• The LG 15EL9500 OLED TV was released in Europe only, and never saw North America
• The Sony XEL-1, the first OLED TV is no longer available and Sony has no firm plans to manufacture other OLED TVs.
• Samsung is still showing various OLED concept TVs but has nothing available to consumers
• The LG 31″ OLED TV is promised to us next spring (2011) at a cost that should deter most consumers

Please visit again for OLED TV news updates, more news is likely after CES 2011.

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It’s always hard to say if new TV technologies will take off, or fall flat. Just look at HD DVD. Three or four months ago, it was hot. Prices for players were dropping drastically and the HD disc format looked like it may take the format war with Blu-ray just based on its much cheaper price. But how things change. One of the newer TV technologies making waves right now is OLED TV. The buzz surrounding the first commercially available OLED TV, the Sony XEL-1, has been huge. Even though the set m

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The 11-inch XEL-1 television, to go on sale this month, is Sony‘s first television for the U.S. to use organic light-emitting diode technology, which enables superior picture quality on super-thin displays. The company also is demonstrating a prototype 20-inch version at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas.

The XEL-1 has a contrast ratio — the difference between maximum and minimum brightness — of 1 million to one, because pixels can be turned off completely for a near-perfect black. That compares with 30,000 to one for a good conventional flat-panel TV, which can’t show a perfect black.

The high picture quality comes at a hefty price: about $2,500 for the XEL-1. It sold for $1,700 at its launch in Japan in December.

For around $1800 you can buy an 11-inch OLED TV from Sony…but you’d better be quick.

In Tokyo this week for the White LEDs 07 conference, we wandered into the Sony showroom and saw at first hand the company’s 11-inch OLED TV, which went on sale mid November.Production is limited to 2,000 units per month, and so most sales will be made through advance orders at major retail outlets. The 11-inch TV costs 200,000 yen including tax (around $1800).

The world’s first OLED TV is incredibly thin, measuring only 3 mm at its thinnest point, and provides an excellent image even at very wide viewing angles.