What the heck am I going to do with my multiple large LCD, LED, and plasma in 2012?

Hi,

Relax, it will still be quite some time before OLED will be commercially available in any meaningful sizes for home cinema. Even when they do, it will take another few years to overcome the initial inertia of the high costs so that they will be mass market affordable.


Bazzy!

yes, i agree we are still a way off from seeing OLED tvs in large sizes for affordable prices. The 11" sony is $2500!!! and the tech will only improve once it is more widespread. Look how far plasma and LCD tv tech has come since it started.. the original LCD/Plasmas were pretty awful by todays standards, and now the top sets for each are amazing! looking at the highest end tvs, (pana z series, XBR8, etc) i find it hard to imagine how a set could look amazingly better. I'm sure they will, but it's hard to envision. OLED will only get better the longer it's out, and i'm sure that the initial owners of the first plasma TVs (that cost 10-20 grand) aren't too happy with their sets nowadays. I definately don't want to be the one to buy the first 46-52" OLED set for $10,000.

Besides, there is always some new thing around the corner that's better (there will be something better than oled, no doubt in my mind), and then we'll be saying the same things about having to get rid of our 100" OLED screens (hey i can dream can't i?)

No need to worry about it. The world is supposed to end in 2012.

You can always donate them to a charity.

i have no idea which will come first -- the end of the world or large OLED displays...

Better give them to schools - their equipment is often Precambrian.

bye
Benny

Donating them to charity isn't a bad idea and you get a tax write off. Or maybe you can sell them to friends or relatives for cheap.

However, I doubt that large OLEDs would really be widespread and affordable come 2012. Seems a little too soon.

I hope I can watch the world end in HD in 2012. Preferably on a set of at least 46" size, you know, to see the world off in the style it deserves.

Hopefully the government will have something like "cash for clunkers" for obsolete display technologies.

Can you imagine seeing a bunch of Kuro's, Panny's, DLP sets all piled up at a toxic waste dump for obsolete displays. By that time we should have more "greener" enviornmentally friendly displays like and OLED and SED.

Don't forget the Sony, Samsung and Sharp LCD's.

Don't tell me u bought the 5 years extended warranty. Say it ain't so.

yup

Here's a novel thought! Try to live within your financial means and watch a normal sized TV like 99% of the world. Its this supersized mentality of the McMansions, huge SUV's, etc, that has destroyed this country. Consumerism has to be halted before we are totally owned by the Chinese. Try paying off your mortgage and credit cards before you worry about having a bigger TV than the poor schmuck next door!

Wow, KILLJOY.

The bigger the toy, it seems, the faster ppl get bored with them. Wanna buy Tom Perkins' Super-Yacht? After 2 years, he's bored with it already.

Hi,

It's amazing that America's politicians have warned the world so much about the dangers of communism, gone to war over it, started wars over it, bullied and influenced the world over it, nearly destroyed the world over it, refuse to recognise or deal with more liberal or poorer communist countries BUT has as one of it's biggest trading partners to which it owes Trillions of Dollars, the most autocratic, most inflexible, least tolerant, most corrupt, most inhumane, most powerful & most evil Communist countries the world has ever known in China - I wonder how most Americans feel about that?

Bazzy.

Bazzy, while not wanting to devolve into a political discussion, China's recent economic policies are much more aligned with capitalism that what is being spouted out by our current government's road towards socialism.

Kansas BeachBoy, how do you know the poster was not living within his/her means, has huge credit card debt and is over extended on his/her mortgage as your post implies? Maybe they want a large TV because they want it for their own enjoyment, can afford it and don't care about what their neighbors have. Just because you can't afford a new large TV every year (an assumption on my part based upon your post, I could be wrong), doesn't mean that poster can't. A new 65" Panny can be had for $3K with EPP discount, seems reasonable that someone would/could buy a new one each year that got either progressively larger or better at similar price points. Further, paying off a mortgage may not be the best economic decision based on the tax treatment of mortgage interest and the potentially much lower cost of mortgage debt vs. the returns that capital could generate over the life of the mortgage (assuming one can pay the monthly payment).

Waiting on a reasonably priced 85" and 100" display (plasma, OLED, anything)....

Who needs half a wall HDTVs as charity? Just sell one damn set and give them the money instead.

Too late, but if the Chinese begin churning out quality panels they'll be dirt cheap. I think China holds a mortgage against the entire US already and let's just hope they don't foreclose.

Hmmm...except that all the med students I knew when I was in graduate school drank like hobos.

Now a Ph.D....that's a real degree and one had to remain sober in its pursuit

So as my 5 year old HLN 46" DLP starts to suffer a slow death from DMD failure and I begin my search for new electronic love I came to ask if LED TVs are the wave of the future as they are vastly brighter and blacker then both LCD and Plasmas and then I come upon this thread and a quick google search led me to this site...

==> http://www.oled-display.net/oled-television

And only to see images like this...



And then to read the news that by 2013 (3.5 years from now) these will be out on the shelves of Best Buy and HHGreg I'm even more put out and want to spend even less then my budget of $1200 since I know now the price of the LCDs and Plasmas will be soon dropping faster then my dying 46" $3299 5 year DLP has. I love technology but sometimes it's not worth spending money on when you think of it's yearly declining resale/replacement value.

Signed
perplexed in Orlando

Boy, do I love subjective statistics!

I maintain another perspective: These people aren't "failures" because they drink but they drink and do other stuff because they aren't ambitious enough compared with guys & gals that want to pursue certain goals in life (big home, big family, big car etc.) and do what has to be done to reach them.

Some of these drifters (as they more or less passively drift through life) won't ever be successful in anything - regardless of the number of pints they consume. In fact it's probably better that they drink as that secures jobs in breweries!

bye
Benny

Absolutely!

bye
Benny

This is a new one that I must remember to tell my kids: study hard and you'll have a good marriage.