OLED TV Reviews are negative for the Sony XEL-1

DisplaySearch has come up with some interesting numbers that reflect badly on the Sony XEL-1 OLED TV. In the most negative OLED TV review so far, they state that Sony’s lifetime claims for the OLED panel are far too high.

According to EETimes.com, the RGB architecture is very sensitive to the image, and has a 5,000-hour lifetime for white and a 17,000-hour lifetime for a typical video image–these numbers are well below the  specifications published by Sony.

The panel also suffers from differential aging. This has been a worry in the past but Sony was thought to have fixed this problem. Apparently not because after 1000 hours the blue luminance degraded by 12 percent, the red luminance by 7 percent and the green luminance by 8 percent.

Sony will have a bit of work to do to recover from this problem, but I’m sure they will. Remember however, the XEL-1 is the first model in the first generation of OLED TV’s. I still give them credit for bringing out the first OLED TV.