source?  oh right, you have none.  did you go to CES?  it was tough to tell because nearly every single set (OLED or otherwise) at the LG booth was 3D. I wondered, at the time, if that was intentionally done to skew people’s ability to judge the image quality of their various TVs.

otherwise, the only reasons why the LG sets got attention were:
1) placement (they put them right near the entrance that was underneath the huge wall of gigantic 3D TV sets near one of the Hall’s exists)
2) 3D, some of the sets were 3D
3) one of the LG sets was in “production model clothing,” so to speak…. instead of putting that particular TV in an obviously non standard chassis like the other LG sets, they put it in a conventional black plastic chassis like you would expect for an LED LCD.
4*) I cant remember off the top of my head for sure, but I seem to remember that one of the LG sets was larger than the 6 or 7 identical Samsung sets, but I could be getting that mixed up.  Either way they were getting a lot of “mileage” out essentially “gimmicks” that did not reflect device quality or performance

either way, LG is in a very bad position.  They will not even begin manufacturing these sets until Q4 2012 according to their president or CEO recently, despite their claims of having them available to buy in stores BY Q4 2012… fulfilling a long standing tradition of promising OLED sets within 6 months of CES, and then never actually selling them.

Samsung owns a fairly large proportion of the process and design patents, not to mention the vast majority of the trade secrets related to OLED technology.  Without question they are the most advanced, highly invested, and profitable OLED manufacturer.

Samsung manufactures 40-50% of all OLED displays of any type in the entire world.

if you just consider current commercially relevant OLED displays used in “high end devices” (there are no TVs, so the highest end devices are tablets and phones)….

Samsung actually manufactures ALL OF THEM.  AMOLED and SAMOLED are solely Samsung technology and no one else makes them, under license or otherwise.

Every nokia, motorola, LG, HTC, etc. phone that uses an AMOLED has a samsung screen.

source?  oh right, you have none.  did you go to CES?  it was tough to tell because nearly every single set (OLED or otherwise) at the LG booth was 3D. I wondered, at the time, if that was intentionally done to skew people’s ability to judge the image quality of their various TVs.

otherwise, the only reasons why the LG sets got attention were:
1) placement (they put them right near the entrance that was underneath the huge wall of gigantic 3D TV sets near one of the Hall’s exists)
2) 3D, some of the sets were 3D
3) one of the LG sets was in “production model clothing,” so to speak…. instead of putting that particular TV in an obviously non standard chassis like the other LG sets, they put it in a conventional black plastic chassis like you would expect for an LED LCD.
4*) I cant remember off the top of my head for sure, but I seem to remember that one of the LG sets was larger than the 6 or 7 identical Samsung sets, but I could be getting that mixed up.  Either way they were getting a lot of “mileage” out essentially “gimmicks” that did not reflect device quality or performance

either way, LG is in a very bad position.  They will not even begin manufacturing these sets until Q4 2012 according to their president or CEO recently, despite their claims of having them available to buy in stores BY Q4 2012… fulfilling a long standing tradition of promising OLED sets within 6 months of CES, and then never actually selling them.

Samsung owns a fairly large proportion of the process and design patents, not to mention the vast majority of the trade secrets related to OLED technology.  Without question they are the most advanced, highly invested, and profitable OLED manufacturer.

Samsung manufactures 40-50% of all OLED displays of any type in the entire world.

if you just consider current commercially relevant OLED displays used in “high end devices” (there are no TVs, so the highest end devices are tablets and phones)….

Samsung actually manufactures ALL OF THEM.  AMOLED and SAMOLED are solely Samsung technology and no one else makes them, under license or otherwise.

Every nokia, motorola, LG, HTC, etc. phone that uses an AMOLED has a samsung screen.

these are tech demonstrators, their design is irrelevant since they are not real TVs.  The TVs wont even work by themselves because all of their electronics (think:  graphics processors, power supplies, signal processors used to convert an HDMI video signal into the required electrical signals used to turn on pixels on the screen properly, etc) were hidden inside of the big plastic “art piece.”

I have written and rewritten my comment about 6 times so far.  Suffice it to say that if you do not have the background you might not agree with my statement and you might not understand it either, but its an absolute fact and its a well known thing in the OLED TV “world” since this technology first started rearing its head in the middle of the ’00s

none of the OLED TVs, samsung or LG, are production models.

none of them were manufactured in factories that will actually eventually manufacture OLED TVs.

true production models will not resemble anything you saw at CES, even the single “production example” LG model (they had one that was made out of conventional black plastic with plugs in the back, whereas all the others were sleek and had their electronics hidden inside of “booth furniture”).

all of the OLED TVs at CES this year were technology demonstrators. They are manufactured painstakingly, in extremely low volume, by small teams of highly skilled engineers and scientists in their course of doing research on the development of this very technology.

if you were to quantify the value of these of these individual screens, you would likely find that they cost Samsung and LG tens of thousands of dollars individually just to make them in the form you saw at CES.

OLED technology in televisions is a promise made every year**, but a promise that has never been kept.

Even LG, who promised to SELL sets THIS YEAR has now reversed their statement and is claiming that they will BEGIN PRODUCTION in Q4 2012, with absolutely no chance until 2013.

By the way, some people have been comparing the LG to the Samsung sets and have been using the CES awards as a measure of the importance or quality.

1) LG won because their set was 3D, not because it looked better than the Samsung set

2) LG won because they cobbled together a set that looked like a production set, even though thats a total lie.

** Note:  Sony’s XEL-1 was yet another technology demonstrator.  They made a laughably small number (a thousand or so for the entire world), they manufactured them all in 1 batch and never made more, they were terribly expensive ($2,500 MSRP; $3,500 in practice) they had hilariously bad stats for such a high price (11″ and 940×540), and all customer reports say that they performed poorly.

they never attempted it again.  It was a publicity stunt.  A huge proportion of the international buyers were press, with essentially the remainder being sold IN Japan.  They sold them at a loss/at cost.  It was the equivalent of a technology demonstrator that was sold to the public.

these are tech demonstrators, their design is irrelevant since they are not real TVs.  The TVs wont even work by themselves because all of their electronics (think:  graphics processors, power supplies, signal processors used to convert an HDMI video signal into the required electrical signals used to turn on pixels on the screen properly, etc) were hidden inside of the big plastic “art piece.”

I have written and rewritten my comment about 6 times so far.  Suffice it to say that if you do not have the background you might not agree with my statement and you might not understand it either, but its an absolute fact and its a well known thing in the OLED TV “world” since this technology first started rearing its head in the middle of the ’00s

none of the OLED TVs, samsung or LG, are production models.

none of them were manufactured in factories that will actually eventually manufacture OLED TVs.

true production models will not resemble anything you saw at CES, even the single “production example” LG model (they had one that was made out of conventional black plastic with plugs in the back, whereas all the others were sleek and had their electronics hidden inside of “booth furniture”).

all of the OLED TVs at CES this year were technology demonstrators. They are manufactured painstakingly, in extremely low volume, by small teams of highly skilled engineers and scientists in their course of doing research on the development of this very technology.

if you were to quantify the value of these of these individual screens, you would likely find that they cost Samsung and LG tens of thousands of dollars individually just to make them in the form you saw at CES.

OLED technology in televisions is a promise made every year**, but a promise that has never been kept.

Even LG, who promised to SELL sets THIS YEAR has now reversed their statement and is claiming that they will BEGIN PRODUCTION in Q4 2012, with absolutely no chance until 2013.

By the way, some people have been comparing the LG to the Samsung sets and have been using the CES awards as a measure of the importance or quality.

1) LG won because their set was 3D, not because it looked better than the Samsung set

2) LG won because they cobbled together a set that looked like a production set, even though thats a total lie.

** Note:  Sony’s XEL-1 was yet another technology demonstrator.  They made a laughably small number (a thousand or so for the entire world), they manufactured them all in 1 batch and never made more, they were terribly expensive ($2,500 MSRP; $3,500 in practice) they had hilariously bad stats for such a high price (11″ and 940×540), and all customer reports say that they performed poorly.

they never attempted it again.  It was a publicity stunt.  A huge proportion of the international buyers were press, with essentially the remainder being sold IN Japan.  They sold them at a loss/at cost.  It was the equivalent of a technology demonstrator that was sold to the public.

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Sucks, Have to open in new tabs.

Sucks, Have to open in new tabs.

All the same, cool TV but I’ll wait for prices to fall.