I could remember about 4 to 5 years ago that plasma TVs were the best flat-panel television displays on the market at that time. A 50 inch plasma TV about five years ago was going for about $6000-$8000 and they had obvious advantages over the big bulky television sets of those days. The picture quality was a lot better plus you could be able to see the image at all angles. Plasma television screens stay hot for a few more years but after that it was the LCD TVs that took over in popularity because they offered a superior image, superior brightness and superior contrast but recently over the last year or so LCD TVs have been coming down in price very quickly. Pretty soon you could be able to get a 32 inch LCD TV for about $300. There are many reasons for this price decrease including the very bad economy that we are currently in our but another reason for this price decrease, which few people don't really know about is the OLED display.
OLED or organic light emitting diode is a brilliant new to LJ that uses organic substances that already admits a bright blue, red, white or green light that can be seen at any angles and they don't need any kind of backlight that LCDs use which means they can be even thinner than the thinnest LCDs currently on the market, and because you don't need to use any other energy source or light source to energize these organic compounds you can operate these OLED screens at considerably less energy than LCD screens.
For a few years now LCD's have enjoyed this very or contrast ratio of 10,000:1(this is the highest contrast ratio that an LCD has achieved so far) but with OLED television screens the contrast ratio can theoretically go up to 1,000,000:1 therefore giving OLED the clear advantage in contrast ratios. OLED's also have a far superior color accuracy level than LCD's because in OLED displace every organic pixel contains the blue, green and red elements to produce every color needed for TV viewing as opposed to LCD screens simply don't have the color realism because the process of producing color and LCDs is somewhat sluggish and manufactured.
While LCD screens have made significant progress and improvement to their displays viewing angles this still pales in comparison to OLED screens. OLED TV screens have an almost perfect viewing angle. This means that you could see the TV image even from the far side angle of the TV the same way that you could see the TV image as if you were standing directly in front of the TV itself. While LCDs have come a long way in this field they have come way short compared to OLED TV screens.
While LCD image displays are currently the best on the market for big-screen TVs they still have a problem as they still suffer from a motion lag or blur of motion that is still noticeable to the naked eye. OLED screens on the other hand do not suffer from this problem as they have the fastest response rate time of any of the screens that are currently out in the market because they use TFT technology alongside the organic diodes.
While LCDs have come along way you could barely notice that any image moving a bit too fast still lags compared to a regular CRT television. OLED's are also nearly perfect in this area.
The only area right now that LCDs have OLED's beat in is the area of price. I have seen some very impressive 65 inch LCD flat-panel TVs for around the $3000 level. Sony just came out with its first marketable OLED TV and it's around 11 inches and currently sells for around the $2200 level. Now while OLED has LCD beat in almost every area it still needs to come down in price. Now as OLED technology starts to improve and gets cheaper to manufacture this won't be a problem for too long. I expect bigger OLED TVs at much cheaper prices to come out within the next 2 to 3 years. When these new bigger screens at the market LCDs could be in big trouble.
I hope you have enjoyed my article on this awesome new flat-panel display technology. Look for my upcoming article on flexible OLED's annual bedazzled even more as these new TV screens have the ability to be bent like plastic still have the same crisp colorful display. One day you will be rolling up your TV screen like a newspaper and taking it anywhere you decide to go.
