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14.1" HD OLED TV confirmed for January 2009

Claus said:
Some great news from IFA 2008: 14.1-inch HD OLED TV, 120Hz, price tag about £ 1,000

http://www.techradar.com/news/television/samsung-to-launch-oled-tvs-at-ces-2009-461446

http://www.oled-display.net/samsung-want-to-introduce-14-inch-hd-oled-panels-at-ces-2009

Good enough for on-set preview and grading?
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Actually, I'm a bit more excited about Field Emission Display panels. They seem to be in a similar state of development to OLED but have the potential to produce more accurate CRT-like color rendition (because that's basically what they are). Prototypes can also display up to 300 frames per second, although I'm not sure what the advantage of that is.

There are still unanswered questions about the reliability and life expectancy of OLEDs. The blue emitters used to have lifetimes measured in 100s of hours! I always worry when something with a severe technical limitation like that suddenly appears on the market without any explanation as to how they solved it.

I think we may be in for another LCD vs Plasma showdown:-)

But you can get really good Sony LCD TVs for bargain prices at the moment as stores try to shift the post-Olympic backlog. They may not be sold as broadcast monitors, but there's not THAT much difference in picture quality between them and Sony's Grade 1 products.
 
Plasmatic said:
Actually, I'm a bit more excited about Field Emission Display panels. They seem to be in a similar state of development to OLED but have the potential to produce more accurate CRT-like color rendition (because that's basically what they are). Prototypes can also display up to 300 frames per second, although I'm not sure what the advantage of that is.
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I agree - these are amazingly promising. Got very excited when I read about them. No visible phosphor dots, 180deg viewing angles, scaleable, potentially cheap. All the advantages of CRTs, all the advantages of LCDs, without the disadvantages!

High refresh rates are useful for not flickering when panels get very large, and for minimising motion smear. A perfect monitor does not add it's own distortions and artifacts to a signal, and these look like they are getting there!

I just hope the manufacturers don't keep prices artificially high. In theory these could be used to make huge Grade 1 monitors available at consumer prices.
 
I hear Field Emission Displays are the way to go, but still in the prototype stage waiting for investors.
 
Field emission: From talking with one of their reps at NAB, it seemed that they were still seeking financing/investment so that they could build their factory. And that they were targeting the "master monitor" market first (that's what they call it) since it takes less money. (So presumably it's all about economies of scale, but they aren't able to get huge sums of money so no consumer-like pricing here.) It seems to me that it might turn out to be vapourware, even though the technology looks promising.

I just hope the manufacturers don't keep prices artificially high.
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If you want a reference monitor with accurate colors, then the price will likely be higher than the cost of a consumer display. Consumer displays aren't designed for color accuracy... and I don't see this trend changing. The professional market also has some specific needs like graticule markers, and I don't see that happening in a consumer-priced display.

There are very affordable products like the Decklink, but there's a reason why there are products a lot more expensive than the Decklink.

Just my opinion but I've seen a lot of consumer monitors do some really wacky things.

Good enough for on-set preview and grading?
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I doubt it... unless you'd be happy with connecting up any LCD for monitoring (which can be fine for some purposes).

It's a consumer TV so I wouldn't expect much in the way of accuracy. Out of the box it will most likely intentionally oversaturate colors. The native gamut of the display is almost certainly wider than Rec. 709, at '107%' presumably 107% of NTSC, which is a much larger gamut than Rec. 709. The NTSC primaries/gamut is obsolete by the way; no modern video system uses it.

Though then again, you won't really know whether this monitor might be suitable until they start shipping it. Hopefully it is 1920x1080 (the Sony OLED isn't I believe). If it isn't, then it'll be pretty terrible for monitoring or grading.
The 1000000:1 contrast ratio is probably a lie.
 
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