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#1 Jan 10, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Wandering around the LVCC Central Hall, I rounded a corner and saw this at the Mitsubishi pavillion:

That screen is 155″ diagonal. Yes, that’s equivalent to more than nine 50″ panels. It’s big. (Look at the person standing beside the lower left corner to get a sense of the scale.)
There are two interesting things about this [...]

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#2 Jan 15, 2011 at 12:28 pm

My thanks for friend and colleague Peter Putman for pointing out my error.

Folks, I got it wrong. This Mitsubishi video wall is not an LED dislpay, it's an OLED display. (Yes, I could try to argue that OLEDs are just a type of LED, but I'd be wrong. "LED" implies the inorganic little points of light that are used everywhere, and OLEDs are planar devices with totally different materials.)

In some ways, this makes the story even cooler, even if Mitsubishi did first show this display in 2009 though I believe that this is the first time it has been shown in this country. I should have realized that something was different about it because the image was so much dimmer than the LED billboards we see by the road or in sports stadiums. But apparently this is now a commercial product, which is interesting. It would appear that OLED is going to make its inroads at the very large and very small displays.

Alfred