Samsung 31-inch OLED display to be revealed in CES 2008
As if the LCD alliance news of Hitachi, Canon & Matsushita wasn’t enough, now Samsung comes up with more dynamite news. It announced that it has a fully functioning 31-inch OLED display, larger than the 27-inch OLED that Sony has previously shown. OLED displays are an upcoming technology that has the following advantages over LCDs:
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Extremely thin. The Samsung display is only 4.3 mm thick, an order of magnitude less than current LCDs.
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Low power consumption. With roughly half the consumption of LCDs, OLEDs have a critical advantage in our efforts to limit energy consumption.
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Picture quality. Definition, colours, contrast, all are at pretty high quality.
Samsung’s display is going to be revealed at CES 2008 and will likely be the star of the company’s stand. Now that consumers have developed an insatiable appetite for large panel sizes, it is unlikely that anything smaller than 37 inches will be a success. And here is the catch, OLEDs are an upcoming display star technology, but are for the time being very difficult and expensive to manufacture. Whichever supplier comes up with reasonably priced models will have a serious head start. Samsung is the world’s largest LCD manufacturer so it is no wonder it is working on OLEDs really hard as it wants things to stay the same in future…
Link: Reuters
[...] by Dimitrios Matsoulis on January 11, 2008 We have written about the 31 inch Samsung OLED here. You can now see some photos from the show. Apart from the immensely attractive thickness and [...]
January 11th, 2008 at 11:48 am