Random findage on a Saturday morning.
I’m not particularly adept technical-wise, but I read a lot … and one of my areas of interest and speculation for the last two or three years has been my relatively uninformed belief that one day we will see television screens made out of somewhat thick clear plastic that you can roll up like a yoga mat and carry with you (probably with a wireless connection in its inner works).
So, here’s a piece from the NY Times today swooning and drooling about the Sony X-11 OLED television screen.
I recently saw one of these in the Sony Store showroom near where I live, and the article is correct. Yes, it is astonishing, astounding, amazing, incredible
Anyway … what caught my attention in this article is the fact that roll-up versions are in the Sony labs.
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you’re a TV-technology geek and you’re getting a distinct feeling of déjà vu, congratulations. All of this does sound exactly like the descriptions of S.E.D. television prototypes demonstrated years ago by Toshiba and Canon. Unfortunately, that equally impressive picture technology never made it out of the lab.)
To make this thing even more drool-worthy, the XEL-1’s screen is only three millimeters thick — shirt-cardboard thick. If they could build a laptop with a screen this thin, it would make the MacBook Air look like a suitcase.
The reason: in an O.L.E.D. screen, each pixel generates its own light; there’s no need for bulky backlights, as there are in, for example, L.C.D. sets.
(In the labs, they have O.L.E.D. screens so thin you can roll them up.)
Finally, O.L.E.D. uses less electricity than either plasma or L.C.D.
So, if this thing is so amazing, why isn’t everyone stampeding to get one?
Because even though the XEL-1 is the biggest O.L.E.D. television you can buy today, it’s only an 11-inch screen. That’s not a typo; it’s smaller than your laptop screen.
Oh, and it costs $2,500.
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