Organic LED or OLED TV

OLED TV has an organic light emitting diode screen, which uses an organic chemicals based electroluminescent layer as the light emitting medium. OLED Screens are now being used in high end Mobile Telephone screens, like the AMOLED screens on Samsung Smart Phones. OLED TV, OLED panels, OLED Monitors and OLED Screen will be common place soon as the prices are declining. They are very expensive now, Sony for example has an 11 inch OLED TV, seen in this 2008 Video on the right, and it still costs about US$ 2500-.

The OLED Contrast Ratio is very high since OLED has no backlight. The TVs can also be made very thin, in fact it may be possible, in future, to have TV screens which are flexible and which can be rolled up like a sheet of paper.

DuPont stated in a press release in May 2010 that they can produce a 50-inch DuPont OLED TV screen in two minutes with a new printing technology. If this works out, then OLED TV prices may hit the bottom and we may be looking, in the future, at giant 100 inch OLED TV or bigger, hung like a painting on walls.

OLED TV Power Consumption is less than half that of an LED TV of same size. This could well be the end of LCD TV, LED and Plasma TVs and also of the rear projection TVs and front projectors. This will not happen this or the next year, but by the end of this decade, OLED TV will be cheap and almost everyone will be having 100 inch OLED TV or bigger, hanging on their walls !

Difference between LED and OLED TV

Though the names of these two types of TVs are almost the same, only difference being an extra 'O' in OLED TV, the OLED and LED TVs are totally different. An LED TV is just an LCD TV with LED bulbs as backlight. OLED on the other hand is more similar to a Plasma TV because there is no backlight and the cells are self lighting. Thus no comparisons at all can be made between LED vs OLED TV.

Progress in OLED TVs has been slow, but in a recent exhibition Mitsubishi Electric of Japan unveiled their Mitsubishi OLED TV which was huge. We have some videos of these Mitsubishi OLED TV below. Mitsubishi talks about having unlimited size for Mitsubishi OLED TV outdoor displays based on modular building blocks of small OLED elements. They even build curved screen OLED. The videos below are just unbelievable !!!