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Originally Posted by HMishkoff
I noticed that Sony is about to start selling a TV with a 5mm-thick 11" 1024×600 OLED screen. (They also demo'd a 27" 1920×1080 HD model, but I don't think they're planning to sell it yet.)
If OLED technology is already capable of displaying full-color full-motion video (which I assume it is, if Sony is using it for a TV screen), then why isn't OLED being used in e-books?
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Have you looked at the price for the 11" Sony OLED TV? Quote from a recent article: "Sony, the world's second-largest maker of LCD TVs (behind Samsung), expects the 11-inch OLED TV to sell for $1,700--almost as high as retail prices of some of its own 40-inch LCD models." Sony is selling a very limited supply of these and reportedly will lose money at $1700. I don't think a $1700 11" Reader would sell very well.
OLED - which covers a range of variations in the technology - does have potential down the road for use in readers or some combination of a reader / large PDA. But OLED still has to improve lifespan and manufacturing yield & get costs down. OLED is supposedly more energy efficient than same size LCD displays and thinner, but will require a lot more power than electronic paper displays. Any OLED experts want to weigh in on when we might see OLED in affordable tablet PCs or PDAs?