LCD and Plasma is sooo 2000's

The coming of age of all technologies has to face the limelight sooner or later. But with the rate of growth in the tech industry, it seems to be getting faster and faster with every passing decade. Already we cant imagine a world we once lived in 10 years ago. And how quick we are to forget the way things once were only yesteryear.

Alas the time has come for LCD's and Plasma TVs. HD is still in the here and now, but its now how you get it that is changing. LCD has been around for a very long time, and in tech years, is old technology. Plasma is relatively new, but only a modification of an old technology. Now, as MP3's did to the CD, and CD's did to the Cassette tape, SONY has unveiled yet another revolution (following BluRay a couple years ago). Its called OLED, short for Organic Light Emitting Diode. Now, i know what your thinking, LED is even older than LCD technology. But this is Organic, and in the application of a TV, the difference is phenomenal. What they have done is, instead of our traditional flat panel TVs that have a back light display, which is what gives it light and color, this OLED does what any LED is supposed to do, displays light. But whats unique about it is that each pixel is a LED, therefore eliminating the need for a back light display.

This comes at the same time that Samsung and Sharp released there Ultra Slim formats. What they did is remove the TV tuner and make it separate, slimming it down a bit, and also re-invented the light bulb, or the back light in this case, making it even slimmer still. The end product is less than half the thickness of the original or standard flat screen we know of today.

But SONY has taken it one step further. They decided, why use a back light at all? And so, just as a new technology, or rather, a redesign of a modern technology is released, its instantly made extinct. OLED TVs are so thin, you could consider it a poster on the wall. Let me give you a comparison. Today's modern TV set is about 10 centimeters thick, or about 4 inches, the newly redesigned TVs would bring that down to about 3.5 centimeters, or 1.3 inches at their thickest point. Quite the improvement, not to mention the 120hz, up from 60, and the 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, up from about 5,000:1 for a good set. But Sony's OLED TV is a mere 3mm thin or 0.1181 inches, with over 1 million to 1 contrast ratio, and 10 bit color (up from 8) delivering 64 times the color richness of our standard TVs. LED's are also faster at displaying light, so no blurs or tracers when watching fast, action packed movies. Also it uses 40% less power (can you say green TV?), and generates allot less heat then its predecessors.

This is the NEW future of television, that is until Nano technology figures out how to paint your TV on your wall (not joking). The only model available to the market as of yet is the 11'' XEL-1, and will cost you $2,499 (plus tax and shipping). That price is just for the novelty of having the only one of its kind, and will surely lower as time goes on, to prices we can relate to nowadays, not to mention the size will increase as well. I would love to have one of these babies, but its gonna be a while till i fork out more money for another TV, kinda like the new iPod's every 6 months. But know this, OLED is the future industry standard, more companies will lease this technology, and as time goes by, it will be a staple in households around the world (again, until Nano Technology can paint your TV on the wall).

Source: http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&productId=8198552921665327724