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Thanks for nothing Sony...

Odd that no one has picked up on the fact that it's on sale in the US for half the price....welcome to rip off Britain........

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want....

want one..want one...want one...who's the blond?...want one...want one...

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how much?

i actually shouted out expletives when i found out how high the price wsa...i think ill wait a few years till they make a 50 inch one before i have a heart attack

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RE: Stop all the Moaning

AC, if you bought a first generation LaserDisc Player it was likely a Philips or Pioneer and built like a tank. Unless the Helium-neon laser tube gave out last year or so it likely still works like a charm. Same for the "expensive" movies. Yes, they cost more than Blu-ray does today, but they were BIG, had no DRM or ARM whatsoever and demanded a cleanroom to be made. Which is why they don't die either. Unless you bought those rotters that came out of SONY plants, as even back then SONY was unable to make something that doesn't break within a year or two.

When flatscreens came to market, they were the size of big-screen tubes or bigger. The issue with this TV is that while the technology might be amazing (hardly anyone knows because you need to see them in person) it is overall a pointless desk toy for managers. This is not the 50s where you would put a dedicated chair in front of the tube at two feet distance and oh-ah at the novelty. This 11inch screen is just a tech-demo gone commercial. They can come back once its 40"+, half the price, and someone can tell how fast those OLEDs crap out.

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@Richard Lloyd

11" isn't big enough for the bedroom? You've been spoilt...

For 3k I'd expect the same pixel density and response rate as the eMagin 1/2" HMD screens. And they've just hit SXGA so that'd be hundreds of megapixels on an 11" screen with nS refresh times. Now THAT would be worth the money for the bragging rights. "Oh, look at my TV- non of that HDReady crap, this is Full HD!" "Oh, really? Mine's a higher resolution than real life."

Also,according to a commenter they're saying 1ms response rates- isn't this really slow for an OLED?

Overall, some sort of serious fail for Sony on this one.

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