Sony Contrast Flexible Oled Laptop Concept: Yes, Please, Yes, Please

KingDL1 · January 16, 2009

the video is pretty astonishing.

forevereagle · January 16, 2009

Sony Flexible OLED Laptop
the video is pretty astonishing.

There may be a disconnect between concept and reality. The wonders of CG are at work here. I wouldn't be too excited about this just yet. Sony is notorious about making promises that either never come about, or that are not available until much later.

Look at the PS3 and Blu-Ray. Home for the PS3 was something that was promised from the beginning, but still has not been released. Blu-Ray was promised to be able to hold enormous amounts of data through having 8+ layers of data. Depsite that promise, they have yet to make good and we have Blu-Ray movies with two discs. They also touted features that would be available, but are still unavailable, or just now hitting the shelf. The quality is there, but they have just made promises that they were unprepared to deliver.

meangreendork · January 16, 2009

There may be a disconnect between concept and reality. The wonders of CG are at work here. I wouldn't be too excited about this just yet. Sony is notorious about making promises that either never come about, or that are not available until much later.
Look at the PS3 and Blu-Ray. Home for the PS3 was something that was promised from the beginning, but still has not been released. Blu-Ray was promised to be able to hold enormous amounts of data through having 8+ layers of data. Depsite that promise, they have yet to make good and we have Blu-Ray movies with two discs. They also touted features that would be available, but are still unavailable, or just now hitting the shelf. The quality is there, but they have just made promises that they were unprepared to deliver.

Wait, wait, what?

PSHome is out and in open beta. Heck, I was in it during closed beta, too. Mind you, it's basically SecondLife with an online gaming component and an open market for advertising, but that's all it boiled down to anyways. The BluRay disc (as far as I know) was made to only run with 2 layers max anyways. All I read about the 200GB 8-layer discs was protoyping/concept/demo stuff anyways. I know some other companies like Hitachi and Pioneer are looking at 400GB discs and whatnot, but that's really impractical. Anything that big really should be on an HDD of some sort as a movie with uncompressed 7.1ch sound and in HD really doesn't take up enough data to need a 400GB or even 200GB disc. As for two-disc Blu-Ray sets, the 2nd disc is a digital copy and those are for DRM reasons, not storage space.

On topic though - that concept is a long-ways away. Beyond making the OLED technology functional (which it is already), you also have to look at how the actual computing will be done. That's probably the BIG step that has to be made for this to hit mass market. But man, it'll be awesome when it does.