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This is a bit sooner than expected but welcome OLED TV news. Just prior to CES2008 tomorrow, Sony released the following:

 

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sony Corp. on Sunday said it is introducing to the U.S. market a high-quality organic LED television only as thick as three stacked credit cards.

The 11-inch XEL-1 television, to go on sale this month, is Sony’s first television for the U.S. to use organic light-emitting diode technology, which enables superior picture quality on super-thin displays. The company also is demonstrating a prototype 20-inch version at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas.

The XEL-1 has a contrast ratio — the difference between maximum and minimum brightness — of 1 million to one, because pixels can be turned off completely for a near-perfect black. That compares with 30,000 to one for a good conventional flat-panel TV, which can’t show a perfect black.

The high picture quality comes at a hefty price: about $2,500 for the XEL-1. It sold for $1,700 at its launch in Japan in December.

For more details on the XEL-1, please click on the SonyStyle link below.


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    One Response to “ SONY XEL-1 OLED TV for sale in U.S. this month ”

    1. Digital Products Review
      March 17, 2010 at 11:19 am

      That rss page on your website here is brilliant, you should tell people about it in your next post. I haven’t noted it a first, now I’m using it every morning to check on any updates. I’m on a rattling slow dial-up link in Ohio and it’s quite baffling to sit there and wait for such a long time ’til the page loads… but hey, I just found your rss page and added it to the Google Reader and voil? – I’m always up-to-date! Well buddy, keep up the good work and make that rss button a little bigger so that other people can enjoy that as well :-P

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