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OLED Coming This Year
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 13, 2007
The long wait for OLED may be over before the end of the year. Sony says it will begin selling these next-generation flat panel TVs in late 2007 and other manufacturers are readying them for 2009.
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OLED Prevails Over Mini-LED LCD in TV Shootout
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 11, 2023
Scarsdale, NY-based AV retailer Value Electronics has been rounding up flagship TVs from the top brands and pitting them against one another for two decades running in an effort to isolate the best of the best. The recent 2023 TV Shootout pegged OLED as the clear-cut winner over mini-LED LCD models in both the 4K and 8K categories.
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OLED Starts to Break Out Globally
SV Staff  |  Feb 24, 2016
The global market for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs grew nearly sevenfold in 2015, topping the $1 billion mark for the first time, according to a report from Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.
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OLED Turns 30
Bob Ankosko  |  Jun 22, 2017
15 Minutes with the Society for Information Display’s Dr. Taka Tsujimura

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the OLED display, we reached out to Dr. Taka Tsujimura at the Society for Information Display (SID) to discuss the past, present, and future of a TV technology whose future looks nearly as bright as it did three decades ago when researchers cobbled together the first practical OLED device.

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OLED: Live Fast, Die Young
SV Staff  |  May 09, 2008
Without question, Sony's XEL-1 is one sweet TV. Its OLED display, the first in a commercially available TV, is wafer thin, its colors are vibrant, and the contrast ratio is outstanding. Be sure to see it, and don't wait too long. Because it might...
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Olive's super-sleek new Opus No. 4 music server
SV Staff  |  Jul 21, 2009
Olive made waves-well, strong ripples-when it debuted its Opus No. 5 music server a few years ago. The No. 5 was built for serious listeners in a day when most music servers seemed targeted at fans of mainstream artists like Springsteen and Spears....
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Olympic fever is here. Are you watching in HD?
SV Staff  |  Feb 15, 2010
We're smack-dab in the middle of the Olympics (well, day 5 out of 17), and while the opening ceremonies didn't have the Cirque du Soleil-meets-Bravehard sense of epic theatrical scale the 2008 Beijing Olympics had, it's still a great event for any...
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Olympics Broadcast the Size of an Olympic Pool
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2008
Those lucky Brits. During the 2012 London Olympics, they'll receive BBC broadcasts in "Super Hi-Vision," on big screens across the country. Japan's public broadcaster NHK and Britain's BBC are collaborating on Super Hi-Vision, a format...
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Olympics in 3D
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 20, 2012
The Games of the XXX Olympiad will begin in London, England, a week from today with what is sure to be a spectacular opening ceremony. And for the first time in Olympic history, a goodly portion of the entire two-week event will be available in high-definition 3D to subscribers of MVPDs (multichannel video programming distributors) reaching nearly 80 percent of US households.
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OmniMount is Thinking Pink
SV Staff  |  Oct 21, 2008
It's October - leaves are changing, beer is pouring, and football is in full swing. But, October is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Yup — there's a reason you're seeing pink everywhere you look. OmniMount — which makes...
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On the Wall We Go
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Feb 12, 2006
Two new wall-mountable LCR systems from Paradigm are now shipping. The company says that, unlike earlier Cinema models that were designed for smaller rooms, the new models were developed for use in larger rooms.
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One - Singular Sensation?
SV Staff  |  Jan 06, 2008
When you're Harmony, the world's leading manufacturer of universal remote controls, what do you do for an encore to replace your best selling model ever? You start by listening to what your legion of satisfied customers and loyal dealers have to...
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One For All with All For One Remotes
SV Staff  |  Sep 09, 2008
One For All is already known for being a manufacturer of innovative universal remote controls. They've just unveiled two product lines, with a remote for everyone. For the high-end crowd, the new Xsight is an exciting new product line. Looking...
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One for the Road...and Home
SV Staff  |  Feb 18, 2008
You gotta love Blaupunkt's mettle for coming out with a portable active speaker system that can shuttle between the car, the home and the street. It's a clever engineering feat, but you'll need a lot of muscle to lug it around. Dubbed Velocity...
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One More (Free) Reason to Like TiVo
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Aug 16, 2004
As if we all needed another reason to like TiVo's Series2 DVRs with Home Media features (and all the other stuff), now Google (yes, that Google) gives us one more. It all started back in mid-July of this year when Google acquired Picasa, Inc., a Pasadena, California-based digital photo management company. (Well, actually, it all started back some million or so years ago when the last of the Neanderthals got run out of town by some pretty darn mean homo whateverus ancestors we all have in common. Think of it as kind of like a prehistoric Apple vs. Microsoft kind of thing - only, in this ancient case, Apple won.)
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