Thursday 22 October 2009

OLED TVs are the Future

OLED TVs are organic light emitting diode televisions and they are the future of television. OLED TV technology has so many advantages but the one that stands out is – backlighting.

The lighting source is crucial to the operation of LCD TVs, without light LCDs cannot display anything. However the fluorescent lighting in LCD TVs is the most common point of failure. When it fails, the fluorescent lights need replacing and in most cases this is not cost effective and so it renders the TV defunct.

This is where OLED TVs have the potential to revolutionize the TV world, because they have no back/sidelights they cannot fail and the power consumption is drastically reduced.

Recently the introduction of LEDs as a light source in TVs has changed the profile of TVs allowing them to be made a lot slimmer. However because OLED require no lighting, they can be made a few millimetres thin. OLED TVs also have better picture quality then other types of sets. Their contrast levels can produce true blacks, and have lighting fast refresh rates.

The problem with OLED TVs relates to production costs and reliability. There are prototype models available with smaller production models in the pipeline. But as soon as TV manufacturers like Samsung and Sony have perfected this technology and production techniques then we will see the explosion of OLEDs into our homes.

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