30-inch OLED TV from Toshiba in 2009
Toshiba has announced plans to ship an organic electroluminescence (EL) display in 2009. The target size will be 30 inches, which beats most manufacturers' prototypes currently under development, like Sony's 27-inch OLED plans. Toshiba had previously planned 2015 as the launch window for OEL (more commonly known as OLED) sets, a launch timeframe which put them in that magical future land along with SED and FED displays. While Toshiba doesn't expect to compete directly against the behemoth of LCD at first, they believe the technology's superiority -- which includes lower manufacturing costs, and better viewing angles and contrast -- will be recognized as volume goes up. Your electroluminescent game of fl0w may never look better.
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Chris @ Apr 14th 2007 7:13PM
Just abondon lcd, and put oled in warp drive now. YA BABY!
ed w @ Apr 15th 2007 11:20PM
That is Atsutoshi Nishida talking future again.
Remember Toshiba was going to have SED in production this year. Now Canon has bought out all Toshiba's share and Canon is having second thoughts of even starting contruction on the 180 billion yen plant for SED production.
Toshiba's CEO Atsutoshi Nishida has been known for the sales pitch ever since he was sent to Toshiba America Information Systems years ago to try and restore the Notebook division after losing out to Compaq's price war. Ony thing that really saved him on that was Toshiba bringing out the T-3400 at the right time.
Nishida has always been pushing growth since he was appointed CE of Toshiba. The Yokkaichi semiconductor plant to fab NAND flash chips was due to him and now Samsung and Hynix have grabbed market share.
Analyst John Yang of Standard & Poor's says "Toshiba has spread itself too thin to succeed at everything. "It has to make a crucial decision: Is it a chip company or not? It's trying to be a chipmaker and at the same time spend on TVs, PCs, CT scanners, and elevators. If Toshiba wants to survive or remain a major player a decade from now, it has to make a decision."
gerardnll @ Apr 16th 2007 4:07PM
We want more inches! 32 and up! Which will be the price? more or less...
Bye!