Comments for: Sony preps OLED TV for December launch

#2. Posted at 02:52 PM on Oct 1st 2007

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ssidbroadcast

A MILLION TO ONE?!?!

#2, HOLY. CRAP. D:< : A_Pickle (#8) «

#2, If it's a true on/off design like CRT, then it's certainly p... : Vrock (#14) «

#14, well, yeah. the panel emits light, so all you have to do ... : willyolio (#21) «

#21, What's the contrast ratio of life itself? : ssidbroadcast (#22) «

#22, infinite. : moose17145 (#23) «

#23, True, but what is the contrast ratio that the hu... : BobbinThreadbare (#24) «

#24, The human eye is the fastest focusing lens, d... : titan (#26) «

#26, the actual image on the eye is horrible, t... : willyolio (#37) «

#37, That's really a failing of the brain, n... : BobbinThreadbare (#38) «

#30. Posted at 09:00 AM on Oct 2nd 2007, Edited at 09:03 AM on Oct 2nd 2007

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evermore

Uh. Couldn't they at least have made it 480 vertical lines? With 450, no matter WHAT you input into it you're going to have to get scaling done. Do any display drivers even support 450 vertical? Even the crappy little handheld PC things do at least 640x480 usually.

Granted even with 480 vertical, the 960 width is going to be more than 16x9 ratio but at least you could get the full vertical displayed and just have some small black bars on the right sides if you didn't stretch it. I mean this is meant as a TV, and it doesn't have a resolution that fits ANY standard formats. Even if they're non-square pixels, that just means the pixels would be larger in the vertical, whereas programming expects TV pixels to be larger in the horizontal if anything.

#30, Scaling video is easy. Difficulties in the past were mainly ... : snowdog (#31) «

#31, Haha, yet another geek with no idea that there is a whole... : Anomymous Gerbil (#36) «

#3. Posted at 03:11 PM on Oct 1st 2007

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snowdog

Still a couple of years away for general usage, but this is a start.

Though who will pay $1700 for an 11" TV eludes me. I thank them in advance because their crazy bleeding edge purchases mean more affordable OLEDs in the future.

#3, Probably because the picture is stunning, it will draw in pe... : liquidsquid (#5) «

#5, I've lived in Japan. These sets will be too small even fo... : nexxcat (#6) «

#6, Heh...students with a lot of spare cash...but not a lo... : d2brothe (#7) «

#7, Clearly, you've not met Japanese students who live ... : nexxcat (#18) «

#18, students, $10-15 an hour, and they can afford a ... : willyolio (#20) «

#20, $10-15/hr with no rent, car payments, gas pay... : SPOOFE (#25) «

#25, Hello, tuition...besides, even if I did ha... : d2brothe (#29) «

#29, I fail to understand how the suggestion... : SPOOFE (#32) «

#29, d2brothe wrote, "a 46 inch television t... : titan (#33) «

#33, ...to urinate on. : indeego (#34) «

#33, You have a thin behind. : Vrock (#35) «

#6, What is that in square meters? Or in US quarters lined... : sigher (#11) «

#11, XD - nicely done! : eitje (#27) «

#3, They should design it so that you can fit it in a car! then ... : sigher (#9) «

#28. Posted at 08:15 AM on Oct 2nd 2007

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liquidsquid

I also cannot wait to see these displays on a laptop. A good chunk of weight and power is the back-light. Get them a bit larger, and your laptop may loose another 1/2 inch of thickness and a pound.

#1. Posted at 02:34 PM on Oct 1st 2007

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indeego

So what about the Blue OLED issue? According to wikipedia the Blue OLED's can last 3+ years... still doesn't seem long enough...

#1, Probably using "white" with a blue filter, or some such tric... : liquidsquid (#4) «

#1, I hear about improvements to white/blue LED at least once ev... : sigher (#10) «

#10, I don't know, but I would expect my display tech to last ... : indeego (#12) «

#12, You plan on running the thing 24/7 365 a year? I : Vrock (#16) «

#12, That's ~10 years at 8 hours a day. The average America... : UberGerbil (#17) «

#12, So don't buy one, I would be happy with 30 000 hours, ... : snowdog (#19) «

#10, Let's see, I have a laserdisc player that's going on 13 y... : Vrock (#15) «

#13. Posted at 05:43 PM on Oct 1st 2007

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Heiwashin

Yea beautiful contrats and all, if you were buying lets say, a voodoo pc laptop, such an lcd wouldn't be a surprise at all. Especially when they get a little bit bigger and they'd end up on alienware high end gaming laptops as well, for some reason lots of people with nothing better to do with their money buy these things.