Sony's much-hyped XEL-1 OLED TV was debuted at CES this year and has since garnered plenty of attention and no small amount of praise. Impressive considering it's only got an 11in screen.
But things may not be quite so rosy if an independent investigation by Displaysearch proves to be true.
Testing the lifespan of OLED, the company ran two XEL-1 screens alongside each other for 1,000 hours before measuring the change in brightness. Crunching numbers, the company worked out the screen lifespan to be around 17,000 hours - or 5.8 years at eight hours a day - which may seem like plenty, but is near half of Sony's 30,000-hour claim.
Sony is standing by its own figure saying it has years of testing to back it up, but this still keeps the longevity of OLED as a technology in the spotlight.
And at $2,500 for the 11in XEL-1, we'd want to know it was going to last long enough to get our money's worth.
www.displaysearch.com
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