Have LG stopped producing 15" OLED panels?

We heard that LG Display has decided to stop making 15" OLED panels, and the product has already reached End-Of-Life status. LG Display doesn't even have samples to ship to potential customers. LG Electronics is still selling the EL9500 OLED TV (at least they do so in the UK and in Germany). Marshall and TVLogic have professional monitors based on those panels, it'll be interesting to see whether they're able to ship those.


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This is very strange, as LG plans to start making 31" OLED panels in March 2011 - so why stop making 15" ones? Perhaps they cannot make both in the same production line and had to stop making the smaller ones before they gear up to produce 31" panels.

Posted: Sep 14,2010 by Ron Mertens