Sony applications – OLED Technology demos
Sony applications
In 2004 Sony released the Sony CLIÉ PEG-VZ90, the first commercial device to feature an OLED screen.
In 2006 Sony introduced the MZ-RH1 Portable Minidisc Recorder, which has an OLED screen.
At the Las Vegas CES 2007, Sony showcased 11-inch (28 cm, resolution 960×540) and 27-inch[59] (68.5 cm, full HD resolution at 1920×1080) models claiming million-to-one contrast ratio and total thickness (including bezels) of 5 mm. Sony released a commercial version of this television in Japan in December, 2007.
Sony plans to begin manufacturing 1000 11-inch OLED TVs per month for market testing purposes. Sony has begun selling an 11-inch OLED Digital TV (XEL-1) for $2499.99 CAD
On May 25, 2007, Sony publicly unveiled a video of a 2.5-inch flexible OLED screen which is only 0.3 millimeters thick.[63] The screen displayed images of a bicycle stunt and a picturesque lake while the screen was flexed. On October 1 2007, Sony announced it will sell 11-Inch OLED TVs for 200,000 yen (1,962.51 USD as of 4/1/08) from December 2007, only in Japan[64] and with an initial production of 2000 units per month.
At the CES 2008, Sony showcased the Walkman X series with 3” OLED touchscreen.
On April 16, 2008, at “Display 2008″, Sony showed a 0.2 mm (0.0079 inch) thick 3.5 inch display with a resolution of 320×200 pixels and a 0.3 mm thick 11 inch display with 960×540 pixels resolution. That’s one-tenth the thickness of the XEL-1 (which is also 11 inch and the same resolution).
On October 4, 2008, Sony has published results of research it carried out with the Max Planck Institute over the possibility of mass-market bending displays, which could replace rigid LCDs and plasma screens. Eventually, bendable, transparent OLED screens could be stacked to produce 3D images and their outstanding characteristics means that their contrast ratio and viewing angles are far better than existing products.
In April 2009, Sony demonstrated a 21″ prototype at the Display Japan conference in Tokyo.