While Samsung and LG were busy displaying their OLED HDTVs, Sony had something else up its sleeves for the CES 2012. This new ace in Sony’s hand is being called Crystal LED technology and according to them, it’s better than even OLED technology. It was expected that Sony would come up with something to compete with the upcoming OLED TVs as the Japanese giant has forsaken OLED technology for HDTV manufacturing for quite a while now.
What is even more interesting is the fact that these Crystal LED lights are going to be arranged according to a totally new engineering plan. They are not going to be used for backlighting as LEDs are used nowadays; instead, the Crystal LED lights are going to be fixed right in front of the TV panel. There are going to be roughly six million blue, green and red LED lights used in the Crystal LED TVs when they come out later this year. However, Sony’s claims that they will be better than OLED TVs are not quite supported by neutral parties. Some of the experts were even of the opinion that though Crystal LED is impressive, OLED seemed a little better.
We will hold off our opinions till we are able to see and compare the finished products side by side when they are available. This technology has one advantage over OLED and that is the cost of production. According to Sony, They will be easier and cheaper to produce and thus a more acceptable price tag will be possible for the company to place on the final shipments. Although The Crystal LED TVs might not have convinced everybody about their performance being better than OLED TVs, rest assured that these LED TVs will offer ten times the refresh rates that most Sony TVs of the contemporary times are able to offer. The executives representing Sony were also quite confident that the new technology will allow the viewer to experience wider color gamut, wider viewing angles, better in-light visibility and astoundingly clear contrast level improvements over all current gen plasma and LCD TVs. It will have to wait a while before we can get hold of one of the models and test them out.
