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Prototype Sony XEL-1 shrinks already super-thin OLED TV to under a millimeter thick

Sony's new screen technology shaves two-thirds of the depth off of the existing XEL-1 OLED TV.

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Home A/V | by Stephen Schenck | Mon Oct 6, 2008 5:32PM | 0 comments

Sony unveiled a prototype update to its existing 11-inch XEL-1 OLED TV (pictured) at this year's CEATEC show, reducing the set's thickness to 0.9-millimeters. The incredible screen thinness is due to its OLED technology, which uses pixels that directly emit light, rather than LCD screens where the pixels only filter light generated by a separate backlight, requiring much more space behind the screen. The new TV is based on a super-thin technology Sony showed off earlier this year, where the the screen itself is made only 0.3-millimeters thick by reducing its glass layer, but rendering the display incredibly brittle in the process. Sony hasn't announced a scheduled release or price for the new OLED model, but its current, 3-millimeter thick XEL-1 sells for around $2,500.

[Via PC World]

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