Sumitomo set to produce 40-inch OLED panels in 2009

by Ryan Block posted May 11th 2008 at 4:37PM

Not that there was any doubt that OLED is on its way to larger sizes (hasn't it been since like 2005?), but Japanese firm Sumitomo Chemical announced its plans to produce 40-inch OLED panels for HDTVs some time in 2009, meaning Sumitomo-based TVs could hit the market in 2009 or 2010. Samsung's old-skool 40-inch OLED HDTV prototype shown above for scale.

[Via OLED-Info]

Filed under: OLED

Tags: oled tv, OledTv, sumimoto

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jP @ May 11th 2008 8:32PM

What is the advantage of an OLED display?

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erich.strasser @ May 12th 2008 8:33AM

All advantages of OLED-TV Panels at
http://www.oled-display.net/oled-television

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Achilles @ May 12th 2008 10:35AM

Can't wait to see the prices of these bad boys, especially the Full HD versions.

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Truth Teller @ May 12th 2008 11:56AM

It's the very short 'life-span' these devices are said to have that puts me off.

If they can fix that and stop degradation during the later life of the unit them I may well have a look when I next change TV
(but seeing as I've only changed mine in the last couple of months that's not going to be for a while).

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joe @ May 12th 2008 1:31PM

TT-
OLED tv's at this point do not have very short life spans. There was at one time an issue with blue phosphor life but that has been fixed.

They may not last as long as traditional crts where I have seen them last more than 20 years but they can go at least 10.

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DrXym @ May 12th 2008 11:57AM

I think OLED has a fantastic future but I question why anyone would fork out for one now when its reliability and longevity are open questions and the price is going to be somewhere in the stratosphere. Give it a few years and these things are going to be semi-affordable.

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joe @ May 12th 2008 1:32PM

It's because right now most people are used to seeing CRTs and no other commercial technology comes as close to CRT view quality as oled.

LCD's have gotten better but still aren't great. Plasma is very good but oled produces a better image. Since plasma is dying in the mass market OLED is the newest hope for a mass market display with good image quality.

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