2012 looks to be the year we finally start seeing some decent size OLED TVs, 3 years after the launch of the ridiculous Sony XEL-1 OLED TV which had a meagre 11” screen and a giant £3,489 price tag!

At CES it looks like both Samsung and LG will be announcing a 55” OLED TV, and while there is not much information on either Engadget report that the Samsung is expected to be launched in the latter half of 2012 and:

There’s no colour filter needed here, either, as the self-emitting RGB sub-pixels take care of themselves; since light output on the Super OLED is controlled on a pixel-to-pixel basis, you can rest assured that your blacks will be deep and your whites bright. Other specs include a dual-core processor and 3D support.

Samsung 55-inch Super OLED. Image from Engadget

While Sony don’t appear to be joining the OLED party they are releasing their own technology called Crystal LED that relies on “ultrafine" LEDs mounted to each RGB colour, equivalent to the number of pixels, which is all affixed directly to the front of the display.

Sony are claiming 3.5 times contrast, 1.4 times the colour gamut and 10 times faster response time than LCDs.

Sony Crystal LED Prototype

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Large Screen OLED TVs finally on their way

“Fastest LCD screen on the planet” is on its way to us according to Dutch electronics giants Philips which has announced some details on its new 9000 Series Smart LED televisions. It makes you wonder where the line will be drawn at the ever increasing technology in television screens. Back in the old days of CRT screens little happened with them in 20 years in terms of the technology, it was more the design that changed, since the explosion of LCD and Plasma they get better so rapidly. Anyway back to the Philips 9000.

• Measures  less than 40mm in thickness
• Full Active 3D with Full HD Picture
• Real-Time 2D to 3D conversion
• 3D Max Technology – High Clarity and Sharpness (can process 2billion pixels per second – wow)
• 400Hz Clear LCD Panel
• 0.5 millisecond response time (where the speed comes from)
• 3D Super Resolution and LED Pro Technology – added brightness, “extreme” contrasts, vivid colours, deeper blacks etc
• 40W audio soundstage
• Smart TV – movie rentals, social network access, smartphone control
• Full screen gaming “either split screen in 2D mode or a 3D mode where each player can simultaneously see his or her view on the entire TV screen.”

Sadly there’s no details on the release date or the price of this little number but it certainly looks great and the specs are top drawer so you can expect it to be a little on the expensive side.

Source : T3

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Philips 9000 Smart LED TV

CES has been in full swing the last few days and there’s been an absolute plethora of fantastic gadgets for us all to salivate over from TVs to mobile phones, Tablet PCs to Digital and Polaroid Cameras. First on our list of many is a new LED 3D TV from LG. The details of which were leaked just before it’s official announcement from the Korean electronic geniuses (or is it genii……)

At a whopping 72 inches diagonally the panel, unlike your average LED TV has a full array of LEDs, not just the edges or here or there, a full panel. Put this alongside LG’s TruMotion 400Hz technology, allowing for super fast picture and 3D image processing capabilities the images produced from this telly will be phenomenal and probably the smoothest 3D currently available even despite the screens behemoth size. Also the TV will offer LG’s Smart TV functionality allowing the user to access premium content from various sources all through the Home Dashboard as well as LG’s own content apps

Other extra features to whet your appetite are DLNA connectivity for media streaming across your home network. Media Link and USB connectivity not to mention the local dimming option with “micro pixel control”.

Coming sometime in the early part of this new year you’ll just have to wait and see what the price is. I imagine reasonable from LG.

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CES : LG LZ7900 : Biggest LED 3DTV EVER!

KDL-22PX300, not the most catchy of models is Sony’s brand new 22” LCD TV in the Bravia range to come out in time for Christmas and to entice a bit of what is essentially “retro gaming”. Thought the PS2 was dead. You’re wrong. Sony has built one into this new TV so that fans of what was once the biggest console in the world can go back to playing their old games due to the fact the PS3(which had backwards compatability taken away from it) can’t play all those classic PS2 games(unless you download them from the PSNetwork).

The 22” TV capable of 720p output can play PS2 games in standard definition and also playback DVDs. It has multiple HDMI slots(four in total) comes with inbuilt FreeView tuner, 3 USB ports, Scart, VGA and component video inputs. The KDL-22PX300 also has an ethernet port too for all your internet based, on-demand content that seems to be the latest desire in the market for your TV.

Available now for just under £200, Sony TVs never disappoint and also with this baby you can plug in your old PS2 pads and enjoy some of those classics. Who needs Gran Turismo 5 or Call of Duty.

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PS2 isn’t dead!! It’s just built into your telly instead

2006 saw Panasonic release a gargantuan 103” Plasma TV. Now with the next step in gogglebox technology being the 3D revolution, Panasonic have upgraded it to now feature 3D.

Available only at the moment to pre-order in Japan, the TV will output at 1080p Full HD with a contrast ratio at a massive 5,000,000:1 to go alongside it. Now with the massive size of the television plus it’s massive stats you guessed it a massive price to go hand in hand with it. This baby will set someone with a mansion to put it in £65,000. Not on ly that you’ll need a crane to get it in your house, 321Kg is it’s total weight with stand.

Makes you wonder how a country so full of small people and small gadgets that a telly this size could exist and have enough room for it to go in!

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Panasonic 103” Plasma 3DTV

The official model name might not be the easiest to remember but it’s alias is the Philips Cinema 21:9 Platinum TV will be getting a release sometime this month after it was officially unveiled in September at IFA.

The speccage of this TV is immense but as a result so is the pricetag :

• 58” LCD screen Ambilight Spectra 3 technology
• Bright Pro, 400HZ
• 21:9 cinema proportion
• Perfect Pixel HD processing
• Philips Net TV with fully interactive Web Browser

Now here’s the price. A whopping £3999, yes just shy of four thousand pounds!! Would you be willing to part with that sort of cash for a TV, especially when, even though it’s a 3DTV the necessary active shutter specs normally bundled with your TV, aren’t even supplied with it. Yes that’s right the £4K only gets you the screen and no specs………. outrageous.

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Philips 58PFL9955 – Cinema 21:9 3DTV

We touched yesterday on the new iMac upgrades and talked about the notion that some people only buy Macs because they’re “pretty”. Well another new Apple product that takes all aesthetic pleasantries from the iMac and that lovely Aluminium MacBook Pro and basically makes it a simple screen is Apple’s LED Cinema Display. If you didn’t know already the Cinema Display is basically a Monitor which can be used with either Mac desktop PCs or with laptops. Older models of the Cinema Display were limited to what could actually be plugged into it, but now Apple have seen the fault and left it accessible to basically any type of current Notebook or Desktop Mac.

Ok so what’s great about it other than looks. Originally available in a 24” or 30” model Apple has now opted for just a straight 27” more than adequate space and room for you to do your work and with a resolution 2560 x 1440 it’s certainly packing the pixel power. Obviously as it’s now LED backlit, the screen is super bright with no wait time and greater control of brightness of your screen, not only that it has an ambient light sensor that can adjust the screen brightness to an optimum setting for whatever light your room is currently in.

Other things it has include built in sound, a 49W built in speaker with subwoofer, for fantastic sound whether from your games or media content. It has a built in I-Sight camera and microphone for things like Skype and also packs great connectivity with 2 USB 2.0 ports and 2 Firewire 400 ports. One thing Apple are pushing with the display is it’s eco-friendly, free from harmful toxins and is made of recyclable materials

All in all it’s a great monitor to have if you have a Mac or Macbook. However like all things Apple it comes with a price to match. As it stands there’s no price and only a “Coming Soon” date but looking back at the older models you can expect anything from £700 to £1000 at least.

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Apple add 27" inches to its LED Cinema Display

Usually it’s “the bigger the better” but with Acer’s new S1 series of LCD TV screens it certainly looks like “less is more”. Announced this week, the super thin and small screens not only keep the high quality goods in a smaller space but also are “wallet friendly”. So if you’re interested in a smaller TV for your house or a decent quality, decent sized, space saving monitor, read on.

Housed in a nice glossy black outer shell the Acer S1 series truly indicate that size doesn’t matter. Opting to keep the screens small (18.5” to 23”) these little beauties only measure 15mm thick and a staggering 13mm in depth. Now I know you’re thinking squashing it so thin will mean it’ll lose out elsewhere. WRONG! They offer Full 1080p HD and a whopping 12million : 1 contrast ratio which alters frame by frame to deliver super sharp images. Couple that with a response time of 5ms and you’re looking at a belter. Now there is a downside in that the smaller screens only have VGA and DVI ports where as the larger 21 and 23 get HDMI too. Not only that with EcoDisplay low power consumption, you can sleep easy knowing your helping the environment too.

Prices start at an ultra-low £119.99 too.

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Acer S1 : World’s thinnest LCD

Last Friday saw the release of Sony’s first 3DTV the Bravia HX803. We spoke about it a few months back as one to watch, well now its here, ready for the World Cup and has been backed by an advert campaign shown during the World Cup matches ( if you haven’t seen it click here)

For a quick re-cap, HX803 is available in two screen sizes, 40” and 46” and packs Full 1080p HD with LED backlighting for great contrast ratios. They also include Sony’s Motionflow 200Hz Pro technology for super smooth images, Freeview HD, Bravia Internet Video and DLNA support for streaming. They also come packed with plenty of HDMI sockets too, 4 in all. The screen itself uses active shutter technology to give you better quality 3D images with special(expensive) LCD shutter glasses.

So although content to watch isn’t so readily available, Sony is adding some options for you to get your hands on some 3D viewing. The BDV-E370 is a 3D  Blu-Ray player which comes bundled with “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" Also the PS3 has recently updated to allow 3D games playback and when the NEX-3 and 5 cameras we spoke about last month come out they have the ability to take a high resolution panoramic shot that when shown on a 3D TV such as this, the image will appear in 3D.

Available now the screens start at a whopping £1799.

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Sony 3DTV out now

The LG OLED TV has been doing the rounds at tradeshows and on blogs the world over for a good year or so now but now us Brits can expect a release of the super sharp but small TV anytime soon. Now we can finally get our hands (well if you happen to be well-off) on a bigger rival to the Sony XEL-1 which was the only OLED screen available.

At 15” you may think this is relatively small in comparison to a 50” plasma or LCD but the quality is far beyond that of either of the older techs which if you have a mobile or PMP that utilises OLED technology you may have noticed the difference between it and its LCD counterpart. The output is a good 720p and will have Freeview inside. It also has a USB port and will playback any of your movie files including DivX HD. To top all that off though is the best part ………… It’s only 3.2mm thick.

No exact date has been posted by the South Koreans for us though but expect real soon. Also price details are a bit hazy too but you’ll be looking at around £1500. A lot you might say for a 15” screen. Unfortunately OLED screens aren’t cheap to make but when it’s only competition is the Sony XEL-1 which is a few inches smaller but £3000, it doesn’t seem too bad.

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LG OLED TV : Out this Month