LG showcased a near-productioin prototype 15″ OLED TV at CES 2009. LG states that the 15″ OLED TV will go into production in the summer of 2009. The 15″ bests Sony’s XEL-1 11″ OLED TV by 4″, which is a lot considering that scaling OLED to larger sizes is a very difficult process. Engadget took [...]

What HiFi? Sound and Vision (WHFSV) spoke to HS Kim, Vice President in charge of Flat Panel Development at Samsung. Samsung invests the majority of its CAPEX toward LCD technology to build LCD TVs but also commercially produces PDP (Plasma Display Panel) TVs, DLP (Digital Light Processing) TVs. Of course, Samsung conducts R&D in OLED [...]

Chi Mei EL (CMEL) is showing off a 25″ OLED TV prototype with a pixel format of 1366 x 768 at the FPD International 2008 show in Japan. The CMEL 25″ OLED TV is just 1mm thick, sports a typical brightness of 350 cd/m2 and a peak of 1200 cd/m2. That’s an impressive reduction in [...]

Samsung SDI showcased a 40″ OLED TV with a pixel format of 1920 x 1080 at the FPD International 2008 show. According to OLED-Info, Samsung had already showed a 40″ OLED TV prototype back in 2005 however that unit didn’t have Full HD capability and having limited to just 1280 x 800. The new 40″ [...]

Sony’s XEL-1 is the only OLED TV that is commercially available. But at just 11″ and with a very expensive price tag of $2500, the XEL-1 OLED TVs haven’t been flying off the shelves. Well, Sam’s Club has the right idea. Slash the price, to $1748.51 in this case, and let’s see what happens! My [...]

Sony is aggressively researching field emission displays (FED) according to Nikkei. Why is Sony going after FED rather than OLED? There are some tough challenges to scale OLED to large sizes. Currently the largest OLED device that is commercially available is Sony’s XEL-1 OLED TV that has a 11″ display. That’s very small. Sony has [...]

Panasonic, the major consumer electronics brand of Matsushita, is planning to mass produce 37″ OLED TVs within the next three years. If Panasonic is successful, the 37″ OLED TV would be the largest OLED TV in production, by a big margin. Sony introduced its OLED TV, the XEL-1, late last year but it is a [...]

This seems to be big news. I don’t know why. Maybe we’re just sick and tired of thick electronics. Maybe we just want to see how thin things can get. Who knows. But the word out is that Howard Stringer, Sony’s CEO, will be unveiling a new OLED display that’s just 0.3mm thick at the [...]

On May 7, 2008, DuPont and Dainippon Screen Manufacturing announced their intention to form a strategic alliance to develop integrated manufacturing equipment for printed organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays. The companies also have signed an agreement to bring together materials, technology and equipment to mass produce OLED displays that feature enhanced performance, lower cost [...]

On March 14, Eastman Kodak Company announced an intellectual property cross-licensing agreement with LG Display (LGD). The royalty bearing license enables LGD to use Kodak technology that improves yields for active matrix OLEDs (AMOLEDs). The agreement also enables LGD to purchase Kodak’s OLED materials for use in manufacturing displays.

According to Andrew Sculley, General Manager and [...]