After
questioning Sony's ability to deliver their 11-inch OLED TV to market earlier this year, Samsung comes into CES with a pair of Sony trumping TVs. Their
31-inch and 14-inch OLEDs easily best Sony's
27-inch prototype and
11-inch production sets. Both of the Sammys feature the same amazing contrast which makes us swoon over OLEDs while offering 1080p video in a crazy thin panel. Samsung has no plans to take these production. Then again, with Sony's XEL-1 already out there, we all know how Samsung hates to be second-best.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Vanguard @ Jan 9th 2008 12:59PM
Samsung,
Beautiful!
Welcome to the club.
When do these bad boyz ship?
Mr. E @ Jan 9th 2008 2:20PM
"Samsung has no plans to take these production."
Then why show them??!! Grrr...
MidnightDT @ Jan 9th 2008 1:18PM
Samsung > Sony at everything
HDpurist @ Jan 15th 2008 12:55AM
OLED will be very very expensive. What's the point? PIONEER KURO plasma displays are
out now.
Larry @ Jan 9th 2008 1:56PM
Where are you now Sony fanboys?
ColonelSmith @ Jan 9th 2008 7:33PM
Voting you down
NewGuy @ Jan 9th 2008 2:06PM
I know the point of these OLEDs are better picture, contrast, and all that jazz, but the industrial designers seem to be hung up over the fact that they are so thin. What happens when these make it to the production line? Don't the guts have to be hidden behind the display like on any ordinary flat panel for wall-mounting? Who wants a flat panel with a brick underneath?
Joe Maki @ Jan 9th 2008 2:10PM
By the time these go into production wireless connection between the box and display will be standard (I hope).
NewGuy @ Jan 9th 2008 2:47PM
And wouldn't that just make Monster's day?
joe @ Jan 9th 2008 3:49PM
This is a direct response to the Sony 11" unit. Sony made it thin so Samsung showed a thin demo unit.
Your right, there is no point it's only for show.
EQC @ Jan 9th 2008 2:27PM
Did that get typed up correctly: both the 14" and the 31" offer full 1080p resolution?
Other folks can whine all they want about 1080p not mattering on small screens...but if it doesn't hurt anything (except price), and you get some extra pixel real-estate when you're sitting up close (ie: computer monitor usage), I like the idea.
DarkRogue @ Jan 9th 2008 3:17PM
From stories I've heard the customer service is better with Samsung but I'm pretty close in touch and friends with people of both companies so I haven't had any personal complaints ever.
It's been long true that in a lot of cases wired is better than wireless and each has a sacrifice. Given the choice for WiFi or Ethernet for your desktop computer assuming each were both quite easy to do wouldn't you pick wired?
TexRob @ Jan 9th 2008 3:48PM
Yep DarkRogue, I have wifi throughout the house, and use it extensively, but I'll be damned if my 360 or my iMac are going to be operating wirelessly. I am still not really happy with my choice to go to a bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Wireless is great, but you are always going to be giving up something, even if barely noticeable, it's there.
joe @ Jan 9th 2008 3:46PM
This is impressive but, I remember Kodak having a big oled display a few years ago. It not that hard to make a really big oled display. It's difficult to manufacture oled displays.
I'm pretty sure that Samsung had these laying around a lab somewhere. These go in the same bin as the dolby high def monitors. Proof of concept but no plans to sell you one. We've seen sed tv's also.
If they won't sell it it doesn't matter.
Josh @ Jan 9th 2008 4:20PM
Right here...and Sony's got them in retail stores, Samsung doesnt' even have a plan to get them out.
ColonelSmith @ Jan 9th 2008 7:35PM
Yeah, but at least we know they are toying with em, they wont be able to hold em back. I'd give em till the end of the year.
Hike15 @ Jan 9th 2008 8:10PM
Looks nice
Hopefully if/when they produce it they will figure that box problem out because if they dont the slimness is useless
sm @ Jan 9th 2008 9:17PM
I will be buying an OLED TV around 2010 with Quad HD, I am currently happy with my LCD right now.
Dan S @ Jan 9th 2008 10:12PM
Nice. The faster than can get OLED TVs out, and cheap, the happier I am.
HDpurist @ Jan 15th 2008 5:30PM
OLED is over rated and will be unbelievably expensive since Sony and Samsung have invested way too much on their LCD panels to just drop it for OLED.
Stick with the 10G Pioneer Kuro plasmas. Only 9mm thick, and an actual reality in 2009.