New Sony TV in time for Christmas
01 Oct 2007 13:23
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening… oh alright, we know it's a little bit early to start hanging out the decorations and far too early to be belting out carols, but we can't help but turn our thoughts to Christmas when it appears that an awful lot of fab new products are going to be ready for the festive period.Take Sony, for instance. The tip-top electronics firm has revealed that it will be launching a brand new type of flat-panel television in Japan this December, and it could well be a rival for liquid crystal displays.
The organic light-emitting diode (Oled) television is the world's first and the 11-inch model will be released on December 11th. Priced at JPY200,000 (£847) it is just three millimetres thick.
Oled technology relies on the ability of particular organic chemicals to emit their own light when an electric current is applied to them. Screens for Oled televisions do not need a backlight and as such they can be ultra-thin but still produce good quality images - and with a lower energy cost!
Katsumi Ihara, the Japanese firm's executive deputy president, commented: "I don't think Oled TVs will replace LCD TVs overnight. But I do believe this is a type of technology with very high potential, something that will come after LCD TVs."
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