SONY HAS INTRODUCED OLED TVS: An 11″ model that you can buy now, and a 27″ prototype. The picture is better than regular LCD or Plasma screens — a million-to-one contrast ratio with no backlight — and they’re thinner.
My impression, though, is that there’s not much that’s really new here — just a lot of slightly-improved iterations of products that are already out there, for the most part. Sony led off its presentation with the Rolly (pronounced “role-y”), which is basically a dancing Walkman. Apparently it’s huge in Japan, but so was Spinal Tap. I’m underwhelmed. Here it is, up close, on a lighted disco floor. It’s about the size of my fist.
