Isaiah's Tech

At SID this week, Samsung has shown off a couple of displays. Yesterday, they showed off their "world's first" 55-inch true 240Hz Full HD LCD display. They've also showed off a couple of OLED displays and a new 10.1-inch LCD display fit for their future netbooks. The new 10.1-inch LCD displays consume 50% less power and also sport a wide 1,366 x 768 resolution. They also unveiled a new 4-inch QVGA TFT-LCD "made using a printable semiconductor process." Maybe we'll see the 4-inch display in a smartphone soon? I certainly hope so.

[Engadget]

This week there are a bunch of conferences going on: E3, Computex 2009, and don't forget about SID 2009. At SID this year, Samsung has just shown off their "production-ready" AMOLED TV sets, measuring in at 14.1 and 31-inches. It's the first OLED TV to have a Full HD display (1,920 x 1,080 resolution), a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, and a "color gamut of over 100 percent NTSC" (I don't know what that means). This display is just 8.9mm thin, which is thinner than my pinky finger. We'll see when this gets released and how much it will cost in the future.

[Engadget]

OLED technology really gets me excited, especially when they're able to bend around in weird shapes and stuff like that. Luckily, for me, Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) showed off their latest AMOLED prototype at the SID 2009 conference in San Antonio. This is the world's largest flexible OLED display to date measuring in at 6.5-inches, so that's definitely something positive. Several claims are also saying that it's the most flexible OLED display to date. It's only a protoype, but SMD claims that the response time is 1,000 times faster than traditional LCD technology.

SMD expects these flexible displays to be implemented in future watches, cell phones, and also flexible eBook readers (Kindle with OLED displays in the future?). Just in case I haven't told you enough, I'm really excited for OLED technology to get their big break. I'll be there to scoop one up when they're cheap enough.

[Slash Gear]