Sony XEL-1 OLED TV may hit US this year, sez Glasgow

We're sure you've been drooling over Sony's sexy little 11-inch XEL-1 OLED TV since the official launch last month, and though we thought that only the Japanese would be lucky enough to snap one up this year, Sony Electronics President Stan Glasgow has just revealed that US customers may actually have a shot at the 3-millimeter thick waif by holiday time. At a roundtable discussion this morning at the Sony Club in New York, Glasgow told the assembled journalists that "OLED could come [here] before the end of the year," but that the decision would be based significantly on foreign demand and panel supply -- an area where yields are still reportedly quite low. In other words, while you shouldn't go squirreling your ~$1,800 away just yet, you should start praying to the gods of consumer electronics that the XEL-1 hits Tokyo with little more than a whisper.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 1st 2007 12:51PM]

Two words:
Eleven... Inches

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 1st 2007 1:17PM]

Two words:
First... Gen

You cant expect them to have sets to compete with LCS/Plasma just yet, hell most Plasma/Lcd sets are still catching up with CRT in many respects!

People seem to be too going too hard on this set, Sony are not holding a gun to anyones head forcing them to buy it. I would expect more from people reading a tech site like the main Engadget site than comments like this "Whats so great about oled again? My laptop LCD is that thin, bigger, and the whole laptop was only 1800." Wake up guys you were sold a dud with LCD, its was never that good!

[JDM Posted Nov 1st 2007 2:41PM]

Sure, it's 3mm. Pay no attention to that base. That's pretty thick right there.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 1st 2007 10:42PM]

That thick base is obviously a Blu-ray 4x burner.

But agreed, LCD are good for computer applications, but for home theater they are the absolute worst. Horrible film picture/color quality that falls way below everything else. Can't believe anyone would consider +42" LCD HDTVs.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2007 12:25PM]

At last someone else can see how poop LCD really is.............I was starting to think it was just me!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2007 6:58AM]

I guess if I was a dingleberry I might actually enjoy eleven inches. lol