Source: USAToday.com
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.