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Samsung will unveil a 31-inch OLED TV at the January CES in Las Vegas and is promising much larger screens to come. “We have the technological ability to make 40-inch OLED,” said a spokesman, before adding that it won’t be until 2010 that the company will be in a position to mass produce such panels.

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In a groundbreaking deal, three Japanese CE giants are planning to join forces to develop OLED TVs. Matsushita (parent of Panasonic), Canon and Hitachi are expected to sign a multi-billion-yen deal to co-develop OLED into a mass-market TV proposition. The alliance will invest upwards of 300 billion yen to make organic electroluminescent panels for TV, […]

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After an excited claim that it would charge after Sony into the emerging OLED TV market, Toshiba has taken a reality check and admitted that it will not be shipping large screen OLED TVs in 2009 after all…or any time thereafter, as things stand. Complexities in panel production and high costs have ruled out such […]

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Protests from Korean workers fearful of losing their jobs have hampered Samsung’s plan to convert nine of its existing CRT production lines over to the construction of flat-panel displays. A reported crowd of 700 local workers, furious at the lack of guarantees from management regarding job security, rallied outside the company’s Busan plant, preventing the […]

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The world’s first OLED TV has gone on sale in Japan, ahead of its official December 1 launch date.  The Sony XEL-1 is just 3mm thin and has a screen measuring 11-inches, yet despite selling for 200,000 yen the first batch are already sold-out on pre-orders. Sony says it hopes to produce 2,000 OLED TVs […]

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