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It'll be interesting to see if Sonys CLED prototype makes it to market and if it is comparable in quality and price.

Regardless, as soon as I can get one in 46" or maybe a few inches larger for under £1000 i'm in.
 
Wow, these look pure awesome :D I can imagine they will be insanely expensive for a few years at least though :( I'm guessing you will be looking at over £3k to start with.
 
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Some pundits have guessed that the 55" OLED will launch at between $5000 and $8000 USD. That's around £3200 - £5100 sterling. If, and it's a big IF, the panel can produce the colour saturation and black level performance then that's probably about the right value for a new technology TV product. I'd expect to see prices dipping south of £2000~£3000 within a year as the Koreans chase Panasonic for the premium home theatre market. LED backlighting will become dominant in the mass market. Traditional LCD will be pushed downrange.
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Well the 11" Sony OLED looks absolutely wonderfull and that's a few years old now.

The blacks make my Kuro look like an LCD tv and they were truly as black as a pitch black room! COlours were also lovely and I noticed no noise or any other annoying traits. Granted it was an 11" set but wow it blew my socks off when I at Sony HQ.
 
Probably the most pleasing thing about CES to me. I have an LCD now and initially thuoght I'd probably have a plasma next, then OLED in future, it feels sort of possible now that by the time I'll want a new TV that it'll be an OLED.

One thing though, all these 4k displays... SD is still quite common and can often look prettty ropey on a 1080p panel, on 4k it's going to look crap. Also will I really have to buy all my Blu Rays again in some 4K format? It was bad enough the first time replacing my DVDs lol.
 
Somnambulist said:
Probably the most pleasing thing about CES to me. I have an LCD now and initially thuoght I'd probably have a plasma next, then OLED in future, it feels sort of possible now that by the time I'll want a new TV that it'll be an OLED.
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I'm still on CRT, for tv and monitor - hoping to wait out plasma and lcd entirely :)
 
I'm going to hold off for a few years on one of these. I have a Samsung phone with OLED display and the screen does suffer from burn (I have permanent icon burn from my browser).

It doesn't seem to cope well with solid colours, they display varying levels of brightness across the screen. This isn't noticeable on photos.
 
Tripp said:
ugh!! face recognition, motion control, multi tasking functionality?, surprised its not also got touchscreen
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I wnat such controls, it's the future. Embrace it. Who actually likes remote controls. You misplace them, they are never there when you need them and they add clutter.
Also I bet it add dollars. So why not include it. The extra parts that make up such control interfaces arent in the least bit expensive.

Now eye control and voice control would be awesome.
No idea what samsungs is like, but check out tobii for windows 8.

Combine that with speech and you have an awesome feature. Voice for simple commands, or more complicated controll. Voice for camera to select correct pair of eyes.

Won't be upgrading till I buy a house, then I hope this tech is like 3k for a 60", can't see it but would be nice.
 
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I won't be buying into OLED for a good few years yet, it has nothing to do with the price soo much but more to do with it needing to mature.
 
I can imagine living rooms full of people waving their arms around, jumping up and down, and shouting, trying to control their TVs :)
 
I've always thought Plasma looked outdated compared to LCD TVs. This TV seems to have the Perks of both techs so I'd be interested. Weather I could afford one that's a different story.
 
Hopefully we'll get the benefits of both techs with none of the negatives. There's 2 or 3 things that really bug me with both current LCD/LED and Plasma panels and a handful of things they're both great at.

All this effort to get CRT quality in a tiny screen :)
 
Did Samsung sell their hard drive business to support SOLED?

Seems like it, but whatever, its a good trade off i imagine.

Glaucus said:
I wnat such controls, it's the future. Embrace it. Who actually likes remote controls. You misplace them, they are never there when you need them and they add clutter.
Also I bet it add dollars. So why not include it. The extra parts that make up such control interfaces arent in the least bit expensive.

Now eye control and voice control would be awesome.
No idea what samsungs is like, but check out tobii for windows 8.

Combine that with speech and you have an awesome feature. Voice for simple commands, or more complicated controll. Voice for camera to select correct pair of eyes.

Won't be upgrading till I buy a house, then I hope this tech is like 3k for a 60", can't see it but would be nice.
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They might not be expensive, doesn't stop companies from raising the price anyway since the average consumer wont know the price of said components anyway, its not necessarily unexpected however.
So that was a pointless remark.

The problem isnt entirely that the features are added, cause they are nice gimmicks, but usually lose their steam compared to minimal applications like said TV remote, sure you might lose your remote, but it tends to work flawlessly for quite some time, unless you are unlucky.

However speech recognition and control has to deal with an infinite series of accents (We all know they dont work as often as conventional technologies, though it isnt exactly as mature as them so its a fair problem), now if you could record it yourself and set up the commands, then fair play, but i doubt that very much, since generally that's more of a tech geek sort of desire and i doubt Samsung or anyone else will care, though a hack will inevitably surface.

We need to advance to a true voice synthesiser and limited learning programs to store a database of the accents, updating itself accordingly whenever new ones arise.

Though im getting ahead of the game here, but theres valid reasons why someone might not desire such things and would rather have them being options instead.
 
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