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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>General Forum</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/13.aspx</link><description>The main Meeting Place for BeoWorld members, and the place for General Questions, Answers and things to say! 
If you have any questions about anything Bang &amp;amp; Olufsen related - please ask. If you have anything to say - please tell!</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)</generator><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99390.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:55:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:99390</guid><dc:creator>SWISS_2</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99390.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=99390</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I noted last year in one thread here, that the Japanese had invested heavily in OLED R&amp;amp;D.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MITI seems to believe that&amp;nbsp;this technology will be profitable to manufacturers. The last time I checked in 2007, the R&amp;amp;D figure&amp;nbsp;invested was around 25 M Euros.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I remain hopeful that wall vids will someday arrive, and that Julie Christie will come bursting out in 3D in Farenheit 451 someday in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99388.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:50:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:99388</guid><dc:creator>TripEnglish</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99388.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=99388</wfw:commentRss><description>Don&amp;#39;t you think that for the&amp;nbsp;absorbent price they&amp;#39;re charging that it should be all it one!? And shouldn&amp;#39;t the screen be larger? What happens when HDMI 1.5 comes out? What will I tell my children?&amp;nbsp;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99327.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:59:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:99327</guid><dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99327.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=99327</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;koning:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The life time of a oled screen is very short (at this moment)!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt; no its not. Lifetime reached 10.000 hours its up tou you to calculate how many years this make.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99312.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:24:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:99312</guid><dc:creator>camshaft</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99312.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=99312</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;TripEnglish:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Don&amp;#39;t you think that for $2.5k it should have more HDMI ports? Are those HDMIs 1.3? If not, they should be. Does it support surround sound? If not, there should be a module, I think. Otherwise Sony is dead in the water.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;I imagine the screen would typically be used along with a high quality receiver though, which would have hdmi port switching and handle the surround sound.&amp;nbsp; The screen probably wasn&amp;#39;t made to be an all-in-one package.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99305.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:01:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:99305</guid><dc:creator>355f</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99305.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=99305</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;TripEnglish:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Don&amp;#39;t you think that for $2.5k it should have more HDMI ports? Are those HDMIs 1.3? If not, they should be. Does it support surround sound? If not, there should be a module, I think. Otherwise Sony is dead in the water.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;well even if it had more connection ports thats not a lot of use if the screen is dead in such a short time is it??&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99299.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:45:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:99299</guid><dc:creator>koning</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99299.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=99299</wfw:commentRss><description>The life time of a oled screen is very short (at this moment)!&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99296.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:31:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:99296</guid><dc:creator>TripEnglish</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99296.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=99296</wfw:commentRss><description>Don&amp;#39;t you think that for $2.5k it should have more HDMI ports? Are those HDMIs 1.3? If not, they should be. Does it support surround sound? If not, there should be a module, I think. Otherwise Sony is dead in the water.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99254.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:43:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:99254</guid><dc:creator>355f</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99254.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=99254</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Bingo:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Very small size but it is just a matter of time before there will be big televisions in Oled :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;well of course screens will get bigger but at the moment no hope on the life, so other technologies moving on might well take over in larger screen sizes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99251.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:37:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:99251</guid><dc:creator>Bingo</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99251.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=99251</wfw:commentRss><description>Very small size but it is just a matter of time before there will be big televisions in Oled :-)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99246.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:25:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:99246</guid><dc:creator>355f</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99246.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=99246</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;OLED very interesting..... it doesnt need glass and a flexible plastic substrate can be used for the display- so when production ramps up= very cheap to make in time!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that at present blue organics have a full life of approx 14K hours&amp;nbsp; ( plamsa is 60K even to half life and lcd much more)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So disadvantage is cost, lifetime at the present and the technologies very speedy move to half life- giving reduced brightness and a yellow tinge- buying one now will result in buying another very soon!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99238.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:53:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:99238</guid><dc:creator>The Beonic Man</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/99238.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=99238</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the post. I am interested in this new technology. Best wishes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/98951.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:33:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:98951</guid><dc:creator>SWISS_2</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/98951.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=98951</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/sony-xel-1-hands-on/706051/" title=": click to view next image"&gt;&lt;img height="600" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/03/sony-xel-1we_16.jpg" width="800" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although I&amp;#39;m quite happy with our new Beoviasion 8&amp;#39;s, I thought some of the members might find the Sony XEL-1 &amp;nbsp;interesting. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quite thin, HDMI ( but no Ethernet )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;source ENGADGET: &amp;nbsp;18.03.2008&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>OLED SCREEN</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/98950.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:29:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:98950</guid><dc:creator>SWISS_2</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/98950.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=98950</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.engadget.com/2008/03/18/la-television-oled-xel-1-de-sony-en-nuestras-manos/"&gt;&lt;img border="1" height="330" hspace="4" src="http://www.engadgethd.com/media/2008/03/3-18-08-sony-xel-1we_04.jpg" width="440" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/sony-xel-1-hands-on/706047/" title=": click to view next image"&gt;&lt;img height="600" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/03/sony-xel-1we_11.jpg" width="800" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>