Razor Thin Tv's As Large As Your Lounge Wall

This device to be launched by Sony this fall marks a real turning point in TV screen technology, and will change the way you view TV in the future! OK, so this actual device won’t, but the technology that it is premiering will.

The screen is the first commercially launched based on OLED technology. A new organic form of LED. The technology has been mentioned here in Trend Hunter before, but only yesterday did Sony officially launch the first consumer product to feature OLED technology.

I met someone recently who has the priveledged possition to be given access to and test this new technology for Sony and they are already using Sony’s new OLED TV technology in their work (special effects for live performances) and say that it is amazing. Not only the high resolution but the way that the screen technology delivers the image in a way that renders black as pure black. Images will look far more realistic on this type of screen. Images appear very differently from on a traditional screen.

The great thing is that they are far thinner than other screens, in this case the screen is only 3mm wide.

According to the BBC they are to go on commercial release at the end of 2007. The first screens will only be 11 inches and will cost around €1400, a fair bit more expensive than LED screens, but for professional use this still seems to make the technology viable until Sony develop cheaper and larger screens for personal use in coming years.

The most interesting thing about this new technology is the way it is produced. The screens are created using a form of printing, literally applying the circuitry by printing it.  This means that eventually it will be cost effective and without limitations to create giant screen sizes.  While people where showing off their fancy 40 inch plasma’s, they will be no doubt wowing us with full wall to wall screens in their living rooms in the not too distant future (seriously!).