Rumors: OLED Technology For TV

What is an OLED TV?

An OLED TV screen is a TV which uses a new display high technology called OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes). OLED technology presents a brighter screen, more efficient, thinner and feature better refresh rates and contrast than either LCD or Plasma.

OLED Technology

OLEDs are perfectly designed by placing thin films of organic (carbon based) materials between two conductors. When electrical current is applied, a bright light is emitted. The OLED materials emit light and do not require a backlight (unlike LCDs). Each pixel is a small light-emitting diode, in fact. OLED TV panels offers several advantages over LCDs:

• Faster refresh rate, better contrast and better color reproduction
• Thickness: the LG's EL9500 for example is just 1.7mm thick. We've seen prototypes of OLED televisions that are merely 0.3mm thick!
• Better viewing angle - almost 180 degrees
• Greener: OLEDs draw less power, and contain no bad metals
• OLED panels can potentially be made flexible and/or transparent.

LG's 55" OLED TV

LG officially announced their first real OLED TV, the 55" 55EM9600, in December 2011. This is a Full-HD panel that features 100,000,000:1 contrast ratio and fast response time (1,000 times faster than LCD according to LG). The panel is only 4mm thick, and the whole TV weighs just 7.5Kg.

The TV is based on LG Display's Oxide-TFT white-OLED with color filters (RGBW, more on this below) OLED panel. We do not know the release date or price yet (although DisplaySearch estimates that it will cost $8,000 and be released in 3Q 2012). The 55EM9600 will be officially unveiled at CES 2012 and is expected to ship by July 2012.

Sony 11" XEL-1 OLED TV

Sony was the pioneer of OLED TV by launching Sony's XEL-1 back in December 2007. The XEL-1 was actually more of a technology prototype than a commercial set - it's a small TV (11"). This TV was expensive (around 2,500$) and was only produced in small quantities. It has great picture quality, colors and contrast.

 LG 15" EL9500

LG's first OLED TV was actually the 15" EL9500 15". Like Sony's XEL-1, this was more of a technology demonstration, as the price was very high for a 15" display (around $2600 in Korea and €1,999 in Europe). The EL9500 features 1366 x 768 resolution,a  contrast ratio of 100,000:1 and it's only 1.7mm thick.

True-OLED vs WOLED-CF

The basic OLED TV design (called a "True-OLED" TV) uses 3 color OLED sub-pixels (Red, Green and Blue) to create each 'pixel'. But some companies are using a different archicture, called WOLED-CF which uses four white OLED subpixels with color filters on top (RBG and W). This is also called a RGBW design.

OLED TV prototype

Kodak developed the WOLED-CF technology and it should make the OLED panel easier to make. However it will also be less efficient. LG Display's OLED TVs which will be released in 2012 will be based on this design.

OLED TV in 2012

These TVs are amazing, but the price will be high as high as their technology. They will only be produced in small quantities (tens of thousands of units per month).

Hopefully the market reaction to these new premium TVs will be good, and both Samsung and LG will start to mass produce these TVs - which will bring the cost down dramatically. This is expected to happen during 2013-2014. Other companies (such as Toshiba, Panasonic and Sony) are expected to start producing OLED TVs too in the coming years.

LG has officially announced a 55" OLED TV and it is expected to launch at around July 2012. Sony is currently focused on professional OLED monitors (such as the $30,000 25" BVM-E250), and has no plans to start producing consumer TVs.

Officially, Panasonic does not have plans yet, but it is reportedly building a pilot 8.5-Gen OLED plant for R&D purposes.

AU Optronics have also shown some OLED TV prototypes, the latest being a 32" Oxide-TFT panel.

While DuPont don’t want  to be left in this competition, they announced that a leading OLED maker has licensed their nozzle-printing technology in an effort to make cheaper, printable OLED TV panels.

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LG UNVEILS NEW SMART TV FEATURES FOR 2012

In this recent time, gadget is one of the need of our life. It makes the electronic producer always improve their innovation to create their sophisticated products. There are many things that are smart gadgets these days, as you also have Smart TVs – and the South Koreans are at the forefront of things in this department, although Japan is nipping on their heels as well. LG intends to usher in 2012 by unveiling new Smart TV features for next year that will focus on rich content as well as ease of use. Just make a beeline for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next month, and you will be able to check out just what LG has in store.
LG embeds within the new Cinema 3D Smart TV range for next year, LG intends to offer CINEMA 3D Smart TV owners with the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use home entertainment experience possible, and as the adage goes, “action is louder than words”, which is why there are more than 1,200 apps available (and growing, too). The new Magic Remote would also add more value to the entire Smart TV experience, in addition to a growing number of premium content services.
There are more than 1,200 Smart TV apps available with LG’s Smart TV ecosystem, letting you access more movies and TV programs than ever, in addition to accessing social networking services (SNS) on your LG Smart TVs, make donations to charities whenever there is a need, and also check out famous art collections without having to leave the comfort of your living room. As for LG’s 3D Zone, it also offers a bunch of expanding 3D movies and TV shows, and those who want to enjoy older 2D movies, can do so thanks to 3D conversion via LG’s enhanced 3D conversion engine. Using Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) technology, LG’s 3D glasses do not require any battery to run at all, are lightweight and easy on your pockets, making them perfect for viewing 3D content in large groups and comfortably for longer periods of time.

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Hulu!! What is it?

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 Are you looking for some inside information on Hulu? Here's an up-to-date report from experts who should know.

Sometimes the most important aspects of a subject are not immediately obvious. Keep reading to get the complete picture.

The stage is set for a showdown between television networks and cable/satellite TV services, thanks to the internet. It won’t happen overnight, but your monthly cable or satellite bill could eventually be replaced by a monthly bill from Hulu, an online service that streams TV shows on demand.

For $10 a month, viewers will reportedly have access to a wider selection of shows than the free, ad-supported version Hulu currently offers. The service would work on PCs and specialized devices such as the iPad, videogame consoles and set-top boxes. The company plans to test a version of this “Hulu Plus” subscription, an expected development, with select users as early as this month to find out whether they’ll will bite, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal and All Things Digital.

In order for consumers to pay for a video service like that, it will need to be reasonably comprehensive. So it’s no accident that the same week Hulu’s subscription plans came to light, a Bloomberg report surfaced that the company is talking with CBS, Viacom and Time Warner’s television studio divisions to add their shows. That would be on top of a line-up that already includes “Fox, NBC Universal, ABC, ABC Family, Biography, Lionsgate, Endemol, MGM, MTV Networks, National Geographic, Digital Rights Group, Paramount, PBS, Sony Pictures Television, Warner Bros. and more,” including Wired.com.

For ten bucks, one wouldn’t expect the level of programming cable and satellite offer for larger monthly bills. But if paid Hulu works, the networks will have proof that the internet can circumvent cable and satellite companies and they could easily add more expensive content tiers down the road.

If the networks prove they can charge consumers directly, and consumers are happy to supply their own “cable boxes” in the form of game consoles, television-connected computers, set-top boxes, tablets and so on, it’s difficult to see why networks would tolerate cable and satellite providers grabbing a slice of profits, just for sending the shows through one pipe rather than the other.

Cable and satellite are classic middlemen. When the internet meets the middleman, the middleman tends to disappear — or at least be replaced by a thinner middleman. We’ve seen it with record stores, classified ad-dependent newspapers, video-rental stores, bookstores and any other business that delivers something that the internet can deliver more efficiently.

The “thinner middleman” as far as IPTV is concerned could be ISPs, which already charge more for faster data plans capable of delivering better-looking video. But as multipurpose providers, they’ll never command as large a slice of the pie as cable/satellite companies did with their television-only pipes.

Television networks hold the trump cards, because they own the content that will be distributed — however the market decides to distribute it. Still, cable providers reportedly hope to replace themselves, in a sense, by providing competing services for delivering television over the net. After all, most of them also provide ISP services, and don’t want to lose a source of revenue.

But that ship may have sailed. The networks (with Providence Equity Partners) already own the Hulu internet distribution system, which is accessible from any ISP, and expect it to earn $200 million this year even before the subscription has launched.

Now that the networks are set to start charging for a more comprehensive version of Hulu, cable and satellite companies should be even more nervous about how television shows will be delivered in the coming years than they were already.