SONY invested $200 million research and development of large OLED panel

America is expected to be in this year will be the overall transition to domestic analog TV digital TV, the news is a good news for the LCD TV industry. Yesterday, Sony Corp said it would invest $200 million for medium to large OLED panel R & D. October 2007, SONY pioneered the world's first OLED TV - Sony XEL-1.

General LCD glass substrate plant needs billions of dollars in operating costs, Samsung and SONY in the seventh generation LCD factory investment of more than $2 billion, the monthly production capacity of 50 thousand panels. The OLED panel production costs are relatively low, but the production of OLED monitors and television sets of intellectual property and design patents only in the hands of several large companies in the world.

SONY XEL-1 OLED TV

Sony XEL-1 size is only 11 inches, the thinnest at only 3mm. Because you do not need a backlight system, so Sony XEL-1 OLED TV can provide brighter colors, power consumption is relatively low. However, the current bottleneck is the price of Sony XEL-1. $1700 is enough to keep 99% of consumers out of doors. In addition, the treatment process is very complex, the initial stage of the high cost of manufacturing, so SONY is the only one in the industry can produce 2000 OLED TV companies.

Of course, SONY does not have the OLED TV set up pricing. Because production costs and transportation costs are lower than LCD TVs, so the OLED screen will eventually replace the LCD screen, which is like LCD to replace CRT.

Apart from SONY, some other LCD TV manufacturers are actively preparing to enter the field of large OLED tv. Samsung launched a 31 inch OLED TV on the CES show. Toshiba has promised to launch a large screen OLED TV, but then changed his mind.

Source: Bear Online