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Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

austek — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:06:13 EDT

I'd go for a Samsung 81 series LCD with LED backlighting. With the huge contrast ratio and LCD blur reduction it has impressive performance stats. Selling really well through Amazon.

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austek

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

beau.ryan — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:38:06 EST

i was planning to get the 52" sony bravia xbr 1080p, but now i may have to wait...some one help me make a decision.

beau.ryan

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

merdinus — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:46:30 EST

Ever since seeing an 11" OLED in Sony Style I can't wait for OLED to get supersized.

As for Samsung v. Sony - I just think it's fun that both big competitors are going head-to-head here, hopefully we all win.

Finally - it's one thing for Sony to say "Of course blue is solved", but I have two questions:
1) How long will the blue last in those TVs?
2) What style/type of OLED is Sony using for the mass produced 11" TVs?

merdinus

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

Aglet — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:29:30 EST

Whoever brings this down on the market will have my money (although I'm rooting for Samsung).
Or maybe the laser TV-people.
Gawd these are tough descisions.

Aglet

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

macserv — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:01:09 EST

Making one or two prototypes at a large size is hardly a challenge anymore. Bringing an OLED display — at ANY size — to market is the real feat. As it stands, Samsung is still no competition for Sony in the OLED space.

macserv

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

robo — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:04:03 EST

I also saw the Sony OLED TV today. The contrast ratio was absolutely beautiful.

It can view 1080p (it scales it down because the pixels were like 900x500 or something like that) but you don't notice -- the picture was detailed and the colors were beautiful.

They should be showing up on Sony style stores now.

robo

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

ackthbbft — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:24:18 EST

I saw the 11" Sony OLED TV today. The rep there assured me that the blue-fade problem had been solved, otherwise they would not have "risked their brand reputation" on releasing it for sale.

As far as manufacturing costs, remember all the stories about how these could be produced using simple inkjet printer technology?

ackthbbft

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

strider_mt2k — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:16:48 EST

@StopRilla: Nice.

"I've placed the Consumer Electronics you will require within these...living crystals..."

"Hey...hey is that a camera? Hey I also placed some signs among the crystals asshole!"

"Sorry about that. Anyway..."

strider_mt2k

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

EQC — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:24:29 EST

@OLEDRevolution: The best thing about that 2005 OLED display? It's logical resolution of 1280x800. That gives you perfect 720p with just slight letterboxing.

Who the hell thought of making every 720p TV be 1366x768? That doesn't match any HD resolution on any axis, and forces even 720p video to be scaled for no useful reason.

EQC

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

OLEDRevolution — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:54:18 EST

Nothing new here. Samsung disclosed a 40" OLED display back in 2005. Who's going to get some balls and show a rollable display next year?

OLEDRevolution

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

Jitty — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:54:05 EST

Thinnest yet? The sony 27inch one is 3mm thin, 1.7mm thinner than the samsung :P

Jitty

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

killermonkey1 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:17:39 EST

i'm not sure but this may be the beginning of the end of lcd's

killermonkey1

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

radikaled — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:57:16 EST

Having the pleasure of speaking to some Samsung people, Samsung is committed to being the king of display technology period.

radikaled

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

slingblade — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:59:25 EST

I told you all in Sony's 11" and 27" CES posts on Giz a few days back that Samsung was gonna smoke the shit out of any OLED TV that Sony makes...

Samsung is the epitome of wanting to hold the record for thinness and cellphone lines prove it. Samsung doesn't just make things thin, they challenge their engineers and designers to make it incredible thin AND feature packed.

Samsung is already crushing sony in the CE market, so it's natural.

slingblade

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

Phineas J. Whoopie — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:37:28 EST

@drewdraws2:
"No photo" signs at CES... Who said Samsung doesn't have a sense of humor?

Phineas J. Whoopie

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

superbad — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:32:21 EST

Since these things are apparently really expensive to make at large sizes, and don't last terribly long, and are power efficient, why not put them on (very) high end laptops? It would be a nice differentiator considering how similar most laptops are now. After all, LCD displays were used almost exclusively on laptops for many years before anyone tried to make one into a TV.

superbad

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

BostonPimpDaddy — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:29:59 EST

Where are the hot korean models?

BostonPimpDaddy

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

StopRilla — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:27:38 EST

so, did they have to put the OLED's in their native environment of superman's fortress of solitude?

StopRilla

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

EQC — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:59:11 EST

@drewdraws2: I think it would be even funnier if they weren't so much saying "no pictures" as "no flash photography" -- it'd be hilarious (or sad) if the flash had some negative effect on the OLED's, and giz was slowly killing them.

EQC

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

vote Obama — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:58:55 EST

Its big and its thin.

.....next....

vote Obama

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

islandmonk — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:58:39 EST

The screen itself might be super thin, but the heat fins around it are total space hogs.

islandmonk

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

Zgradis — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:53:31 EST

@drewdraws2: Looks like they didn't stop them :D

On another note, I am extremely excited to see one of these (hopefully in the near future) in a local store.

Zgradis

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

buyj3llo — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:52:40 EST

What'll they think of next?

buyj3llo

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

donald252010 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:37:40 EST

if the 11 inch sony OLED costs $2500 then i wonder how much this one costs

donald252010

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

rainfever — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:29:49 EST

...it makes me think that Samsung, like Sony, is going to transition to OLED more quickly than anyone guessed. Plasma's not dead, but LCD might be.

yeay!

rainfever

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

reddingofish — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:29:23 EST

I WANT ONE NOW!!!!!!
LCD is fine as long as the image doesn't move, like on my watch.

reddingofish

Samsung's 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

Drew Draws nothing of merit — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:26:06 EST

I love all of the "no photo" signs in the photos Wilson. Classy.

Drew Draws nothing of merit