Competing technologies

Funai developed a new efficient 'emissive' LCD display with 'paper characters quality'

oled — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:39:41 -0500

The Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute developed a new efficient type of LCD, that actually does not require any backlight. The display is very efficient - it uses 1% of the power of regular LCDs.

The new displays use a special dye that changes colors when current is applied. The display quality is 'on a par with printed characters on paper'

Via SlashGear

Mitsubishi: The World's First Laser-Based Television Is Now Available

oled — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:21:07 -0400

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc. today announced the beginning of the laser era and the immediate availability of the world's first, laser-powered television. The Mitsubishi LaserVue(TM) 65" model is now being sold for $6,999 at select specialty retailers nationwide. After months of anticipation, many consumers nationally have already purchased LaserVue and have had the rare opportunity to experience the amazing breadth and depth of color that laser television offers. LaserVue has been introduced as the most energy efficient large-format, high-definition television available on the market today. LaserVue not only delivers two times the color of many of today's HDTVs, but it also uses exponentially less power than LCD and plasma TVs.

Will OLEDs compete with LCD/PDP TVs?

oled — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:24:50 -0400

Our friend at the DisplayBlog, Jin, has written an interesting view on OLEDs. Basically he says that by the time OLEDs are available (around 2010, hopefully) LCD/PDP TVs might have better contrast, be just as thin and with the same color gamut - and obviously they will be cheaper when OLEDs first arrive. In fact he thinks that a 30" OLED will cost about as much as a 60" LCD - and he's probably right at that - I'm not sure however that everyone will want such huge TVs!

Sony is preparing to mass-produce FED TVs

oled — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:08:41 -0400

Field Emission Technologies (of which Sony owns 37%) plans to mass-produce FED TVs in 2009. FED (Field Emission Displays) offers better picture quality than LCDs, and require half the energy (as they do not required backlighting). At first the TVs will be 26" in size, and later on they plan to produce 60" TVs.

Kodak OLED Systems Information and Interview

oled — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:17:11 -0400

I recently had the chance to interview Mr. Corey Hewitt and Dr. James Buntaine from Kodak OLED Systems. Kodak is where OLEDs were first discovered, and they are still in the fore-front of the technology. This is going to be a long article - these guys have given me a lot of background info, even before answering my questions. But first let's introduce Corey and James:

Mitsubishi's LaserVue 65-inch and 75-inchers due Q3 2008

oled — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:14:40 -0400

Mitsubishi says that ther Laser-TVs are ready to hit the stores at Q3 2008. The "LaserVue" TVs will come in 65" and 73". Mitsubishi is not telling much about the technology, but they say taht the color gamut is twice the ones of 'traditional HDTVs'. The sets run at 120Hz, at 500 nits of brightness - pretty much like LCD/Plasma TV sets. The TVs are quite thick, though, at 10-inch.

E-Ink sees e-newspapers going commercial in 2009

oled — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:08:51 -0400

According to E-Ink's Executive, e-newspapers are set to "explode" in late 2009. E-Ink claims that some newspapers in Japan, America and Europe are all considering making the move to e-paper. They will begin trials at the end of 2008 (several thousands of terminals).

Sharp says OLED TVs won't be a threat for LCD 'for at least a decade'

oled — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:31:22 -0400

Sharp's Miyuki Nakayama : "Organic EL screens like that just aren't a threat to LCD and they won't be for at least another decade. The picture quality is superb, but the screens don't last long and they can't easily be made bigger."

CPT licenses ITRI OTFT technology for flexible display development

oled — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:06:54 -0400

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) reports that it got authorization from ITRI (Taiwan's Research Institute) to use their organic TFT (OTFT) tech. CPT will be developing active-matrix flexible displays.

Panasonic - OLED will replace LCD in the future

oled — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:36:39 -0400

Panasonic's visual products and display devices business senior vice president and director, Masaaki Fujita, said that OLEDs will replace LCDs in the future. Plasma will still get developed, but LCDs will surely be replaced by OLED. He says that Plasma has a better future than LCDs because of the self-illuminating nature (no need for backlight), and also because of its low manufacturing cost.