HDTV Almanac - OLED HDTVs Are Really Coming… Maybe

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Okay, I have to start by waving the white flag of surrender. As many of you may have noticed, I went “dark” for an extended period last fall while I was working on some major projects. For the past month or so, I’ve been behind but I was struggling to catch up by back-dating my [...]

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> [i]Even the OLED Association’s own forecasts show large panel production capacity to be just over [b]500 square meters per year[/b] for this year (but nearly tripling by next year). At a bit less than a square meter per 55″ OLED panel, that means that there’s only capacity to make 600,000 panels.[/i] <

Hmm... 'that does not compute', as the robot on Lost In Space (and Julie Newmar on My Living Doll before that) used to say. Did you perhaps drop a bunch of zeroes?

> [i]The consensus seems to be that the manufacturers will be lucky to build 100,000 OLED TV panels this year. Just putting one demo unit in every store that will want to carry them will eat up most of that production.[/i] <

100,000 demo units? Wow. For some reason, that seems like an excessively large number to me. I have no stats for the consumer electronics retail stores, but my impression was it was closer to ~25,000, nationwide. Have things actually expanded that much? I would have expected the opposite (due to the economy and store closings).