No. They will produce OLED TVs, but not until the technology becomes useful in any way. At present, OLED is completely useless for TVs.

Soon? No.

I believe we will have to wait for any manufacturer to build a practical OLED tv first...

355f stated that OLED should replace LED next year (2010). Perhaps. However, we know that B&O traditional seem to use tried-and-tested technology. B&O have a reputation of producing products that both last and are supported. There's NO way that this means that B&O will be one of the early adopters of the new technology. I can't see an OLED B&O TV for at least two years.

That new Sony OLED TV is....11 inches. A prototype 21" TV has been shown and a 27" is promised. However, 32" and the more important 40" are probably way off, even from Sony.

Also, who's guessing the price for this OLED 11" Sony TV? I bet that won't be cheap.

While

TripEnglish wrote:

While link still exist with OLED technology, I don't think that Bang & Olufsen will be sitting on the sidelines for nearly as long..

Trip, at the moment B&O can't even get their sw right. I've had my dealer around this afternoon and we both believe the new sw in the Sky box is causing problems with my new BV7-40 MKIV. If so, this is yet another Sky-related problem with the BV7-40.

Let's be practical here. Some of the biggest TV manufacturers in the world - with huge economis of scale - have yet to embrace OLED and, the few that have (Sony) can only release a 11" TV. The liklihood of a 32/40" in the next two years, is slim, never mind a B&O OLED TV.

The original question asked whether there would be a OLED-based B&O TV 'soon'. I don't thinkw we'll see a 32/40" TV 'soon' from Panasonic, Pioneer or Sony. Perhaps end of 2010 or early 2011?

moxxey wrote:

TripEnglish wrote:

While link still exist with OLED technology, I don't think that Bang & Olufsen will be sitting on the sidelines for nearly as long..

Trip, at the moment B&O can't even get their sw right. I've had my dealer around this afternoon and we both believe the new sw in the Sky box is causing problems with my new BV7-40 MKIV. If so, this is yet another Sky-related problem with the BV7-40.

I don't think this Sky problem is limited to BV7 40, i was speaking to a friend who had a new Sky HD installation last week and the engineer went through 4 boxes before he got one to work and the final box only worked (he thinks) because it did not have the latest menu system.  The others displayed issues with HDCP errors, and menu options but no satellite signal as well as shutting down and locking out IR commands and this was on a BV4 with Bsys3 I know it's the same chassis but the point was it worked perfectly with a different Sky HD box.  A guy from Sky said they've had alot of box failures since the new software update.

You're right. I didn't mean to indicate that we'll see one soon, only that we will see them along the same timeline as our OEM manufacturers roll them out. I.e. if Samsung rolls out a 32" in 2011, we won't wait until 2015 to implement it. Of course that's talk at this point, but I've seen enough concrete developments in our underlying tech to indicate that this will be a reality. 

meandmyshadow wrote:

I don't think this Sky problem is limited to BV7 40..

Perhaps. But the same Sky box, with the MKIII, with updated EPG, worked fine. The only difference in my setup, is the new MKIV.