I Bought the World’s First OLED TV from 2008!

If i remember correctly, this is 1/4 of a 22" professional monitor by Sony...which cost upwards of $20 grand, so spot on

James shot 20 sponsor segments at the same spot 😂😂😂

When I worked at Circuit City my boss had this and we watched Fantastic Four on it. What a time to be alive.

is quite fascinating, showcasing the rapid advancement in technology over the past decade and a half. OLED technology, which was groundbreaking back in 2008, has since become a standard in high-end televisions and various other display technologies.

I still remember working in a small electronics shop in Germany. We received a sample from Sony, and we displayed it with a ridiculously high sticker price. Surprisingly, someone really wanted to buy it. We had to get permission from Sony to sell it because it wasn't actually intended for sale at that point.

How many times do you think Linus has said "boy does it ever look good" in his career?

I remember when we from the professional and broadcast side of Sony were briefed on that exact TV and technology. The opinion at the time was that the end result is great, but the natural deterioration of the organic component of the OLED (?) made larger screens impractical/impossible. Sony hit a wall in its R&D and apparently the larger screen were failing noticeably after 6 months. They did persevere for a while though, but ultimately abandoned OLED. They were quite dismissive internally of LG picking up the tech, and the attitude was more along the lines "we dodged a bullet, watch LG losing money on this". To be fair this was happening when Sony was already considering bowing out of the screen manufacturing business and sold off a lot of its tech to Samsung and LG. Forward a few years later and they became one of the main promoter of OLED in the pro space (using panels from LG).

I remember when this was all over the cover and the featured article for Popular Sciences best inventions of that year. It was absolutely crazy at the time.

Thats not an OLED TV thats an ᴼᴸᴱᴰ ᵀⱽ

Actually. We all need to thank Mr Nakamura. The guy who, against all odds, relentlessly found a way to create a blue LED. Also: Remarkable that there was no noticeable burn-in on that old display.

You should try to buy the worlds first plasma tv next!!!

I remember reading the news when it was announced!!! Soon after, a flagship television newscast from Brazil started using it, and most impressively, it is still in use to this day!!

Linus with the “what’s up brother”

XEL 1+Ps Vita+Raspberry Pi HDMI out=Sony Heaven

9:46 Surely you mean pillarboxed rather than letterboxed?

You had the most perfect opportunity to recreate the plasma tv scene from the office and let it just sail by.

I worked at the Sony store in Providence, RI during college and I fell in love with this thing. We had it in the store and it played Meet the Robinsons on repeat all day everyday and from that point on, I've been an OLED enthusiast. What a blast from the past!

Crazy that now OLED is standard in many laptop screens. 2008 doesn't even feel that long ago

Sony had an 11" OLED in 2008, the smallest OLED TV you get today is 42 inches, with a large number of people still in need of 40 and 32 inches for CRT cabinets as well as 12V 24 inches for campers. Some of those TVs are still HD ready (1366x768), I'd guess they get cut from bigger LCDs with a lot of defects.

I’m liking the TechMoan inspired direction for the channel honestly