South Korean manufacturers Samsung and LG announces in Consumer Electronics Show they comes with the new OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) televisions and with new technology in Television.
Samsung’s new televisions feature a 55-inch screen, an absurd 0.6-inch width, and a richness of color never before seen in commercial displays. OLED screens need only a single light-emitting layer, as opposed to the several that LCD TVs require. As a result, OLED TVs can be extremely thin. LG Electronics introduced an OLED TV on Monday that is 4 millimeters —that’s one-sixth of an inch— thick. The picture quality is stunning, too, because OLED TVs can present highly saturated colors and a nearly perfect black.
At a CES press event Monday morning, LG Electronics introduced what it called “the world’s thinnest, largest and lightest” OLED TV: a 55-inch model with a remarkable picture.
There was an audible gasp in the room when it was unveiled, and a throng of photographers crowded around the set afterward like paparazzi around a starlet.
Not to be outdone, Samsung unveiled its own 55-inch OLED TV that afternoon, calling it “the ultimate in picture quality.”
Both LG and Samsung say their OLED sets will hit the market in 2012, although neither would talk about price. The TVs won’t be cheap; Eisner, the Retrevo analyst, expects them to sell initially for at least $8,000.
OLED “is beyond the reach of most consumers at this point,” he said. “But it looks gorgeous.”
To confuse matters further, Sony unveiled a 55-inch prototype TV that uses an eye-opening 6 million LEDs in place of pixels.
But these impressive-looking TVs won’t be mainstream products anytime soon.
