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According to Japanese business paper the Nikkei, Toshiba and Matsushita’s much-vaunted plans to join Sony in the OLED TV market have been shelved after problems moving from the research lab to mass production.
After finding trouble getting production efficiency to a level that could be commercialized, the Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology joint venture has decided to postpone its promised 30-inch OLED television set that was planned for 2009.
Instead, it will concentrate on smaller OLED screens for mobile phones and portable media players, according to the report. Should the experience prepare it to compete in the promising OLED TV field, we expect the firm to focus on the 25- to 35-inch sector of the market within five years.
(Crossposted to Tech.co.uk)
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Ok, How about OLED’s lifetime? Is OLED technology mature enough to mass production of huge screens?
Posted by Shoovi on 07/12/14 at 04:08 AM -
i cant believe they are not competing for OLED technology. Sony may have the lead right now, but others will follow when it comes mainstream
Posted by OLED TVs on 08/02/21 at 01:38 PM -
its good they are not competing as a saturated market may cause poor quality - as they did with LCD’s
Posted by What is OLED on 08/03/04 at 07:56 AM -
No, OLED is certainly not mature enough!
Posted by Gentleman Johnny on 08/03/09 at 01:04 PM