Tejstar
14-12-2007, 9:02 PM
I just saw the following article at ars technica (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071214-toshiba-puts-oled-television-production-on-hold.html). It looks like Toshiba are ditching plans to produce 30" OLED screens as the costs of making them are too high to be commercially successful.
Personally I'm quite surprised by this especially as OLED screens are meant to be the next technological advancement after plasma/LCD screens. If Toshiba are finding it too costly who else will get the returns needed for this to hit mass market?
Toshiba announced this week that it was shelving plans to build large OLED displays because the current and short-term costs of mass production are too high to create a commercially viable product. It's surprising that a company of Toshiba's size would back away from OLED-based television manufacturing. OLED displays, after all, have been touted as the Next Big Thing™ as far back as 2001.
Personally I'm quite surprised by this especially as OLED screens are meant to be the next technological advancement after plasma/LCD screens. If Toshiba are finding it too costly who else will get the returns needed for this to hit mass market?
Toshiba announced this week that it was shelving plans to build large OLED displays because the current and short-term costs of mass production are too high to create a commercially viable product. It's surprising that a company of Toshiba's size would back away from OLED-based television manufacturing. OLED displays, after all, have been touted as the Next Big Thing™ as far back as 2001.