HDTV Reviews

The OLED technology seems to be moving the the right direction faster and faster every month. The main factor limiting OLED HDTV production is their size limits, with the only available screens being very small.

Samsung has just changed this. Read more

We have been seeing OLED displays from both Sony with their 11-inch Sony XEL-1, and Samsung’s 14 and 32-inch offerings from this years CES, but no idea with regards to production dates on the medium to large sizes. Samsung’s VP Marketing are now saying that medium and large OLED displays for monitors, HDTVs and laptops should appear on the market in 2009 and 2010. Read more

Samsung have announced that they have developed a 31-inch ultra thing organic (OLED) screen. This is great news to hear, as they are pushing the technology further, which we will hopefully soon see in modern HDTVs. Read more

There is a new technology on the way that we should see available in HDTV and other screens, along with Laser HDTV, called OLED. OLED (Organic light-emitting diode) displays as a brand new technology with several clear advantages over current LCD and plasma displays. Firstly OLED displays are much more energy efficient (as much as 40% more efficient) than LCDs, also they are even thinner than LCD TVs as there is no backlight required. Read more

Canon and Toshiba and their joint venture SED Inc have been showing off their a 55-inch SED panel at the “FPD International 2006″ in Pacifico Yokohama convention center. It is a so-called “full HD” panel featuring 1920 x 1080p resolution as with the one showcased at the “CEATEC JAPAN 2006.”

The contrast ratio is reported to be 100000:1, while that of the model presented at the CEATEC JAPAN 2006 was 50000:1. “The performance improves day by day. Read more

The first SED HDTVs which have been displayed at the CEATEC 2006 show will be released in near the end of 2007 and should be ready for mass production in the first quarter of 08.
The first SED to be released should be the 1080p 55-inch model as shown here. The 55-inch SED will have a very impressive 50,000:1 contrast ration (much better than any current LCD or Plasma display) 450 nits of brightness, and a lightning fast response time of just 1ms.

Canon and Toshiba are joining forces and investing $200 billion into developing and producing a new flat screen technology called surface-conduction electron-emitter display, also known as SED which will be even slimmer than LCD and Plasma HDTVs.

SED TVs will of course be HDTV and should be ready for the public in early 2008. Many manufactures are entering the TV market as they expect this market to boom in the next few years as the trend to digital transition grows. Read more

SED, a technology developed by Canon and Toshiba is set to be the next big thing after Plasma and LCD. Developed jointly by Canon and Toshiba, SED stands for Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display. It is cheaper to produce than Plasma or LCD and delivers better picture quality.

SED technology works much like a traditional CRT except instead of one large electron gun firing at all the screen phosphors that light up to create the image you see, SED has thousands of tiny electron guns known as “emitters” for each phosphor sub-pixel. A sub-pixel is just one of the three colours (red, green, blue) that make up a pixel. So it takes three emitters to create one pixel on the screen and over 6 million SED emitters to produce a true high definition (HDTV) image. One prototype has even attained a contrast ratio of 100,000:1. Its brightness of 400cd/m2 is a tad on the low side for an LCD TV and nowhere close to a plasma screen output. Read more