Comments on: Sony XEL-1 OLED teardown

By: reza

reza — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:36:13 +0000

I was there when they did this breakdown. It really was boring, and bunnies photos are much more interesting than being there. They used a $20 webcam and a $2 light to display the breakdown to the crowd — you couldn’t see anything.

I’m just wondering – is bunny the guy with the long pony tail that was hogging the display as it was being passed around?

By: Scott McDonnell

Scott McDonnell — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:57:30 +0000

OLEDS are certainly cool, but I really took issue with the "look how thin it is!!" marketing BS in my Audio/Video mag. Yeah, thin, unless you look at the HUGE base station underneath it. So, if it were oriented on the back of the panel, how exactly would it be thinner than an LCD?

Not debating the superiority of the quality and contract, though. OLED is definitely the future. But more work needs to be done on creating thinner circuits for the drivers.

If SONY just left off the *shell game* of "Look at how thin it is!" from their promo hype (hence inflated price driven purely by marketing) the world would be a slightly better place. It is an insulting marketing ploy. How thin would LCDs be if you moved all of it's electronics to a huge base station? My laptop screen is pretty darn thin, too.

I predict the XEL-1 will flop because most people just aren't that stupid. Hopefully OLED TV technology survives it, though.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:07:08 +0000

LG tv’s also use a form of linux, I beleive the information on it is in the back of the manual, but I cant remember where mine is. As for the usb port, you can generally use that to show pictures and play music on most tv’s. If sony follows suit with a form of linux, I think a patch loaded from the usb port could be used to unlock the web browsing, and possibly support a usb keyboard to make browsing pratical, becuase the on-screen keyboard is the deal breaker for me, i hate that on xbox.

By: andre

andre — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:50:32 +0000

bwahaha.. “avalanche thermal failure” indeed… yeah, thats what i had once when testing an OLED panel from a broken phone. It looked fine, then got brighter and brighter and then rapidly darkened and went out in spots followed by the rest of the display :( grrr.

Interesting failure mode, shame I didn’t video it.

-A

By: Corey

Corey — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:57:38 +0000

My Sharp aquos 1080p LCD tv uses embedded linux.

By: TBJR6

TBJR6 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:14:21 +0000

Can anyone say linux built into a TV?

By: rj

rj — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:07:19 +0000

no, bunnie’s male.

By: bbot

bbot — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:41:07 +0000

Isn’t bunnie female?

By: SyNtAx

SyNtAx — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:01:17 +0000

lol i just bought embedded ce and xp to experiment with a few arm controllers and a few intel xscales i was looking in to oleds but i am reconsidering i dont like the drivers and i dont like the detonation (im looking 4 small screens but with a high definition)

By: hannes

hannes — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:51:13 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_breakdown

By: Frollard

Frollard — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:26:47 +0000

“avalanche thermal failures” in the circle of led products I do believe refers to when you have parallel strings of LEDs, one dies – causing more current to go to the rest, thus increasing the likelihood that they will fail – similarly, hot LED’s have less resistance, so they conduct more current, and get hotter – avalanche.

By: PocketBrain

PocketBrain — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:10:06 +0000

OLED’s are quite sexy. Just really expensive now. LCD panels finally got into the sane range of price; can we expect oled’s to fall thusly in the coming decade? I hope they solve the short lifespan problems soon, too.