Samsung recently at an event in South Korea confirms the fact that they will be launching the all new 55 inch OLED based HDTV in the second half of present year in South Korea. This new OLED based TV was first showcased at CES 2012. At that event also it drew the attention of all because of it’s ultra slim design and vivid colours. According to Samsung this TV will be the premium of the premium TV’s. This directly indicates that Samsung is interested in capturing the high end TV market and is expected to launch it near Olympics, when the sale of HDTV’s is at peak.
In South Korea the OLED TV is priced at 10.8 million WON which is approximately 9000$ in USD and Rs. 4.83 lakh in INR. But again the question is why the price of this TV is nearly double of the price of the present generation high end LED TV’s. The simple answer to this question is that this TV makes use OLED which stands Organic Light Emitting Diode. Presently the fabrication cost of an OLED is much higher that the normal LED or LCD. Due to this the overall cost of the unit rises.
However theoretically, once the mass fabrication of OLED starts than it would be cheaper to produce OLED than normal LED. OLED can even be printed on a paper using inkjet printer’s.
Advantages of OLED:
- Once the mass fabrication of OLED starts than the production cost of an OLED panel gets reduced considerably.
- OLED panel can be flexible which means in future we can roll our TV and keep it in our bag.
- Viewing angles and overall brightness is better as compared to normal LED.
- Power efficient.
- Response time of an OLED can be as low as 0.01 ms and it’s refresh rate can be 100,000 Hz.
Disadvantages of an OLED:
- Present way of fabrication quite costly
- Theoretically life span of OLED is shorter as compared to present LED. Green OLED usually have more lifetime than a blue OLED. Companies are finding different ways to increase the lifetime of an OLED.
- Balance of colours is unstable as the blue OLED has less lifetime as compares to other colour OLED.
- Instability of Blue OLED are the one which is causing the major delay in the replacement of LCD with OLED.
- Power efficiency of an OLED for a black or other colour display is much better as compared to LCD but for white colour the OLED consumer more power as compared to LCD.
- OLED is sensitive to UV rays. They can lead to the permanent damage of display.
- Outdoor performance of an OLED is not as compared to LCD
- OLED is also very sensitive to water and it can easily damage your OLED.