OLED and Laser Displays

Re: OLED and Laser Displays

If these technologies are used in displays that follow imaging industry standards, we will be benefited. If manufacturers continue in their tradition of appealing to the uneducated consumer's preference for distorted pictures, we will be short-changed again.

Best regards and beautiful pictures,
G. Alan Brown, President
CinemaQuest, Inc.

"Advancing the art and science of electronic imaging"

Re: OLED and Laser Displays

There were a few displays of OLED screens I saw at CES, and I have to say I'm looking forward to the day a OLED TV's are available (and affordable). Samsung had the largest one I saw, at 31 inches, but they were not allowing anyone to take pictures. They were also not giving any type of a timeframe that an OLED TV might be produced, leaving me guessing the usual "3-5 years away" of most such new technology.

BTW, that "laser TV" video left a somewhat bad taste in my mouth. I suppose I might be expecting too much from a local TV "news" report, but come on, laser light sources do not "deliver the signal faster". Last I checked the speed of light was the same from a laser, a lamp, or a candle. And the need for a color-wheel has little to do with the light source either. Certainly lasers can be a much better light source for an RPTV compared to the lamps in wide use today, but it's not a fundamentally different technology from the consumer's POV. Especially since consumers seem to balk at buying anything that's not a "flat panel" display today (see Sony's exit from the RPTV business).
I am expecting laser light sources to start showing up in RPTV's (and HT projectors?) this year, though.

BTW, at CES Pioneer had a small theater showing off some new technology to that lowered plasma black level dramatically, apparently to gauge the public reaction (they asked everyone to fill out a short survey). I must say it was a very effective demonstration; I could not tell the edge of the screen from the background in the completed darkened room. Indeed you could not even tell there was a screen there at all until it started producing an image which slowly enlarged out of what appeared to be an empty void next to one of their current Kuro models. They definitely played it for surprise and drama, and it worked. Now if only I could afford a Kuro to begin with...

-- Dave

Re: OLED and Laser Displays

I seem to recall reading something about an OLED factory being built that should enable monitor or TV sized display production. I haven't located that info, but when searching around for it I did run across this: OLED history | OLED-Info

If a 14" display is $3K in 2008, I'm almost afraid to ask what a 42" display will be in 2010... Perhaps 2012 will be better.

If you absolutely need something OLED, then perhaps an OLED keyboard would do? Too bad I didn't hear of that beforehand, or I definitely would have stopped by that booth at CES just to see it in person.

-- Dave