Samsung expects affordable medium to large OLED displays in 2009 / 2010

Remember Samsung's 14- and 31-inch OLED panels on display at CES? With any luck, we'll see them hitting assembly lines sometime in the next two years. Woo-Jong Lee, VP Marketing at Samsung SDI says that medium and large size displays like monitors, laptops, and TVs will get the OLED treatment in 2009 and 2010. Nothing we haven't heard before. Still, given the group's recent distractions it's good to hear it again. Samsung is expected to achieve a production capacity of 3 million OLED panels in 2009 (double the current capacity) before hitting 6 million or so in 2010. That type of output should allow Samsung to start pushing down costs in '09 thanks to economies of scale -- good news for consumers. They'd better hurry though; we're this close to dropping $2,500 for Sony's 11-inch XEL-1. Silly, we know, but you'd understand if you've ever seen the display.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 9:40AM]

Wake me up next decade when they have a 70" model so I can take a look at it.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 12:12PM]

If OLED TVs must have some clunky slab at the base of them I'm not so interested in them anymore.

what it is anyway?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 3:26PM]

That base is probably so that the OLED TV can stand without being hung on a wall. If you wall mount it you will probably not need fat base.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 4:16PM]

powers supply and heat dissipation, it shows off how thin the panel can be in the long run.

i wish it had a cable so the cpu and power supply could be hidden. but ohio well, i'm not complaining,...yet.