Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/17/sony_thin_oled_tv/
Sony has put the display panel used in its 3mm-thick 11in OLED TV (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/07/ces_sony_ships_oled_tv_stateside/) on a crash diet and produced a version that's less than a third of the thickness - not much beefier than a sheet of A4 paper, in fact.
Sony's OLED panel: just 0.3mm thick
Image courtesy Impress
The new panel is just 0.3mm thick - rather less than the 1.4mm-thick panel used in the XEL-1 OLED TV, introduced in Japan (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/01/sony_talks_first_oled_tv/) in October 2007.
The super-thin panel was uncovered at a display trade show taking place in Tokyo this week. Sony's yet to officially announce the screen’s arrival.
A report (http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20080416/display1.htm) by Japanese-language site Impress claims the 0.3mm-thick panel has similar characteristics to the XEL-1, matching the older model's 960 x 540 resolution.
Hopefully, the thinner model will also feature the XEL-1’s staggering 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio too.
The electronics giant also showed off a 0.2mm-thick, 320 × 220 OLED display at the show, but at 3.5in you’ll have to squint a little if you want to watch Eastenders on it.
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