I think the potential problem with a 55" edge lit LED TV is that the panel size would accentuate even more the problems inherent in the technology.

To make the TV full backlit LED would increase the set's depth,not to mention it's cost.

2012 is the year of OLED.  LG have just launched a 55inch one and apparently, its picture quality is outstanding in every possible way. This is going to make LCD screens incredibly poor in comparison overnight. Tim, i sincerely suggest that you wait a little while.  This market is changing very fast and really, you'll be throwing a ton of money down the drain if you are not careful!

Tod Daniel wrote:

2012 is the year of OLED.  LG have just launched a 55inch one and apparently, its picture quality is outstanding in every possible way. This is going to make LCD screens incredibly poor in comparison overnight. Tim, i sincerely suggest that you wait a little while.  This market is changing very fast and really, you'll be throwing a ton of money down the drain if you are not careful!

With regard to OLED has the problem of non uniform ageing of the RGB colours been solved?

I would be very wary of jumping onto a new technology bandwagon.

Look at the problems that manifested themselves with LCD,some of which have still not been resolved.

2012 is the year when LG and Samsung make press anouncements about OLED. Don't be fooled by marketing.

In 2012, OLED :
- Is still only visible in tech show prototypes
- Is at least as expensive as a B&O TV, but with no sound, no DSS module...
- Has to prove that it can display a "better than LCD" picture for more than 5 years
- Allows makers to make a 4mm-thin TV. Wow, really interesting to have a 4mm-thin TV hanging on the wall instead of a 4cm-thin TV... Some like to have paintings on the wall, some like to have posters... As long as we can't benefit of flexible surface, I prefer paintings ;-)
- corrects some problems of the LCD that only a few people still have (not enough luminosity, not enough contrast, not enough reactivity...), while adding new problems that everyone will have (aging...)

If you look at the prototypes displayed at the CES, you can see that :

-LG has chosen to use white OLED as illumination only
-Samsung uses "full color OLED" with no white illumination but direct colored pixels
-Sony has an interesting full-LED backlight and no OLED : behind each pixel, there is a white LED. That's only a full-LED display, but with this technology, it's almost the same as the LG OLED...

Some were crying for a 3D set 2 or 3 years ago. Now that 3D only starts to be viewable without being sick, the technology is abandoned by Hollywood... LCD is not dated, and we will not see any really interesting-to-buy OLED TV in 2012.

I had a go with the Sony OLED screen (I think it was a 15inch model) Christmas 2010 in Selfridges, London. All I can say is stunning in terms of picture quality and the thinness like a piece of A4 paper was bizarre but amazing at the same time.

Weird isn't it how we had to put up with buzzy CRT for decades and decades and yet, within the last 10 years all of these alternatives have appeared with real gumption!

Tod Daniel wrote:

2012 is the year of OLED.  LG have just launched a 55inch one and apparently, its picture quality is outstanding in every possible way. This is going to make LCD screens incredibly poor in comparison overnight. Tim, i sincerely suggest that you wait a little while.  This market is changing very fast and really, you'll be throwing a ton of money down the drain if you are not careful!

They showed a prototype at a trade show.  Nothing has been "launched" and when these things finally ship expect them to cost as much as a B&O TV with an average life cycle of about 5 years.  We're still very far from OLED being the more dominant technology.  VERY far.

Tim wrote:

In my opinion there is substantial gap in the offering of B&O here - regarding the design: Of course the BV 9 was in a different price (and weight) level. But while the BV 10-XX nicely stands at the side of a room like a picture waiting to get hung up (at least when the TV is on the chanterelle feet)

I agree ... look at this lovely set-up in the Flash Your B&O thread: /forum/general-discussion-and-questions/beoplay-a9-max-volume#post-2163087

Not sure it would work for 55" ! but it does bring back the *wow* factor of the BV5/BV9

Both OLED and Sony's new Chrystal lcd look fascinating with OLED going on sale to "millioniares" at the end of this year. The Chrystal screens look a good bet as they are a new take on current technology, but still giving near OLED images. Do i upgrade my Mk3 or........

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/888174-oled-versus-crystal-led-televisions-a-real-on-screen-battle

elephant wrote:

I agree ... look at this lovely set-up in the Flash Your B&O thread: /forum/general-discussion-and-questions/beoplay-a9-max-volume#post-2163087

Actually, this posting was the reason why I thought about the size of the Beovision 9.

But after reading this thread there are some concerns regarding expensive televisions:

- Technology is evolving so fast and right now there are 3 Technologies I can not ignore:

- OLED Screens

- Autostereoscopic 3D TVs

Actually I think 3D is here to stay - if not with Hollywood, then with homevideo - But I do not want to wear silly glasses. Especially when there is the first autostereoscopic TV available NOW. Can I live with the color of normal LCDs? Yes, but I understand that OLED Screens are superior to everything we have seen to date. As an alternative, give us this sony Technology.

Somehow I have the feeling that the technology of TV is not really mature, this is totally different with Speakers: They are as good as they get: There will probably nothing better then a Beolab 5 for a very long time. 

So, probably I'll get a Beolab 5 first :-)