LG Electronics has announced that it will offer up a 15-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) television in Austria in May. This will be the world’s largest OLED television available when it launches. The LG 15EL9500 is only 3mm thick and provides an impressive contrast ratio of 10,000,000:1, response time of 0.001ms and what LG describes as “extremely low power consumption”.
“The OLED technology uses an organic material that can apply to very thin and even flexible surfaces. Therefore, the 15EL9500 is one of the slimmest TVs in our portfolio and is ideal for any trend-setter,” said Reinhard Huebner, Retail Marketing, LG Electronics Austria (translated from German).
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Seagate has shipped the new Barracuda XT hard drive with 2TB of storage capacity, 64MB cache, spindle speed of 7200RPM and its most notable feature of SATA 3.0 - or put another way - up to 6Gb/s transfer rate. Of course, in order to benefit from the SATA interface in the drive, you will need a compatible motherboard, such as an Intel P55-equipped motherboard.
The drive is, of course, backward compatible with older revisions of the SATA interface, meaning you can buy one and avoid paying for the latest motherboards, like those shown off recently at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, until you are ready. The 2GB capacity is also an attractive feature, but Seagate was beaten to that goal by Western Digital.
Nevertheless, it is the second Seagate 2TB drive, with the Barracuda LP announced in April (with spindle speed of just 5900RPM for low power consumption). Seagate expects the new drives to be used in high performance servers or high end gaming rigs for the near future. However, it’s $299 price tag might ruin its appeal for the moment.
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Samsung president of Samsung’s visual display Yoon Boo-keun has said today that he expects the company’s LED TV sales to jump to 2 million by the end of 2009, as the popularity of the TVs grow.
Boo-keun says the company has sold over 1 million units as of the end of July, and with some believing the recession may be nearing an end, he sees strong expected growth.
“It’s hard for a product to succeed, no matter what compelling new technology it contains, if consumers are not interested in it. We are doing a good job in evaluating what consumers value most, and integrating our technologies and marketing strategies accordingly,” he added of the TVs, which include Samsung’s own Wireless DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) technology.
LED technology has improved color performance over non-LED-backlit LCDs, as well as lower power consumption.
DisplaySearch has recently noted that they except LED-backlit TVs to take about 35 percent market share by 2012.
