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Samsung To Show 14-inch OLED Display Prototype at CES

by Will Safer on January 2, 2008 at 02:15 PM

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Samsung will be using the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week to show off a prototype OLED-TV set, a technology that promises less power-hungry display screens than what you find now in LCD panels.

What is OLED, you ask? The folks at Kodak have a nice summary of the technology to help you get started.

Production is expected to start later this year.

While OLED screens will start out with price tags much higher than LCD -- likely more than $3,000 for the 14-inch Samsung model -- the benefit is in power conservation. At first glance, saving energy may have you thinking of good "green" products, but in this case the benefit is for small, portable devices such as mobile phones and laptop computers rather than bigger televisions since the biggest drain on a small device is often the display. (The challenge for consumer electronics makers is always to make small devices that don't need big, heavy batteries to provide power.) Think about all the times your digital camera has run out of juice before you were done snapping all the pictures you wanted or your MP3 player made it only halfway though a cross-country flight. A low-power OLED screen would have helped you there.

Portability and low-power consumption go hand in hand.

Small screens are not the only use, however, and both Samsung and Sony hope to use the technology in TVs. Sony, in fact, will be introducing a 3-millimeter thick TV to the U.S. market later this year.

Samsung's prototype will be thicker than its production model the 14-inch screen will be sure to impress.

From BetaNews.


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Tags: CES, OLED, super-thin TVs, Super-thinTvs

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