Tech Notes: Toshiba playing around with OLED TVs
February 27, 2009 by Derek
Toshiba has been claiming they’re tweaking OLED TV technology that could be appearing in TVs in the very near future, and could best LCD in color accuracy and black levels, two primary LCD sticking points (though not as big a sticking point as a few years ago; LCD has improved in these areas somewhat).
Of course, Toshiba has been saying this about OLED for a few years now.
Lately, the trade papers are reporting that they are working with diffraction gratings (a technical buzzword for reflecting light in certain ways internally) to make an OLED picture extra sharp and clear. Their goal is to make the output efficiency much better than LCD currently, and these new tech additions have improved light output by 60%, without increasing power consumption, which sounds good to us.
Toshiba for their part still claims mainstream OLED TVs are years away even now, but after hearing about (and seeing some of the tiny OLED TV’s out there now) them, we’re excited to see the first practically priced bigger models roll out.
