Sony's XEL-1 OLED TV landing in Europe in 2009? Too little, too late.

by Thomas Ricker Aug 13th 2008 @ 1:35AM

Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports this morning that Sony plans to sell its 11-inch XEL-1 OLED TV in Europe in 2009. That dovetails nicely with a two-week old statement by a Sony representative who said, "I'd be very surprised if this hasn't arrived in the UK by 2009." Us too, after all, it's been on sale in Japan since December of 2007 and was recently caught slumming the big box outlets in the US. It only seems natural then, that Sony would ramp production to the point that by 2009 they could meet the minimal, European demand for a $2,500-ish TV measuring just 11-inches -- million:1 contrast or not. Still, it's all a bit late if you ask us (you did right?) seeing as how Sony plans to be producing medium to large OLED panels as early as April 2009.

[Via AVING]

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Filed under: Displays, Sony, OLED

Tags: europe, oled, rumor, sony, xel-1

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zoran @ Aug 14th 2008 9:57AM

Couldn't you buy this on ebay, even if you live in china. Hdmi input is universal, right. So what is the point. Besides, I saw this thing in action and was not impressed. The picture looks like any other Sony or Samsung LCD.

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