Sony unveils 0.3mm thick OLED display

At D6 today Howard Stringer showed off a brand new "thinner than a credit card" 0.3mm thick OLED panel that Sony is working on. They're planning on a 27-inch version of the screen in the short term for the ultra-rich, but the obvious hope is to fight LCD for dominance in the home in the coming years. This could very well be that 11-inch 960 x 540 display we saw last month, but specs are slim at the moment. More shots after the break.

[Image courtesy of All Things Digital]

[DrXym Posted May 28th 2008 2:11PM]

This is very awesome tech but I will be more impressed when we see it in production at reasonable prices.

[The Fuzz 53 Posted May 28th 2008 2:49PM]

I've learned my lesson from buying sexy, thin products after the debacle that was the RAZR. Nothing but fatties from now on.

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2008 3:39PM]

I love my fatties while in bed!

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2008 3:59PM]

"specs are slim"... Nice.

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2008 4:03PM]

I've no doubt that this type technology exists. It's also very impressive but OLED is very new and it's still several years away from proving itself in reliability. The early tests have already shown a couple problems with it's sustainability and performance in the long term.

Nice nonetheless though.

Also, if Sony treats this as they did Blu-Ray, we're even farther out than several years (price wise).

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2008 8:06PM]

More things from Sony people don't need like Blow Ray. WTF do we need paper thing displays for?! So they can charge 10 times the price again??!

There are better technologies out there and I hope they croak with this too.. Useless garbage.

[glennS Posted May 29th 2008 11:33AM]

Just because you can keep making it thinner, doesn't mean you should. I mean, it is impressive technology that they have a screen only .3 mm think and all, but if it is so fragile that it needs to be displayed inside of an acrylic box, then why bother. I wish that they would stop trying to impress us with how THIN the displays are, and start trying to impress us with the QUALITY OF THE IMAGE. That is much more important to me than if my TV sticks out 4 inches from the wall like my current plasma, or 1 inch from the wall. As if I am going to find a better use for that extra 3 inches of space.

[(Unverified) Posted May 29th 2008 2:52PM]

nice. now make a 52" ws version and sell it for $2500