Bye, bye, OLED, we barely knew thee!

[admin]

Toshiba has announced that it is shelving their plans to put out ultra-thin TVs that feature organic light-emitting diode technology. The displays were scheduled to be released in 2009/10 according to Reuters. We were afraid of something like this as OLED has been in "coming soon" land for years as LCD and Plasma technologies have matured and begun to drop in prices. Apparently, the OLED panels just cost too much to produce.

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[hemiram]

Had they solved the problem with the blue OLED lifespan? I would think that, and cost, had a lot to do with it. I was kind of hoping that in a couple of years, I could buy one, but it kind of looks like it's going to be an LCD in the living room instead. I guess I'll survive, somehow.