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Samsung’s 30-inch 3D AMOLED TV won’t make you dizzy, will leave you poor and silly

Feeling that 3D craze yet? No? Well what if we told you that Samsung was bringing stereoscopic 3D to its magnificent AMOLED panels touting a million-to-1 contrast? Today in Japan it’s showing off its 30-inch AMOLED 3D television with Full HD panel measuring just 2.5-mm thick. Although much is lost in the Korean language press release, Sammy is claiming that itd panel plus shutter-glasses technology helps to reduce the dizziness felt by some 3D viewers. The set’s just a prototype at the moment but its price will certainly invoke financial vertigo whenever it might hit the manufacturing lines. One more very serious picture after the break.

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Samsung’s 30-inch 3D AMOLED TV won’t make you dizzy, will leave you poor and silly originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AUO previews lots of fancy displays, clownfish-approved 1080p 14-inch OLED monitor

FPD International 2009 is nearly upon us, and as we’ve seen in years past it’s a time of wondrous innovation and gratuitous side-shots of impossibly thin displays. Leading off the pack this year is AUO, teasing a number of new panels and technologies that may or may not rock your living rooms sometime in the next two to four years. Chief among them is a 14-inch, 1080p OLED display with a 100,000:1 contrast ratio and 16 million colors. There will also be a range of switchable and glasses-free 2D/3D displays ranging from 8- to 65-inches, a ridiculously wide 58-inch 2.35:1 TV with a 2560 x 1080 resolution, and, naturally, a skinny LCD — in this case the 65-inch beauty pictured below that’s just 7.9mm on the Z plane despite pumping out a claimed 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Good stuff? Yes. The craziest displays we’ll see this week? Not a chance.

[Via OLED-Display.net]

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AUO previews lots of fancy displays, clownfish-approved 1080p 14-inch OLED monitor originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung and Uni-Pixel team up for better, cheaper TMOS displays

Uni-Pixel has developed a new display technology that could succeed LCD and LED displays, and if all goes according to plan we might see something come to market as soon as next year. Opcuity uses one layer of MEMS film in in a TMOS (multiplexed optical shutter) device for results that are said to be ten times brighter and sixty percent cheaper to manufacture than LCDs (which use five layers). Since TMOS displays are very similar to LCDs, existing manufacturing lines can be used — lowering start-up costs and rescuing older assembly lines in the process. According to the company’s CFO, the manufacturing process “subtracts from existing LCD lines–you just need to remove some equipment that is no longer needed.” Samsung and Uni-Pixel have teamed up to produce 4-inch displays using the technology, but who knows? Maybe Microsoft Research’s interactive office will become a reality sooner than you think.

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Samsung and Uni-Pixel team up for better, cheaper TMOS displays originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung’s Flexible OLED Screen Goes Under the Hammer

Samsung has been working to deliver flexible displays for cellphones that will be significantly thinner than current LCD screens and allow for new form factors. But a big question for electronics makers will be how sturdy are these flexible displays? There’s only one way to answer that question and that’s with a hammer.

A video clips shows what happens when you pound a flexible, 2.8-inch display that is about 20 micrometers thick. And the answer is nothing. There’s not a scratch on the OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display. In comparison, an LCD screen shatters when it is hit.

It’s an interesting demonstration of the technology’s potential. Flexible displays are a hot area of research. Arizona State University’s Flexible Display Center is working with the U.S. Army to create flexible displays that are so thin and light that they can be rolled up and stuffed into pockets or backpacks. Those displays could be available in limited field trials in about two to three years.

Samsung hasn’t disclosed when it plans to bring its flexible displays to market. But it is likely, the the first commercial products with flexible displays will debut around the same time.

[via OLED-Info]

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• Researchers Create Paper-Like Flat, Flexible Speakers
• Flexible Displays Closer to Reality, Thanks to U.S. Army
• Samsung Shows Flexible Display For Cellphones

Please hammer, don’t hurt Samsung’s flexible OLED prototype (video)

Surely by now you’ve seen pictures or videos of flexible OLEDs — many from Samsung. Did you ever wonder just how durable the things are? The video after the break should answer that question. In it, one of the Hammer Bros. from the Super Mario games, apparently frustrated about Polyphony Digital’s endless delays, is attempting to destroy a screen looping a Gran Turismo 5 clip. A traditional LCD shatters like so much porcelain, while the 2.8-inch, 20 micrometer thick OLED display is completely unaffected, even when folded. Impressive, and apparently just the thing to wear when exploring the Mushroom Kingdom.

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Please hammer, don’t hurt Samsung’s flexible OLED prototype (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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