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Sony abandons OLED TV for the consumer market

According to a report in the  Daily Yomiuri Online ,  Sony  is halting development of organic electroluminescence  display panels  for consumers. While Sony will continue selling  OLED  panels to corporate clients, the television manufacturer will only create LED and  LCD panels  for the mass market. Sony first rolled out a model of an OLED for the consumer market in 2007, but the expensive price tag of the  Sony Drive XEL-1 OLED TV  was difficult to fathom compared to LED models at the time. Over the last few years, Sony’s lack of marketing around consumer versions of OLED panels was limited and OLED presence at CES was typically tucked away in a small portion of Sony’s booth. OLED televisions are created by using electroluminescent organic materials and are typically much thinner than  LCD televisions . When activated, the materials emit light and eliminate the need for a backlight in the televi...