I know, I only have a few people reading this blog. I know who you are and I know most of you don’t know about all the new techie stuff out there. I thought you might like to hear about the newest TV / Display technology out there called OLEDs. It stands for Organic Light Emitting Diodes.
So what are the benefits to OLEDs versus LCD screens? Well, organic LEDs emit their own light (think digital alarm clock), whereas regular LCD screens have to have a backlight (think IronMan wrist watch in the dark). The main complaint of LCD screens is that none of them have “true black” color when you are watching TV. There is always some light coming through from the back of the screen. OLEDs can completely turn themselves off and on so we can have true black color in a screen that is thinner than an LCD screen. This translates into something called contrast ratio. Contrast ratio was important to me when I went shopping for a new TV and we got a great one at 25,000:1, a really good contrast ratio for an LCD screen. OLED contrast ratios are around 1,000,000:1 (a slight 4,000% improvement over the LCD). OLEDs also don’t have to “cool down” and can reproduce fast action much better than LCDs can. It’s last benefit? They are rather skinny. I mean 3mm thin! For the metric challenged of us, including myself, a US Quarter is approximately 1 ¾ mm thick. So this TV is a little skinnier than 2 quarters stacked together. It doesn’t appear to be bendable, but that was the original idea of OLEDs. The 11” XEL-1 Sony OLED digital television can be yours for only $2,500 at the Sony Style store. That’s right folks, you too can own one for less than the price of a tank of gas (1 year from now).
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