So forget the LCD and DLP Televisions. Now we have something else to look forward too.
For the past couple of years electronics companies researching OLED, or Organic Light Emitting Diode, displays have been making technology promises that are almost as bright as the displays themselves, but commercial products have been lacking
The first commercial OLED began shipping in March. However, both it and the latest batch of prototypes suggest that the power-reduction promises made about the technology may have been optimistic, at least for the first generation of products.
Differences on Display
OLEDs are a fundamentally different technology to LCDs and They are made by sandwiching a layer of organic material between two electric connectors. When a charge is applied to one connector it flows through the organic material, causing it to glow.
This means that, unlike an LCD, no backlight is needed and so the entire display panel can be made thinner, lighter, and will require less power than an equivalent LCD. At least, that's what was promised. Current prototypes, on display Wednesday in Tokyo at the Electronic Display Expo, consume around the same power as an LCD and in some cases more saving negligible
A prototype 2.1-inch panel from Seiko Epson consumes around 150 mW (milli Watts) when displaying a moving image. A thin film transistor LCD of a similar size consumes just over 150 mW with its backlight switched on, making the OLED power.
The technology is still young," said Tsutomu Takenouchi of Seiko Epson's OLED technology division. "We hope to improve the power saving with future generations."
Other New Concepts.
This looks a little too crazy to be true. Apparently these super-slim speakers’s surface is made out of a thin film type of material similar to that of TFT-like displays, as in, you know, LCD TVs. I don’t think this is a REAL display (as in it lets you watch moving pictures on it), but it certainly looks that way. Regardless, these MP-C100 Mirae Plasma speakers definitely have style written all over them. Only available in Korea as far as I know.
Imagine your new TV looking like this.
