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Sony XEL-1

OLED

(Organic Light Emitting Diode)

The new TV generation has just stared. Sony has just introduced the very first OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TV to the market. For New Media Exploration Blog, this new TV kept my interest and I wanted to know about it. I have read a lot about this tiny OLED TV from Sony and I found out divided opinions. According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “An Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED), also Light Emitting Polymer (LEP) and Organic Electro Luminescence (OEL), is any Light Emitting Diode (LED) whose emissive electroluminescent layer is composed of a film of organic compounds”. I have read that Organic material has been used on cell phones and some other music player and now Sony is the first company to present it in a TV screen. The Sony XEL-1 is an 11-inch display that is only 3mm thin and weights two kilograms. The XEL-1’s picture is so colorful, vibrant, natural and high in contrast. Also the Sony XWL-1 has a resolution of 940X540 but takes input resolution up to1080p and it offers picture quality with amazing contrast, outstanding brightness, excellent color reproduction, and a rapid response times for smooth and natural reproduction of fast moving images like in sports and action movies. According to Sony “OLED technology can completely turn off pixels when reproducing black, resulting in more outstanding dark scene detail and a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1”. Also Extremely energy efficiency; in an O.L.E.D. screen, each pixel generates its own light; there’s no need for backlights. Its back panel has a coaxial cable input, two H.D.M.I. cables, a headphone/digital-audio output jack and a Memory Stick slot (to play photos of the memory card from a Sony camera). The XEL-1 comes mounted on a flat tabletop base. The screen floats above it, suspended by a chrome arm on the right side. Also Sony guarantees the XEL-1’s screen will be good for 30,000 hours. That’s 8 hours of watching each day for 10 years. On the other hand, there are also negative opinions regarding to the size (11 inch screen), price ($2,500) and there are no component-video inputs and no analog inputs for things like VCRs. 

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