LG's 15-inch OLED TV on sale in Korea this November, overseas in 2010
By Ross Miller 
posted August 30th 2009 3:57PM
posted August 30th 2009 3:57PM
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posted August 30th 2009 3:57PM
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Finally some competition to bring prices down....
I'm giving this 5 years and it'll be prime to adopt OLED.
In one year the Pixel Qi screens will be everywhere.
5 years in the tech field is an eternity.
How can you call 1 actual and 1 old model "competition"? More like, oligopoly. And it won't bring the prices down, it will be like $3,500 because its 15 inches, not 11. Ok, maybe $2,999 because Its not a Sony.
For bringing the prices down we will need at least 3 companies making OLED screens independently and no less than 10 models on the market, with more to come. Currently its 1 up-to-date model and few prototypes, so don't expect anything other than ridiculous.
But I still want to mod that screen into my laptop...
"LG also plans to show off a 40-inch OLED in the "not too distant future," but don't expect to be seeing that hit retail shelves for a good long time to come."
Yeah, you'd have to sell of you're whole family for that...
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Thanks, grammar nazi.
he corrected your spelling....
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"he corrected your spelling...."
I noticed. You really think I can't write?
@thomas: he corrected his use of "you're" vs "your" ... that is grammar.
When the price will be known it will be a -->*cough* rip off *cough. With the price of LCD's these days, I rather get a SAMSUNG 55" 4ms 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV
well I guess I am different I would rather take a 15inch 1080p OLED screen over any lcd or plasma of any size! I mean if you are like me and sit like 3 inches from the monitor anyway what does size matter? I only care about resolution and quality.
perfect blacks > LCD crap
HA 2500 for a 15" screen, I applaud and encourage you early adopters. Please make it cheaper for the rest of us.
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What is the point in it being so thin when it has that big box on the back? It won't make any differance unless they can make them that thin without any extra parts, for wall mounting.
The large wall mountable ones can spread the components of the box over a larger surface area, so there will probably be a relatively thin box in the middle of it and then it will have a thin display around the edges to hide it.
Of course, OLED TVs arent about being thin, it is about the picture quality.
Well, you have to put ports for input somewhere...
They would be able to put the components and inputs in a separate box that could sit near your other gear, with one cable going to the TV.
@Irfan
Or potentially wireless a HDMI setup
So since the sucker died they get the greatest gadgets first?! NO FAIR!
What's up with making stuff just to make it? What good is an 11" or even 15" screen outside of a computer monitor? The only place this would be useful as a television is the kitchen. I'm not paying $2k+ for a kitchen television.
Just make the 42" screens already, price em at a brazillion dollars so the early adopters can get started bringing down the price. I'd like to buy one of these in my lifetime.
get a 50In+ for under 10,000 and iam sold would prefer bigger then 60 but oh well cant wait.
Deja Vu...
Awesome! I think this OLED TV will iterate plug-and-play partnerships and orchestrate best-of-breed niches. What LG needs to do is evolve robust supply-chains in USA while transitioning 24/7 relationships and this will sell like hot cakes. What LG has proved here is that they have the capability to benchmark bleeding-edge interfaces. They have been incubating compelling applications for years now and they deserve their due credit.
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breast of breed
Glad you were able o shed some light on hat ZoZo
'To shed some light on that' I meant to say, my keyboard was on my lap and not playing along, to stay in the theme.
Top notch article, thanks!
according to korean news site, this tv is splash and moisture proof for bath room installation. how clever.
in other words..
Fap away..
I remember reading somewhere oled/amoled panels have rather short operating life time.
before a 50% decay of luminance (pretty much the useless point) they have a minimum of 7500 hours (100% on, all the time at 80cd/m2 luminance)
but your probally going to get more like 25000 hours (30% on, 80cd/m2 luminance)
lifetime and luminance also go almost 1:1 if you run the things at 45cd/m2 you get double the life
so you get about 3-5 years of normal use out of these things. Compared to a CRT or a traditional LCD/Plasma that lasts about 60,000-70,000 hours...its almost 1/3 less lifetime.
errr..1/3 THE lifetime
If its 250 to 500 I might buy it, it looks gorgeous
Nice thing!definitely wanna buy sony or lg to try it out;)
If I were them I'd remove the bevel so large screen fans will buy 4.
LG Display are announced more technical details about the world largest OLED monitor.
The 15 inch OLED Panel which debuts in Berlin at the IFA-2009 event does have a 1366x768 Pixel resolution. The contrast ratio is about 100.000:1 and the panel himself is only 1.7 mm thin. LG Display is also announcing an official OLED roadmap on the website.
http://www.oled-display.net/technical-details-about-the-15-inch-oled-monitor-from-lg-display
Another stunning and extraordinary from LG. Please check out http://www.oled-display.net/ there are more technical details about it.
I have serious reactions to LCD monitors so I'm wondering if a OLED will have the same
havoc on my nervous system. Not sure if it's the brightness is the problem...
if there is a 17-19" OLED I'll be the first to try it.
I don't understand what's the point of having a really thin OLED screen if these companies are going to put a big ass stand or box behind them!! People - we want thin TV in which we can hang on our walls - stop putting these big stand on them!! Wake up!!