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      LG to increase OLED line year by year

      February 1, 2010 /

      LG OLED TV.OLED TVs will be the next big (small, really) thing to come to your living room. The tech will cost you, though. When Sony first announced it’s 11-inch OLED TV, the unit cost $2,500. LG wants to offer something bigger, though, and you can bet it will have a bigger price tag.

      LG has previously shown off 15- and 19-inch models with hefty price tags, but it will introduce a 20-inch model later this year. Next year it will bump that up to 30 inches and in 2012 we’ll get a 40-inch OLED TV. As you can imagine, those things are going to be expensive. As the company’s VP, Won Kim, said, “They may be expensive, but it will be possible to buy a 40-inch class OLED TV in 2012.”

      So if you want something that basically looks like you’ve hung some paper on your wall, albeit very high tech paper, and have $10,000 or so to throw around, LG just might have the OLED TV for you.

      Source: Tech-On

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      Thin-Film Speakers Could Revolutionize Flat Panels

      May 2, 2009 /

      Say Goodbye to Speakers.When you buy a new TV it almost goes without saying that you’ll need new speakers. LCDs and plasmas gave back the 5-7 square feet that was once dedicated to cathode-ray tubes, but they pushed big built-in speakers out the door. The result: a gorgeous picture with tinny trash for sound.

      Commercial and academic researchers are looking to change all that by putting the speaker in front of your screen. Emo Labs, a startup from Massachusetts, has created transparent membrane that could replace traditional cone speakers. The transparent film lays over your TV display and is then “driven” by two piezo-electric actuators. The actuators create the motion usually produced by a magnetic voice coil to create sound waves.

      As you might imagine, laying a membrane over your picture does have its drawbacks. In its current form, the membrane nets a 4% loss in picture brightness. To be honest, that doesn’t seem so bad, especially as we get closer to the OLED revolution. With a 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio, 4% should hardly be noticeable.

      As for price, you early adopters will see the worst of it. Emo Labs estimates their membranes will add a 10-15% premium onto existing flat-panel prices. For larger TVs, you’d probably be better off putting that money toward a powered subwoofer. For smaller sets, under 27″ perhaps, the membrane could be another way to save space.

      Source: Wired

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