Samsung: 14in, 31in OLED TVs "Production-Ready"

Author	Hugo Jobling
Published	2nd Jun 2009

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Despite saying that mainstream OLED is years away Samsung has announced both a 14.1in and 31in OLED TV as "production-ready." The displays will be on show at Display Week 2009, and hopefully there will also be details of when that production will start!

Samsung says that the use of Full Metal Mask technology (a type of screen manufacturing process) its OLED TVs can be mass produced. The 31in OLED TV has a Full HD, 1,920 x 1,080 pixel resolution, a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and a better than 100 per cent NTSC colour gamut - for those to whom that is important. All that and a thickness of only 8.9mm!

The 14.1in display unsurprisingly has a lower, WXGA, resolution, but like Sony's XEL-1 it would still make an awesome bedroom or kitchen TV. And being cheaper to manufacture than a larger panel, it could help Samsung with refining its production techniques possible accelerating the development of larger, affordable displays.

Roll on production OLED TVs!

Samsung.

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Tim Sutton said on 2nd June 2009

@ John

Thanks for that, extremely clear :-) To a large degree my surprise was down to the fact that the 31" panel quotes 'only' 16m colours, suggestin... more

ilovethemonkeyhead said on 3rd June 2009

will this mean the end of banding artefacts?

Xiphias said on 3rd June 2009

@Tim: HP makes a 30-bit 1920x1200 screen that can be run off a normal graphics card so it's definitely possible to do, but I don't know how intensive the typical TV proce... more