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Organic Light-Emitting Diode. A next-generation display technology that consists of small dots of organic polymer that emit light when charged with electricity. OLED displays are thinner, lighter, brighter, cheaper to manufacture and consume less power than the current LCD displays.

So there are 3-4 main companys which want to roll out OLED-TV in the near future. Sony, Samsung-Sdi, Toshiba, and CMEL.

The first company which can offer a OLED-TV is Sony!
The Sony Xel-1 is the world first Organic Panel Television device.

Sony's XEL-1 OLED TV could be available in the US before 2008 depending on how well it fares in Japan, company electronics president Stan Glasgow has told journalists at a press gathering.


Samsung Electronics Digital Media President Park Jong-woo said that organic displays can be a breakthrough in its TV business, as the competition for creating bigger screens now does not carry much meaning to consumers.
At the FPD International Samsung shows some 14-inch OLED and a product roadmap.

Following small panels used in 2007, 3.5- to 7-inch panels including 4.1-inch panels will be applied to ultra mobile PCs, for example, in 2008. Then we will realize 14-, 15- and 21-inch panels in 2009 and large 40- to 42-inch full HD (high definition) OLED TVs in 2010."

Toshiba also plans to begin selling televisions with OLED (organic light-emitting diodes) screens as soon as panels are ready, according to a company spokeswoman.

The first Toshiba OLED television sets should hit the market in 2009, said Yuko Sugahara, a company spokeswoman.

Chi Mei EL Corporation (CMEL), a subsidiary of Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), has announced that the company will invest NT$1 billion (US$30.6 million) to expand to a second OLED production line. Volume production is slated for 2008, said CMO president Chao-Yang Ho.

Besides the planned expansion, Ho said CMEL will introduce a 4.3-inch OLED panel during the first quarter of 2008. Another OLED panel sized at 7.6-inch will be launched in the second quarter, he added. Ho further noted that when the second OLED production line starts operation, CMEL will also introduce 11- and 12-inch panel production and expects to offer 32-inch AMOLED panels during 2010.

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