@reddingofish: Haha, I work at Sam's, and we just got a 3500$ Kuro Plasma. Not a bad tv.

BenjiClayton

@snakepliskin: It took 10 years to get plasmas down to a price that a Sam's shopper could afford.

reddingofish

The first Plasma I ever saw was a 30" RCA for $15,000 and it looked like crap. They had a VCR plugged into it. Dead pixels all over it.
Did anyone watch Andomeda Strain? When they pulled out those e-papers I told my wife, "There is the death of the paper industry." That is what I want. A computer I put on a clipboard. When I am finished with it I can put back in the stack of other e-papers on my desk and then access it via my desktop whenever I want.

reddingofish

so what happens when the kids soccer ball bounces off the livingroom floor and glances off your playing-card-thin TV?

snappage?

rainfever

Yay! hopefully this means sony is on the way to bigger and cheaper tvs. Maybe by 2010 we'll have decent prices.

snakepliskin

The little 11" er I saw at Sony was visually stunning. It is the future of displays if they can maintain that quality in larger screen sizes. By reducing the material substance, assembly procedures and shipping weight for comparible-sized lcd and plasma units the costs should plummet way faster than we saw with the advent of flatscreens.
8 years ago I knew a guy who bought a 42" Panasonic plasma for $22,000.oo!

ANoel

@shadymilkman:

Displaying is the easy part. What camera are you using?

(Actually I do not know what I am talking about. Just seems that TV/Movie camera filming in 3d might be difficult.)

JChristopher

The plot thinnens.

MagnoliaBoy

So thin that if God ran his finger across the top he will indeed be cut and bleeding. Sony ftw. blood ftw

ichi1

@Muttonchops: Engadget is also reporting 0.3mm...

Log1c

patience will pay

mpar

Its supposed to be 3 mm. 0.3 mm is a little less than one third of a mm. Giz has made this mistake before.

Muttonchops

Wow, i can't imagine how much that must cost right now. But 5 years from now, i'll have one!

wolfenstein-3d

Now Sony is just showing off. How rude.

So, all I need is four of these bad boys (and win the lottery) and I have my new OLED TV.

Monty

I thought the future was suppose to be cheap?

Earthslide

It might be priced like crazy... but remember plasma's & LCD's were too when they first came out... I once contemplated buying a 20" LCD tv for $1000!!!!

Maksimir

ill NOT be satisfied until my screen is ONLY a SINGLE photon in depth, thats right ONE PHOTON!!!

then i cant have 3D ... ;( sad day, sad day indeed.

why wont anyone stack pixels to create depth of field?

shadymilkman

@Karinabob: Large corporations typically don't tell retail sales people about secret products.

Canadian Impostor

Once again, I don't see why anyone would care if they made it thicker. Only that they made size bigger. 52"+ please!

Noobs-R-Us

@kahri: Of course it will be too thick in the future, compared to holographic projection.

ripfire4

I think we've arrived at the peak of thinness, at least for me. I don't see anyone saying "My 0.3mm screen is just too thick, when will the 0.3nanometer screens come out?"

kahri

I'd rather they develop a decent, 30 mm thick screen that's priced under five hundred. Now that would be amazing.

Miranda Kali

Once again, we at Sony didn't even know about this one. Cool beans! Now I have something to tell my customers when they ask if the OLED is ever going to get any bigger!

Karinabob

*God rays* aaaaAAAAhhhhhHHHHHHaaaaa..... Awesome. Man I wish I was loaded.

Is it actually 0.3 mm or 3.0 mm, because the first is card thickness, the other is 10x card thickness. Also wouldn't they have to protect the shit out of a 0.3 mm screen? Couldn't I just snap that by breathing on it?

Log1c

Aahh. 0.3mm. Now that's definitely the thickness of a playing card. If you say 300um it sounds even thinner.

ripfire4

Jeez....and to think just 10 years ago we had 300 pound tv's with 5 feet deep cabinets.

Moore's Law FTW

jayhawk11

What... the hell am I looking at here?

HonusWScruggs

This technology will be at an available price in 2015. The TV is 0.3 mm, but it has a casing that is like 1.5mm. It's still thin, but not exactly 0.3mm.

Anyways in my country it will be like twice its price and will be available for the riches only.

Nicaragua FTW!

Visit_Nicaragua

Please tell me how A tv like this is beneficial? Isn't it like extreamly easy to just snap this tv?

DJTripleRRR

Sony's new 0.3mm screen: it can give you fuckin paper cut...

Jitty