Sony Unveils 0.3mm Thick OLED Display

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It's been a tick since we've heard anything noteworthy on the e-passport front (that's probably a good thing, truth be told), but Samsung SDI and German security printer Bundesdruckerei are out to break the silence. The two have teamed up to demonstrate a passport that boasts a "slim and bendable" OLED color display within a "polycarbonate data page." 


The market for HDTVs is flooded with competing technologies and not to mention perplexing acronyms and abbreviations -- DLP, LCD, OLED, Plasma, SED. Now you can add Laser TV to your list of display technologies to know. Mitsubishi unveiled a 65-inch laser television at an event during this week's CES -- and people at this week's CES show were buzzing about the incredible color and contrast.
Mitsubishi isn't revealing details about exactly how it works, but we do know it is based on a rear projection system, meaning that this is never going to be as thin as those sexy OLEDs on display. And who knows what the future holds for big and bulky projection TVs, whose stars are falling almost as quickly as those of HD-DVD. But the laser TV does have a leg up in the image quality department. Apparently, colors were so intense and contrast so dramatic that Greg Adler at PC World described it as "artificial" looking.
Pricing isn't available, but Mitsubishi plans to have the displays on the market by fall of 2008.
From Engadget
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We couldn't stop drooling long enough for the Samsung reps to let us near this lust-worthy beauty. Thankfully, the folks over at Engadget were able pick there jaws up off the floor and snag some photos of this ultra thin, environmentally-friendly display.
It's only a prototype right now, and Samsung has no immediate plans to bring these to consumers, but we're sure plans will be announced soon enough. Samsung won't want to leave Sony alone in the OLED market for long, though. So head on over to Engadget to check out what is most certainly the future of TV.
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Not like we couldn't see it coming, but news is that a big theme at this year's CES will be "green technology." The environment, being green, and global warming have been on everyone's minds this year. The Prius, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' OLEDs, and tons of research into alternative power sources and fuels were all the rage in 2007, and '08 doesn't look to be any different.
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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Back in October, Sony wowed us with delicious pictures of a ridiculously thin television, the XEL-1 OLED TV. Its screen enclosure was just three millimeters (about .1-inches!) thick -- or thin rather. Okay, so it's only 11-inches across, meaning you wouldn't want to make one the focal-piece of your home theater system. But it's hard to resist, given its lithe design. It was supposed to be Japan-only, but now Sony's saying we can have one. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait until some undisclosed time next year before the TV gets its U.S. release.
But Hitachi, which unveiled its super-thin prototype to the public today for the first time, isn't alone in the ultra-flat-panel game. Thin LCD TVs are also on display from Sharp (52-inch TV that's .78-inches thick), JVC (42-inch TV that's only 1.4-inches thick, pictured, right), and even Fujitsu, which can only mean one thing: That even flatter panels are on their way to your local Best-Buy-Circuit-City-Fry's within the next five years. 





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