Samsung has stated that it does not believe Sony will be able to deliver on its promise to begin consumer sales of OLED screens this year. The Japanese brand has caused rivals to accelerate their plans for OLED screen development, after pledging that it will begin sales of eleven-inch OLED TV monitors before the end of the year. Organic Light Emitting Diode technology allows high resolution displays to be created from wafer-thin panels. As OLED screens are self-illuminating there is no need for an LCD-style backlight.
Yoo Eui-jin, vice president and chief of Samsung SDI’s OLED team, said I hope Sony will really do it, but considering circumstances, I doubt they will be able to start selling it this year. Maybe it would be possible for them to make a hundred or a thousand units as artifacts, but no more than that.
Our take - Sony actually said they will only make a handful of units, so hopefully they will begin to sell them in 2007. But even if it'll be delayed to 2008, it's still earlier than what everybody believed before Sony's announcement.
