Now this is just too cool to pass up. The Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo has a new display from Mitsubishi Electric called “Geo-Cosmos” that combines 10,362 OLED display panels into a giant live-updating sphere 6-meters across.
The globe was installed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the museum, as a result of Executive Director Mamoru Mohri “wanting to share with people the sight of our beautiful Earth as seen from space.” The display features constantly updated satellite images of the earth. There are also interactive “Geo-Scope” touch-screen panels which allow visitors to browse images and data collected from all over the world. Something particularly interesting was a simulation showing the point of origin and eventual dispersion of the March 11 tsunami following the great earthquake.
Yesterday we told you about Samsung’s (SMD) impressive AMOLED Flexible Display, and now someone has posted a short video of the screen in action.
The display is impressive, but like the original poster I’m a bit concerned about the white lines in the display. Is that systematic of traditional trade-show wear & tear (faulty signal line), or is this display a combination of 6 or so displays cobbled together? I honestly don’t know.
DisplayMate has revisited their Mobile Display “Shoot-out” and updated it with a huge amount of information, including the shown-above chromaticity diagrams indicating the resulting gamut. Much to my surprise, the Motorola Droid outperforms every other phone (including the iPhone), although the Samsung Galaxy has the widest support. In reality, the Galaxy’s support actually makes the visuals worse by oversaturating the colors.
Figure 1 shows the measured Color Gamut for each of the Smartphones along with the Standard Color Gamut in black. The outermost white curve is the limits of human color vision – the horseshoe is the pure spectral colors and the diagonal is the line of purples. A given display can only reproduce the colors that lie inside of the triangle formed by its primary colors. Highly saturated colors seldom occur in nature so the colors that are outside of the Standard Gamut are seldom needed and are unlikely to be noticed or missed in the overwhelming majority of real images. Note that consumer content does not include colors outside of the Standard Gamut, so a display with a wider Color Gamut cannot show colors that aren’t in the original and only produce inaccurate exaggerated on-screen colors. The dots in the center are the measured color of White for each of the Smartphones along with the D6500 Standard White, which is marked as a white circle.
What’s that you say, that 65″ TV you’ve got isn’t big enough? How about the new 100″ Diamond Vision OLED display from Mitsubishi? They claim they’ll begin selling it in 100″ and higher sizes next week (September 21st) for those of you with deep pockets.
The Diamond Vision is bright (1,200cd/m²) and has a good contrast (twice as better as LED, says Mitsubishi) – so it can be used in brightly-lit areas such as airports or stations. The OLEDs were jointly developed by Mitsubishi and Pioneer.
They do this my manufacturing small modules that are 234mm-square, and 128-pixels square. Unfortunately, each pixel is approximately 3mm in size, so you have to stand a ways back.
No idea what the price on this will be yet, but no doubt it will be reserved for the various Jumbotron-stadiums of the world.
At IFA2010, LG is demonstrating a new 31″ OLED-TV that is an astonishing 2.9mm thick, and capable of full HD at 600Hz. It’s only a prototype, but LG is targeting a 2011 release.
Blends in harmoniously with any home interior, whether on a stand, or mounted on walls or even ceilings
31 inch OLED-Tv
World slimmest depth with 2.9 mm
3D Crosstalk Free
Infinite Contrast ratio
Viewing Angle Fee
I mean look at that photo, there’s practically nothing there!
At the upcoming IFA2010 event in Berlin, looks like LG will be the company to watch as they roll out a 31-inch OLED Television prototype.
The IFA-2010 event starts on 03.09. and ends at 08.09.2010 in Berlin. LG Electronics (LG-Display) plans to show a new 31 inch OLED-Television prototype at this event. Our source seoul.co.kr report about the exhibition and the new products which LG-Electronics plans to show. LG Electronics show a new 31 inch OLED-Tv, 72 inch 3D-LED-Tv, and the world thinnest LCD-TV with 7 mm.
No numbers on price, but I suspect it will be far beyond the reach of mere mortals.
TVLogic, a producer of high-end monitors and displays for broadcast and professional users, has just announced a pair of 15-inch OLED displays, a 2D and a 3D capable model. The specs aren’t bad:
100,000:1 Contrast Ratio
Ultra-Wide 180º viewing angle
3G/Dual-link – 4:4:4 and 1080p 60 compatible (optional)
2 x 3G/HD/SD-SDI inputs
2 x 3G/HD/SD-SDI outputs
1 x DVI input, 1 x HDMI input(w/HDCP)
Analog Component/Composite/S-Video/RGB inputs
Built-in waveform/vector scope
1:1 pixel mapping modes for SD/HD
Audio Disembedder & built-in Speaker (Audio phone jack output)
Supports TVLogic Color Calibration Utility for proper color alignment
Timecode display (VITC/LTC)
Support Dynamic UMD
Closed Caption : CEA-608/708
Embedded Audio Level Meter (16ch.)
The 3D version uses active shuttler glasses, and both TV’s operate at 1366×768, making them capable of displaying 720p.
Last week we brought you news of the “Google Nexus One OLED Display ShootOut” from the guys at DisplayMate, which showed that the display was lacking in features, resolution, and brightness compared to the LCD iPhone 3Gs Screen. Well, the OLED Association has responded saying that while Dr. Soneira found some important issues, his test wasn’t entirely accurate given the technology of OLED.
Dr. Soneira compared images using his own test equipment and concluded that the images on the Nexus I had some serious flaws and showed these images in his report. His diagnosis was that the PenTile OLED subpixel arrangement, the 6-bit color depth, (really 5-6-5) and the high color saturation in the OLEDs were the cause. The Nexus I, however, has a feature that allows the system to use modes of both 5-6-5 bit or 8 bit color depth depending on the image and the designer’s choice. Typically, 8-bits are invoked when the user touches the screen. While Dr. Soneira acknowledges that nonbandwidth-limited content of text, icons and graphics are very crisp, he seems to indicate that the less challenging bandwidth-limited image content is less well rendered. He suggests that the PenTile configuration somehow reduces the resolution and limits the gray scale. This conclusion is just incorrect.
OLED-Display.net has the full response, although it’s a bit difficult to read. I invite Barry Young to send us his rebuttal so that we can post it here as well, hopefully with some better formatting.
Another entry in the tiny but expensive OLED TV space comes from LG, who will be releasing their 15″ OLED TV in Europe for a whopping 1999 € (roughly $2700). From the opening paragraph of their press release:
LG Electronics (LG), a leading global supplier and technology leader in consumer electronics, brings in Austria a TV to the latest generation on the market. The only 3mm deep and 15 inches wide 15EL9500 is equipped with the latest OLED technology (Organic Light Emitting Diode) and for total television experience of the future. With a sharp contrast from 10.000.000:1, a reaction time of 0.001 ms and an extremely low power consumption, is one of LG OLED worldwide as one of the finest quality, technologically TV. The design and high-tech device comes in early May on the Austrian market.
Translated with Google Translate
Don’t know about you, but I find it hard to justify that much money for a 15″ TV running at only 1366×768, even if it is OLED and has a 10Million:1 contrast ratio.
The Google Nexus One Android phone is the pinnacle of Android mobile handsets, and boasts one of the new OLED screens in use in readily available mobile handsets. However, just how good is the screen? The guys at DisplayMate took a very in-depth and scientific approach and compared it to various displays, mostly the iPhone 3GS LCD, and found it woefully lacking. This summary says it all:
OLED displays are at the leading edge of display technology – they are still under development and still being perfected as a production display for use in consumer products. That’s interesting, but they still need to be judged in comparison to LCDs, which are the dominant display technology in all current mobile devices. In that regard, if the Nexus One display were an LCD it would rank among the worst displays we have ever seen in a shipping product. Some of this is undoubtedly due to poor integration of the display hardware with the Android OS and software. Much of it, however, is simply due to very poor factory calibration and quality control, especially with the lack of any credible color and gray scale calibration
Their tests include details on the PenTile pixel arrangement in use, the color-depth, and image qualities. The tests are still underway, as well, so keep checking back for upcoming results on color temperature, gamuts, and color shifts.
Now this is just too cool to pass up. The Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo has a new display from Mitsubishi Electric called “Geo-Cosmos” that combines 10,362 OLED display panels into a giant live-updating sphere 6-meters across.
Yesterday
What’s that you say, that 65″ TV you’ve got isn’t big enough? How about the new 100″ Diamond Vision OLED display from Mitsubishi? They claim they’ll begin selling it in 100″ and higher sizes next week (September 21st) for those of you with deep pockets.
TVLogic, a producer of high-end monitors and displays for broadcast and professional users, has just announced a pair of 15-inch OLED displays, a 2D and a 3D capable model. The specs aren’t bad:
Last week we brought you news of the “
Another entry in the tiny but expensive OLED TV space comes from LG, who will be releasing their 15″ OLED TV in Europe for a whopping 1999 € (roughly $2700). From the opening paragraph of their 
The Google Nexus One Android phone is the pinnacle of Android mobile handsets, and boasts one of the new OLED screens in use in readily available mobile handsets. However, just how good is the screen? The guys at DisplayMate took a very in-depth and scientific approach and compared it to various displays, mostly the iPhone 3GS LCD, and found it woefully lacking. This summary says it all:
VizWorld.com 
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