Sony Announce Super Thin OLED Screen

Start saving because Sony aims to be the first to introduce an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TV, in time for Christmas. Don’t get too excited, though, the XEL-1 is only 11-inches across, and initially only available in Japan, oh yes, and it’s going to cost the thick end of £600, but here’s the good bits. It’s only 3 millimetres thick, it is reputed to have a contrast ratio of 1,000,000 to 1 (many times better than most current LCD and plasmas), uses significantly less power than comparable LCDs, there’s no backlight to fail and none of the image ‘lag’ associated with low-end LCDs. There are some minus points too; scaling up the technology to a decent size is proving difficult, it is going to be expensive for quite some time, and the displays have a finite life. Read more