Hi there, dear readers. This is Tobias and I’m 24 and I work for a TV store. This is my first meeting with all of you, so let’s talk of something about me first. I’m engaged to Rachel, and according to me, she is the most beautiful woman on earth. We’re planning to get married by the end of this year. And, I like cricket, am a right-hand batsman myself and feel that Sachin Tendulkar is the best batsman ever, other than Don Bradman. I like a bit of chocolate in everything and would die to eat my mom’s Fig pudding. What else? Well, I can’t think of anything else to say about myself – I’ll keep you communicated if something comes up. So, we’ll start off? Okay, I thought I’ll begin with OLED technology, since I expect one day, they will rule the world of televisions.
OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diodes. OLED is nothing but a Light Emitting Diode(LED) whose light emissive layer has a layer of organic compounds deposited over it. These compounds are deposited in a matrix format and the result – a matrix of pixels that is capable of emitting different coloured lights. Am I getting too technical? Okay, are you wondering of what use is this technology to televisions? OLEDs are used in television screens, and such displays have several advantages over LCDs. And what are they? Well, firstly OLED displays require no backlights – the result of which they can be as this as a pound coin! They are flexible, require way less power, and promise brighter, better picture.
According to me, the strength of OLED TVs is their thinness. Who wouldn’t like a super-thin, flexible TV? The low power consumption is yet another advantage. Sony’s XEL-1 is the first OLED television to be commercially available, and the screen size of this TV is 11-inches. So, at present there aren’t many large screen OLED TVs though Samsung has announced full HD 40 and 31 inch OLED televisions just 8.9mm thick, which once launched will probably be the largest OLED TVs in the world. LG has also announced that a 15 inch OLED TV will be launched in December this year. LG boasts a display resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels, which is higher when compared to XEL-1’s 960 x 540.
Well, we only have to wait and see when it happens. As of now, all we have is Sony’s 11” model which has a high price tag to go with it. Talking about cost, OLED TVs cost a bomb, which is probably a huge disadvantage. Another disadvantage of OLED displays is their lifetime. Typically, blue OLEDs have a lifetime of approximately 14,000 hours and hence, these displays have lower lifetimes when compared to LCD and LED. But ways to double the lifetimes of OLED displays have been discovered, and I feel that innovative breakthroughs to go over this disadvantage are sure to come up.
Glitches are unavoidable, even in the construction of a garden bench, so imagine, when a new technology is introduced, bugs will be many but as years go by, things will become smoother – the creases well ironed and smoothened. So in the passage of time, I do expect that OLED televisions will gather strength, with snitches like cost and lifespan overcome. Who knows, may be many years from now, televisions in each nook and cranny of the world will be OLED! Well, that’s it for now, I guess. I do have lots more to tell, but you see, it’s time for lunch and I ought to grab a bite! Good day, folks!
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There are more companies working on OLEDs: Panasonic, CMEL, Toshiba… hopefully within a few years we’ll see such TVs available.
Ron