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Sony’s OLED TVs To Bow out ?

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Sony is withdrawing the three-year-old XEL-1 from retail shelves in Japan. Back in 2007, this 11-inch OLED TV was a technological marvel with its ubercool 3mm-thin bezel and an amazing 1 million:1 dynamic contrast. But fast forward to today, these figures are far from impressive judging from the new HDTVs announced at CES 2010 in Las Vegas. Then there’s the 3D TV buzz which has the whole A/V industry talking Blu-ray 3D and shutter glasses instead of OLED, let alone a puny 11-incher (Sony XEL-1) which costs an astronomical US$2,500 a set.

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Slim OLED Photo Frame From Samsung

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The frame has a foldable “L” stand design and an active matrix (AM) OLED panel. The device uses DLNA licensed technology to sync with other home and/or mobile photo and video devices. Samsung claims the the 9 x 6 x 4.6-inch Samsung 700Z can also be used as a secondary home or office monitor by connecting it to a PC through a USB cable, up to a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. According to Samsung the frame can be viewed from a wide 180-degree angle as well. Bluetooth allows users to share multimedia content across devices wirelessly, including uploading mobile photos and sharing pictures across multiple 700Z frames.

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LG’s OLED screen


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Whooo. (Not Wooo.) Amazing how a few well framed PR shots can reignite gadget lust, just when it seems extinguished. Sure, LG’s 15-inch OLED HDTV will probably follow the path of Sony’s $2,500 11-inch XEL-1 to the land of ridiculously overpriced trinkets that few can or will purchase and eventually falls by the wayside when larger, cheaper options become available. Still, checking out that ultra bright screen in these photos has us checking our bank account for an extra few grand, refreshing the feeling last experienced when we checked it out in person at CES. The appearance of these on LG’s Flickr stream would appear to support the summer mass production-December launch we’ve been promised, who else is wishing the 30-inch version wasn’t delayed until 2012?

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