Super-thin Sony XEL-1 OLED TV has super-big price.

[Eclecticos]

Source: USAToday.com (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2008-04-16-sony-digital-tv_N.htm?csp=34)

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It carries a geeky name and an extraordinarily steep price for a television with just an 11-inch screen.

But Sony's super-thin XEL-1 OLED Digital TV may well provide a glimpse of the future of television technology. Now commercially available for — yikes — $2,500, the set has a panel that is a remarkably thin 3 millimeters, just over one-tenth of an inch.

Even if you can afford it and no matter how thin or impressive the picture, the display is smaller than most laptop screens. For the same loot, you can choose a nice 50-inch flat-panel TV. Those are the sets that anchor home theaters, not one better suited for a desktop or upscale bathroom.

Still, practical considerations are beside the point to early adopters willing to spring for the TV Sony is marketing as the world's thinnest. The picture (whether watching movies or basketball) is generally terrific, though you'll have to sit close enough to appreciate it.

The OLED's other chief selling point is that seductive width: roughly the thickness of three credit cards.

[a.Bird]

Am I missing something? 3mm is certinaly an impressive panel width but with the arm and the base, it's even deeper than a mentioned 50" flat panel. What is so remarkable?

[Eclecticos]

I've often wondered this myself, and your right it could be the thickness of
one creditcard and it still take up almost as much space with the base.

I will be impressed when its like a pane of glass with a small base.
. .Like in allot of the newer sci-fi movies.

[TheGreatSatan]

OLED will come down like all its predecessors. Look at SSD prices....

[Quakken]

It's the next wave of technology. But there is no way I would pay 2500 for an impractical screen to be an "early adopter".

People who do that need to give more to charity. Or build a particle accelerator in their basement or something.

[J-Roc]

You forgot the spec's! It has a contrast ratio or 1million to 1. Where the common plasma has about 10,000:1 Because of its thinness, it has an unmatched viewing angle. And allthough it doesnt state the responce time, it is ultra fast. Another thing worth mentioning is that there is a 27" prototype that was also on display.

[Eclecticos]

A look inside the XEL-1 Display. Here (http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=243) <=-

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You forgot the spec's! It has a contrast ratio or 1million to 1. Where the common plasma has about 10,000:1 Because of its thinness, it has an unmatched viewing angle. And allthough it doesnt state the responce time, it is ultra fast. Another thing worth mentioning is that there is a 27" prototype that was also on display.

You are more than welcome to posts the specs. :D

[TheGreatSatan]

In 2 years they'll be common. Think of all the idiots that dropped $5000+ on plasma's only to have them clearanced for $800 2 years later