of information.
It’s not a real OLED TV. It just got a OLED backlight.
Ah, heh, if that’s the case then expect a lot of companies to follow suit with that kind of marketing. It’s their way of drawing in the consumer instead of letting them know it’s really just and lcd screen with the OLED backlight. It makes sense from that stand point, but yeah it will be a bit misleading in that regard :).
Where do you see that mentioned? I don’t think you can get better response time by just using a different backlight technology due to the delay of LCD technology.
Here’s another source.
There’s no mention of OLED technology being used just as a backlight. The OLEDs themselves emit their own light. So, for this television, it is both the display technology and the backlight technology used.
The only instance I see OLED being used as a backlight is here. Apple has a patent on it for one of their next products.
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EDIT:
If you read the comments on this article, you will see that this is another source indicating that the OLED’s are not just used for the backlight.
Here’s a comment I pulled from the above source (some claim that this TV uses OLED technology just as a backlight, but they immediately get corrected):
Inquiry:
Reply:
white OLED with red/green/blue filters.
that’s what what backlight is -_- just that they’re not layering it below LCD to control the light…
the OLED screens in phones and sony’s OLED TV have three different OLED subpixels for every pixel.
I wonder how this affects the color and brightness… probably would be better than the ones on the phones i assume. (not that it matters, most of them are perfectly readable under direct sunlight)
That is awesome! Those specs, if accurate, are outstanding. I’m sure they will be ridiculously expensive when released for consumers, but that will be my next investment. I skipped the LED TV phase, and I’m skipping the initial 3D TV phase for now, so only when those become affordable will I consider replacing my LCD workhorse TV.
Am I the only one who was looking at the girl?