OLED TV Reviews

This year in OLED TV. The year started out with only one OLED TV available, the Sony XEL-1. This was available for approximately $2500 in Sony retail stores. However, as the year progressed, the first production OLED TV disappeared from the scene. Sony phased out the XEL-1 and did not announce any plans to follow it up with a larger model despite rumors emanating from various trade shows.

LG started 2010 with its first OLED model, the 15EL9500. This 15" OLED TV was initially available in Korea late last year and was introduced into Europe early in 2010. With a price of about $3000 dollars U.S. it was obviously not for the average bargain seeking consumer. Despite announcements from LG that it would offer the 15EL9500 in North America in the summer of 2010, this never materialized and an LG spokesperson told me in August that they had no plans to bring it to the U.S. or Canada. A larger model is rumored from LG for early 2011 but there is no firm info available on that yet.

Samsung has been in the news recently with rollable OLED material and predictions of roll-up OLED TVs coming in 3 years. Time will tell, but at the end of 2010 you still can't go into a store and buy an OLED TV from any manufacturer.

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