It proberly was a run to see the production costs, yields, and consumer needs. 11" was just a test to see if viable to ramp upto a larger panel. Remember most flat tft screen which are largs are made from 19", 22" and now 32" and 40" glue to get in portrait mode. Philips invented the micro glue to do this, until then they could not get yields for large screens. These 11" proberly in idea to ne glue together 3x i portriat mode to make a larger screen was the plan, but was considered to expensive for comsumers to buy, thus the return to expensive to setup production. Thus did not happen with 11' screens, and project dropped.
Oh wow. I'm not alone in loving these. I worked at a Sony Centre store(dedicated Sony stores) in Melbourne Australia in 2008-10 and fell in love with our display model. Here the price was $aus6990 so well out of my league. I sold one to a customer, which no one had been able to do due to price, so my boss ended up giving me an awesome deal on our display unit. I have had it as my bedside TV ever since. It's lucky to get a few hours use most days and shows no signs of dimming. No issues with burn in either. My remote has extra buttons but TV doesn't have card slot though. The picture quality is stunning. Anyway loved the video and glad I'm not the only who geeks out over these TVs.
Oh man I used to love going to Sony Centres as a kid, it was honestly a treat I wonder if I came across this TV back then and just looked past it cause it was little haha
@Janine Kaempfert like all TVs, picture quality, colour accuracy, shadow detail, true blacks. The fact it looks cool and is 3mm thick just add to that in my opinion
@@Utkarsh_A Was a long time ago and I'm sure the boss had written it down as display model. I was a gun salesman(#1 in store) and so I think he looked after me. I'd rather not say as doesn't really matter anymore. Was very cheap
My local Wal-Mart had a 32" Sony LCD TV attached to a PS3 circa 2006. Totally blew me away at the time and convinced me to upgrade to HDTV. I didn't buy a Sony though because they were so much more expensive than other brands for given size and specs. I bought a Dell 37" LCD TV of all things! Good combinations of specs, size and price though! And a 60GB PS3 which got more playtime than any console I'd owned previously.
@@CharlesP2009 It really is amazing how far the TV and graphical fidelity in general have come in the last couple of decades. Now we have curved and even some companies toying with transparent televisions.
This channel and Tech Connections are the best! Loved the CED and fall of RCA content. Love how niche interest content is easily found, unlike pre-TH-cam.
Only today I've noticed that in the desk for Brazil's most watched, primetime newscast "Jornal Nacional", aired on Rede Globo, there are two XEL-1s, one for each presenter. Their bases are hidden below the top of the desk, but you can clearly distinguish the hinge, the silver back and the sleeker top part of the display. Goes to show that their reliability is actually quite good, since they've been used there for at least 10 years now! It's amazing to think that millions of Brazilians see one of the rarest, most important displays of the century and will never know how important they are
Oh man this video brought back a flood of memories, I saw the thumbnail and instantly knew what it was despite it being out of my mind for 13 years. I remember seeing one around 2007 at a tech exhibition. I'm fairly sure it was Epcot or somewhere like that, playing clips from a yet-to-be-released pixar film which turned out to be Wall-E. I remember a crowd of people gathering round it, being in absolute awe of how thin it was and how vibrant the film looked in that dimly lit room. It absolutely fascinated me as a nerdy 9 year old given that at home we had a 'flatscreen' Bravia HD ready TV which in reality was about 4 inches thick and ridiculously heavy. I had to be dragged away from reading all the info sheets because I was so fascinated by this amazing new tech. God is this what nostalgia feels like?
4 inch thick Full HD Sony Bravia, that's so familiar... My parents bought me one as kid, so i could watch TV in my own room. It was kinda hell as expensive at the time, especially by Russian terms... Now it's impossible to imagine my family buying same class electronics, as rouble inflated in almost 4 times since 2000's... So much good memories, entwined with this TV. They were great flat screens, i still use it time to time!
So you're 22? That's a very mild version of nostalgia. It gets stronger with age. I'm 41, I can only imagine how it is at, say, 80. Must be why old people are always talking about the past.
Just last Christmas we replaced our 46" Sharp Aquos that we bought in 2007. The picture was 1080i. We now have a 55" Samsung in 4k that cost about a third as much as the Sharp.
Techmoan itself will end up as an iconic piece of technology history that will end up in a future museum alongside this tv. Maybe there will be a degree on Techmoan covering the phrases he used and change of presenter appearance over time.
IHe paid for it 1500USD on ebay before shipping to UK and UK import tax, i can even name the seller and the listing. If he was ready to pay so much, i bet its worth it, he makes more back from YT ads, or he just an old guy that does it for fun.
@@rkan2 True, true, I'm having memories of playing Halo 3 on a big ol CRT TV that used to be the living room TV, because my dad had just got a Plasma TV for the livingroom. It was probably 5 years later I got a modest little LCD and had to drag the old CRT beast out, that plasma TV still works too, we just gave it to someone else last year after getting a bigger 4K Samsung, so to see an OLED in 2007 is pretty wild
Very cool you were able to find a new one! Total time capsule!! Love the design of the base and overall look. I sure miss the high end Sony and Sony ES equipment of years past...
I love me some Williston Audio Labs channel... Pretty amusing to see so many people on TH-cam with channels also watch or interested in other channels I watch as well... Love you guys and always a pleasure to watch y'all. Have a wonderful day y'all!!! ☺️
The first thing that sprung up in my mind when I heard 960x540 resolution. PS Vita. My favourite platform to develop for, I am still big fanboy like in 2011.
Funny that you mention that, because even today thanks to poverty I still have to resort to using my Vita to watch TH-cam. Not the OLED model sadly, just the cheap, crummy LCD model that constantly slips outta my hands and has fallen too many times to be functional for gaming anymore, ironically enough.
Watched the video and wanted to check the availabillty of this TV set in Belgium. To my surprise these nifty TV’s are still readily available for a mere 500 euros. So I ordered one and the shop is not even charging me anything for shipping. Nice! Thank you for the video. If there are more enthousiasts - look no further.
I can’t begin to tell you how excited I was when I saw this video description pop up on my recommendation list. You brought up a lot of nostalgia for me with this one. I actually worked in Sony’s retail stores in America during this time and I sold quite a few of these units. I remember wanting to get one of these for myself so badly. All the well to dos and movers and shakers of the area were buying them from me left and right. It was a fun time. Drop a line if you’d like I’ve got plenty of stories from those days.
3 minutes in and I was thinking, "Aww it would be amazing if he had one to demonstrate" then I realiseed, "Hold on this is Techmoan, of course he's got one or he wouldn't make the video!"
I remember seeing this TV at a Sony Store and was blown away by the picture and price. Crazy how I'm using a 55inch oled that cost less than half the price.
I remember seeing this in the Sony store at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles. My friend and I laughed at the price and said "Wait 10yrs for the big screen version"
I remember my laptop in 2002ish having a higher res screen than HD. Once hdtvs came out laptop panels all seemed to become lower res, but marketed as better somehow. We had the tech to create 4k TVs for some time, broadcast standards held us back it seems. Probably plays into why they are not that expensive now.
Oh my god, I remember when these came out. And the Sony store had a bunch of samples on display, it was so incredible seeing these things actually for sale, years after my mom worked on the original OLED displays for some fighter jet project. So glad to see you reviewing this thing, and it's just as cool as I remember.
so so the one with glass boarder are much cooler.. this is why i dont buy sony after their FAT TV... since i had build and we gave a lot of them to apartment unit... it was really just reliable...
Techmoan: Talks about how hard and unlikely it is to get ones hands on this TV Also Techmoan: Pulls out time machine > They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
I find it fascinating that the comedy only ever comes out of the puppets. Techmoan himself is very straight man but clearly has this comedy in him. I'd love to see him let that out in the main videos.
@@GeordyLad67 Thanks for trying to derail a conversation about comedy puppets. I especially enjoyed the spelling mistake and the "stream of consciousness rambling" aspects.
I dunno, if I had a time machine, I'd probably go back to 1981 and buy a boatload of Apple stock or something. After I assassinate Hitler in the early '30s and leave a warning about 9/11...
@@Syncopator ahhh but would apple stock exist if you had assassinated Hitler as technological developments were pushed by leaps and bounds in WW2? :-))
He has. I just don't remember what video. I think it was his one a while ago on a/c and swamp coolers. I dont think he showed him though, he just mentioned him.
It makes me very happy to see you happy about finding one those “bucket list” items. I know the feeling myself & the emotion definitely came across on screen! 🤗
You never cease to amaze me, Just as I start to think you're going to run out of original ideas for content you just ramp it up a notch and blow me away again.
I remember this!!! Gosh I'm such a nerd, so glad I found this channel. Well done for finally finding this! Also nice job sneaking in Tech Connections guy!
I remembering going to a Sony store at a mall by me to look at one of these. I was amazed by how slim it was and being mesmerized by the colors it produced. I think got a Zune HD with a small OLED in it that I thought was so cool at the time! Amazing how technology is still changing so much each year.
I remember seeing this is the Sony store and thinking how will this technology ever be affordable. I was actually just telling a younger guy at work about it. He's in his 20's blew his mind. I can't wait to show him this video.
Thanks for reminding me about this really gorgeous TV set! Nice and humourus like always. Please keep doing this kind of reviews. Loving it. We used to have the Sony XEL-1 in german its german version in the shop where I am working. We used it not actually to sell itself, but we demonstrated since 2010 already to our customers what will be the future best technology for TV screens to come. It has the similar good features like pioneers or Panasonics Plasms screens, but much thinner and lighter and even better black and viewing angle - and less power consumtion of course. In 2015 our local TV station needed some footage about old CRT TVs vs. more modern ones with flatscreen. The feature was about a guy in the city next to ours who’s collecting veeery old TV sets. They filmed in March 2015 in our shop and seemed to be quite fond of the XEL-1, too. They put it next to an antique red mini CRT tele on the counter where I was sitting in the background and gave it quite a lot of airing time then when it was broadcasted in May. Though it is in German language you might enjoy viewing it. I found the recording in my old dmr-bst730 and put it on yt recently, from 2:49 they are in our shop th-cam.com/video/LqKSGG5_b1g/w-d-xo.html. Cheers and thanks again for your good work!
At university my housemate's father worked for sony. In our house we ended up with what I think was a trinitron. It was 60+ inches, some sort of plasma technology, definitely not crt, but also not very thin by todays standards, and you could split the screen and watch up to 4 different channels at once. It was amazing.
Glad you got one. I remember them coming out and not thinking too much about it, but I can appreciate that you enjoy it the same way I enjoy kickstarting my motorcycle. Fun to see Rich and such on there.
Which one was that, the one on Oxford St? My mate and I used to go in there and chuckle at the prices of the bigass TV's around 2003 when plasmas were becoming a thing.
Design-wise, it feels like the early-2000s equivalent of the JVC Videosphere. I mean, obviously they look nothing like each other, but they both give off that swing-and-a-miss futuristic design vibe. It's always fun looking at what someone thought things would look like in ten years from more than ten years later. :)
An iconic television? The Philco Predicta. It defines the 1950s futurism/optimism aesthetic in my opinion. Not built particularly well though, from what I understand. Looks really cool though. :) Edit: Okay, so I should have just kept watching before commenting. LOL
You finally found one of your unicorns. I remember these when they were first announced and thought they were going to be the future of tv. Now they have standard LED tv’s with almost as good contrast as these without all the problems of OLED. Strange when I think back over the last 46 years of my life and see how far technology has come in my lifetime.
Crazy thing is, I saw one of these when it came out at the Sony store in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada! I was amazed when I saw it! They had it behind a glass enclosure so people couldn't touch it.
Many congratulations on picking up a new one of these. I can remember exactly when I saw one on sale as I was in Las Vegas to celebrate my 40th (12 years ago) and it was in an electronics shop near Cesars Palace!
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1:13 it's funny: When Matt said "classical TV" I was imidiately thinking "Philco Predicta". A more modern classic could be Bang & Olufsen Beovision Avant.
Gotcha! But which Beovision Avant do you mean? I would say most iconic would the mid/late 90ies one with the optional VHS recorder. Or did you mean the 4K 75" one? Pretty sure there were more than one Predicta model as well. I was thinking of the Nordemende Spectra Color Studio but probably couldn't name it if I would be asked. I predict the new b&o Beovision Harmony or LG OLED65RX (if released) will fit this list perfectly. BTW. Never heared of the Bosch TV 22. The Bosch TV division was known as Fernseh AG or FESE for short from 1929 on. Must be a mechanical TV than.
@@Troppa17 Yeah, Predicta was my first thought, and there were a few versions, including a few different floorstanding ones (see here: www.wallswithstories.com/interior/philco-predicta.html). I'd seen them around at antique shops at one time, but were either in not that great of shape, or were more than I wanted to pay. Eventually, I found an incredibly good condition 1952 Westinghouse Stratovision H-700T17 17" model in blonde wood with the matching lazy-suzan table. Even has an old TV repair shop sticker on the back. Looks and works great and I've been known to pipe some Honeymooners or other old TV shows on DVD into it through an RF modulator. It's no Predicta but it's very nice and was a lot more affordable and totally has a vintage feel. I also picked up a Hallicrafters 7" round tube set from 1947 that I found at a junk shop eons ago. It has a push button tuner with channel 1 (channel 1 was in the earliest TVs, but it was phased out in 1948). When I got it, it had a burnt out filament in the picture tube but most of those 7" models all used the same 7" white phosphor oscilloscope tube so it wasn't all that hard to find a replacement. However, the problem with some cheaper made tube TVs such as that one, is they would run all the tubes in a single series string across the line voltage, to save the cost of a filament transformer-- and the problem with that is, when warming up, the resistance of the various tubes changes until it stabilizes and the picture tube filament can get hammered by over current until it does, thereby reducing the life of the tube, which is probably why this one was bad. So I've been planning to see if I can throw a couple of zener diodes across the picture tube filament to protect the replacement tube from that, and the thing has seen better days, but it would look like this in good shape: radioattic.com/item.htm?radio=1310036 Given I've got those two antiques, it seems that collecting a Predicta, as nice as they are, would be more costly than it's worth to me. Unlike Techmoan, I don't feel the need to "collect them all" - somebody's got to do it but it doesn't have to be me... :-)
@@Syncopator Two very nice TV models. The Hallicrafters 7" appeals a little more to me but thats only my preference. Maybe because the Westinghouse Stratovision reminds me on a Grundig TV my grandpa had. Back in the day a friend of mine and I rescued an old Grundig 610 (www.alamy.com/stock-photo-broadcast-television-television-set-first-grundig-television-console-48416583.html) literally from the ewaste but unfourntly a tree fell onto what was my working shed back then and smashed the TV unit and my workbench (including the soldering iron my grandpa gave to me which was back than more important to me...) into pieces. That was a very sad day. It was very beat up before but after that I could only save 2 tubes of which I gave one to my friend. Yeah, I see it now more like you I can't collect everything. I originally referred to what I thought was a original Predicta. I saw it once on display in an design store in the Belgium or the Netherlands. (can't remember) But now I - thanks to you - know it was a reproduction by Telstar (www.johnmoran.com/auction-lot/a-telstar-predicta-chalet-television-set_0544E5E8F2)
Wow, this is a surprise and thank you for this video. I have two sets, one that I use for my switch and the other one is stored away. Build quality is good, yet you have to be careful of the panel separating from the hinge....nice huh? LOL. Both were purchased second hand and working fine to this day. I always get comments when ever someone stops by and sees it. I really love your channel and the vintage gear that you purchase and review. Many of them are on my “wish list.” Thanks again and take care. Cheers.
Face it and we live in happy times as this prediction is very likely true. Hopefully, the madman still in oval office does not realise he can end this for all of us and bail out of courts. I going to miss new videos than though. On the other hand my prediction is in the same range.
So it has been sunny day. Going outdoors with my two beautiful daughters. Nice to wrap up a day with techmoan video. Going to sleep with a smile. Well no.. :'(
On the bright side, you could have a heart attack tonight on the toilet, or get hit by a car tomorrow! So he could outlive you, and you wouldn't have to endure the tragedy of his death.
I remember seeing this TV in the Sony store in Shibuya when it was brand new. I wanted one so freaking bad. The contrast was unlike anything I had ever seen in a flat screen. There was a really cool store display there showing how they used the concepts of lightning bugs and other photo luminescent insects to invent the OLED.
Oh, wow. This reminds me of when *LGR* opened a NIB NOS IBM PC AT. No wonder you're dressed up-it's a special unboxing. Loved the puppets, as always. (10:30) When I saw the TH-cam buffering circle on-screen, I sat up to correct the issue until I realized that there wasn't any display problem on my end, it was just a recording. (10:53) *Technology Connections* is also here that we may better appreciate forced-air furnaces.
Because they always half ass it and then nickel and dime consumers. They are a trash company other than playstation. Bought a 900xe and have never hated a tv so much.
@@sealmeatisbestmeat1241 Oh, but I have never had any issues with Sony devices. I know, they are a little bit expensive. I have had 2 Sony phones (one I am using ryt now). An Xperia L and an Xperia M2. First one stopped working 2 weeks ago since my little brother always drops it (accidentally). It was bought around 7 years ago. The M2 is still going solid, even though the screen's glass broke and some parts of the circuitry lay exposed. It was the fisr and last time this phone was dropped. My bro came running towards me and his hand hit my hand with which I was holding the phone (it was a really bad throw). The only problem is the software. Sony gave the last update in 2018. The phone was bought 6 years ago.
@@kunjupulla I had an M5 before I went back to Nokia. It had a really horrible accident that shattered anything glass, yet I can hear it power-up, but without any display I can't see if it works or just powers up.
My store at the time "tweeter" has one of these on display. We thought the price would never come down. Sure, in 2020 you can get a phone with oled screen in any corner drug store but in 2008 they were a little hard to come by
Love your use of the Back to the Future reference LoL
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I remember seeing this at a local electronics store. The technology was so cool. I knew I wanted a TV like that ...when they got a bit bigger and cheaper. And now, after more than ten years, I finally have an OLED TV I'm very happy with. :)
12:50 Funny enough, that navigation screen looks almost exactly like the one on my family's Sony Blu-Ray DVD player, circa 2010. The one we bought was one of the first affordable Blu-Ray players to have built-in streaming services (these were discontinued by Sony a couple years ago, plus, TH-cam took ~5 min to load and 5 more to search for something). Still plays DVDs surprisingly smoothly since the ones from the library are usually very scratched and would trip up our old Samsung player.
Remember in 2007 when I got my Zune hd I was fascinated with oled and this was the only one .... amazing to see it for once, also I own an LG oled all these years later best choice I’ve ever made
@@johndododoe1411 as you probably know they don’t make them anymore 😂 ... but amazingly The Oled and UI hold up well in 2021. Still no burn in on either devices
Thanks for the video. I saw one of these in a Sony Store in Calgary, Canada in the early 2000's and was in awe. The salesperson took our high school aged crew in to the demo room in the back and we watched an Iron Maiden concert on their latest gear. I'm just waiting for an OLED to come in to a working person's price range in NA and I can make the dream of owning an OLED panel come true.
I remember when Sony released this. I worked at an electronics store at a shopping mall, and while we didn't sell this TV, there was a Sony store down the corridor which did. It was a neat little thing, but then suddenly it was gone and the whole notion of OLED TVs seemed to vanish. Years later, we saw the first LG OLED TVs, which were actually a usable size, incredibly thin, and stunning to look at. They were, however, still very expensive. Finally, in 2019, when the prices dropped comfortably below $2000 (Canadian) I got myself a 55" LG B9 and I love it. Fantastic technology, and whenever somebody visits my place they remark at how thin my TV is. Thanks for highlighting this often-forgotten TV. It's a fascinating little milestone in the advancements of displays.
Had the same excitement/fear when I finally tracked down a NOS still factory sealed in box Pioneer kuro to replace my old faithful set. Fortunately it worked out well, it's a beauty 👍🍻
I have watched a lot of your videos but I'm not sure I've ever seen you look quite so excited. You looked like I felt when I bought my last car. I was really excited but also a bit nervous about whether I'd made a mistake and it would turn out to be a disappointment. It didn't for me and it's clear that it didn't for you. Jolly good.
Great! We had it in store, when I started as a hifi salesman. They sold one orginally packed and also the shop display within several days around Christmas 2008. Funny thing - I really thought about getting one for watching youtube in 720 or DVD and the like, because of it's size, resolution, quality and dimensions. Everything would look great on this tiny screen. But the price, the price, and the years... I am amazed that you managed to get one out of the box... lucky you!
That sample picture at 13:00 is almost certainly from the Japanese Alps, most likely from the Nagano prefecture, probably from the area just north of Matsumoto town were the samurai era Shinano Way road existed in ancient times. There is a famous 1977 top hit song about a girl returning to her parental home in that area, riding on the train named Azusa with train number 2 from Tokyo at 8 AM the next day, with... her new lover... instead of her current lover who she is bidding farewell throughout those lyrics. (Between the lines: she will show her parents her new lover to get him approved as her suitable future husband... so SAD for her current lover to be abruptly dumped just like this - he was nice but he didn't measure up in the end). You can see this picture: th-cam.com/video/1rtBYO083BM/w-d-xo.html snapped at the very same spot, just before the video shows the station where she gets down from the train according to the lyrics. So Techmoan's sample picture must have been snapped in the vicinity of that train station? (Shinano-Ōmachi Station)
I think you have the wrong video, it's a series of still shots with music under, and no pictures of the front of electronics stores. It looks like a train station instead, far away from any city that would be selling this expensive little OLED TV. It looks all very rural. There is no moving video at all. It keeps showing the front of a train and mountain views with some guy singing to the music. I'm guessing this is the song about the woman dumping the guy. I do remember reading articles about this TV, I didn't realize it was only 11", I always thought it was closer to 17". Like a medium sized computer CRT at the time. It's interesting the store display Techmoan shows reminds you of this song. Our memories can bring up some odd connections at times! Or should I say Technology Connections!
You know, it's funny that the Philco Predicta came up in the muppet segment, because to my eyes, this almost feels like a modern interpretation of the Predicta. The floating screen, the controls mounted in the base... it feels like the Predicta of the late 00s. Its also interesting to think about it like that because it shows just how much TV design changed in 50 years, of course.
I remember seeing one of these for sale in J&R electronics while on holidays in NY. I remember being struck how vivid the colours were at the time. I bought a Sony vaio laptop the same visit, a good days outing.
When this video started, my memory glands were firing, and I thought “Didn’t this have something like a 13” screen for some ridiculous price?” Turns out it was only 11”. Maybe it was for the rear seats of a premiership footballer’s Range Rover?
I have a Tomorrow's World magazine from 1998 kicking about somewhere (on the other side of the world) with a blurb about the first plasma TV, it wasn't much shalllower than a CRT, was built in to it's own stand, and cost £15,000! Given the time it was from I doubt it was HD ready either, that's one expensive paperweight.
@@worldcomicsreview354 my dads company got the first shipment of plasmas to the US, the were like 40 inches and 6 to 8 inches thick. The were only SD and were just a monitor no TV tuner or anything. They were like $15,000 each IIRC - I was kinda young and it was a while ago
@@worldcomicsreview354 I can remember seeing a massive set that I think was a plasma TV in somewhere like John Lewis or maybe Selfridge's, in the West End of London, that had been reduced from £24,000 to a mere £12,000. I guess that was only a short while after the turn of the century. From memory, it either wasn't turned on, or they'd done that annoying shop thing of "showing off" the display with a mistuned picture in the wrong aspect ratio... 🙄
Thank you for the awesome videos. I really miss the CC. It's great for use at work, at night, and when missing a word it's easy to look down and see it.
Watching this on my ~47 inch viewable Bravia TV from around the same time. Yeah, menus are very similar, but mine are laid out with primarily vertical scrolling expansion. I use it as my main home computer's display too. Been working great for all these years. Cheers.
I would like to point out, this wasn't technically the end of Sony's OLED involvement. The PlayStation Vita launched with an OLED screen in 2011, before being replaced with an LCD model in 2013.
That uses a Samsung panel. They also have OLED TVs, but those use LG panels. Their mirrorless cameras also use high PPI OLEDs for their EVFs, not sure if Sony makes those.
Lot of good channels in Techmoan's sub feed I see. I'd also agree with Ben's comment about paying for what is essentially a "binned" display except in this situation binned was just working as intended and not above a margin of performance loss expectation. For every X number of panels you get a single solid panel, and on something so new/limited like this you're basically buying a handful of displays for a single unit on each purchase.
The high price is because of bad yields on such a cutting edge display. You're paying for all the ones that ended up in the trash, not in the box.
Yes. It's just like a new process in CPUs.
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That's fine, but they made British customers literally pay twice as much (and closer to 3x) as American buyers for the same display.
It proberly was a run to see the production costs, yields, and consumer needs. 11" was just a test to see if viable to ramp upto a larger panel.
Remember most flat tft screen which are largs are made from 19", 22" and now 32" and 40" glue to get in portrait mode. Philips invented the micro glue to do this, until then they could not get yields for large screens. These 11" proberly in idea to ne glue together 3x i portriat mode to make a larger screen was the plan, but was considered to expensive for comsumers to buy, thus the return to expensive to setup production. Thus did not happen with 11' screens, and project dropped.
Oh wow. I'm not alone in loving these. I worked at a Sony Centre store(dedicated Sony stores) in Melbourne Australia in 2008-10 and fell in love with our display model. Here the price was $aus6990 so well out of my league. I sold one to a customer, which no one had been able to do due to price, so my boss ended up giving me an awesome deal on our display unit. I have had it as my bedside TV ever since. It's lucky to get a few hours use most days and shows no signs of dimming. No issues with burn in either. My remote has extra buttons but TV doesn't have card slot though. The picture quality is stunning. Anyway loved the video and glad I'm not the only who geeks out over these TVs.
Oh man I used to love going to Sony Centres as a kid, it was honestly a treat I wonder if I came across this TV back then and just looked past it cause it was little haha
@Janine Kaempfert like all TVs, picture quality, colour accuracy, shadow detail, true blacks. The fact it looks cool and is 3mm thick just add to that in my opinion
@@kewlhunter7333 what was the discounted price if you don't mind me asking for the floor unit
@@Utkarsh_A Was a long time ago and I'm sure the boss had written it down as display model. I was a gun salesman(#1 in store) and so I think he looked after me. I'd rather not say as doesn't really matter anymore. Was very cheap
Incredible! These days $5000 Canadian will get you a 65" LG 4K OLED! We've come quite a ways actually now I think about it.
I used to go to the Sony Store to look at this TV wherever I went to the mall. Amazing I still think about it to this day.
My local Wal-Mart had a 32" Sony LCD TV attached to a PS3 circa 2006. Totally blew me away at the time and convinced me to upgrade to HDTV. I didn't buy a Sony though because they were so much more expensive than other brands for given size and specs. I bought a Dell 37" LCD TV of all things! Good combinations of specs, size and price though! And a 60GB PS3 which got more playtime than any console I'd owned previously.
@@CharlesP2009 It really is amazing how far the TV and graphical fidelity in general have come in the last couple of decades. Now we have curved and even some companies toying with transparent televisions.
I still remember the Sony shops back then, before they closed em off some odd years later
@@CharlesP2009 when our phone now had more space than a old ps3... what a world we had come to...
@@campkira Some phones have more storage than a PS5 (667GB usable out of 825GB).
10:56 Nice for Technology Connetions, the one and only guy who I can listen 30min talking about home gas heaters without falling sleep
I watched the 90s Microwave video today. Still gold content. :)
@@nitehawk86 you havent lived until you've seen the one on lava lamps.
I was actually falling asleep in one of his 30 mins video, but I like that guy.
Dishwashers
This channel and Tech Connections are the best! Loved the CED and fall of RCA content. Love how niche interest content is easily found, unlike pre-TH-cam.
Only today I've noticed that in the desk for Brazil's most watched, primetime newscast "Jornal Nacional", aired on Rede Globo, there are two XEL-1s, one for each presenter. Their bases are hidden below the top of the desk, but you can clearly distinguish the hinge, the silver back and the sleeker top part of the display. Goes to show that their reliability is actually quite good, since they've been used there for at least 10 years now!
It's amazing to think that millions of Brazilians see one of the rarest, most important displays of the century and will never know how important they are
I’ve developed a Pavlovian drool response to the words “new old stock”. Enjoyed it, Matt!
I too have developed a similar reaction...
tho it's a lot less family friendly
@@alec4672 Yep! Those would both be examples of classical conditioning, heh
Lol
Oh man this video brought back a flood of memories, I saw the thumbnail and instantly knew what it was despite it being out of my mind for 13 years. I remember seeing one around 2007 at a tech exhibition. I'm fairly sure it was Epcot or somewhere like that, playing clips from a yet-to-be-released pixar film which turned out to be Wall-E. I remember a crowd of people gathering round it, being in absolute awe of how thin it was and how vibrant the film looked in that dimly lit room. It absolutely fascinated me as a nerdy 9 year old given that at home we had a 'flatscreen' Bravia HD ready TV which in reality was about 4 inches thick and ridiculously heavy. I had to be dragged away from reading all the info sheets because I was so fascinated by this amazing new tech. God is this what nostalgia feels like?
Yes my friend that is indeed a very strong feeling of nostalgia 😉
4 inch thick Full HD Sony Bravia, that's so familiar... My parents bought me one as kid, so i could watch TV in my own room. It was kinda hell as expensive at the time, especially by Russian terms... Now it's impossible to imagine my family buying same class electronics, as rouble inflated in almost 4 times since 2000's... So much good memories, entwined with this TV. They were great flat screens, i still use it time to time!
So you're 22? That's a very mild version of nostalgia. It gets stronger with age. I'm 41, I can only imagine how it is at, say, 80. Must be why old people are always talking about the past.
Just last Christmas we replaced our 46" Sharp Aquos that we bought in 2007. The picture was 1080i. We now have a 55" Samsung in 4k that cost about a third as much as the Sharp.
I was 1 in 2007. And our family had and still has THICC 2007 bravia
Techmoan itself will end up as an iconic piece of technology history that will end up in a future museum alongside this tv. Maybe there will be a degree on Techmoan covering the phrases he used and change of presenter appearance over time.
Agreed
@@RichardDKneller One day, our children will visit Mat at Madame Tussauds.
@@andreasu.3546 But definitely not made from wax, but from felty puppet material.
OLED is still being called “organic EL” in Japan
Oh I guess thats why the broadcast monitors are called Trimaster EL
"huh $2000 for a cutting edge TV, that's fairly reasona-"
"11 inch"
"oh"
I expected it to be small, but not *that* small.
IHe paid for it 1500USD on ebay before shipping to UK and UK import tax, i can even name the seller and the listing.
If he was ready to pay so much, i bet its worth it, he makes more back from YT ads, or he just an old guy that does it for fun.
@@not_on still, OLED in 2007, that's only just getting popular in common TVs the last handful of years
@@UNSCPILOT 2007 hardly had LCD TVs :P
@@rkan2 True, true, I'm having memories of playing Halo 3 on a big ol CRT TV that used to be the living room TV, because my dad had just got a Plasma TV for the livingroom.
It was probably 5 years later I got a modest little LCD and had to drag the old CRT beast out, that plasma TV still works too, we just gave it to someone else last year after getting a bigger 4K Samsung, so to see an OLED in 2007 is pretty wild
Seeing TechnologyConnections making an appearance made me feel funny inside.
same.
"Here is why my TV is better than your TV."
I thought it was a technology connections vid when I clicked on it tbh
It’s like two diffrent TV show universes randomly acknowledging each other.
and Fran. again. in the lab~
Very cool you were able to find a new one! Total time capsule!! Love the design of the base and overall look. I sure miss the high end Sony and Sony ES equipment of years past...
Sony's core business nowadays is the camera business.
I love me some Williston Audio Labs channel... Pretty amusing to see so many people on TH-cam with channels also watch or interested in other channels I watch as well... Love you guys and always a pleasure to watch y'all. Have a wonderful day y'all!!! ☺️
Big D Wiz and Techmoan collaboration confirmed!
I could only wish
@@tatsumaru12345 Yes please!! ☺️☺️☺️ I like how you think lol
I'm sure sony and others wouldn't agree
A few years after this, Sony ended up using a similar display for the Vita. The Vita OLED display was incredible at the time.
The 1000 model was a piece of art Id say for its time. Let down by its very own creator.
Still the best dpad Ive experienced on a portable
i like the buttons on the PSP 2001/3001 better but the vita isn't bad just tiny
The first thing that sprung up in my mind when I heard 960x540 resolution. PS Vita. My favourite platform to develop for, I am still big fanboy like in 2011.
@@jakublulek3261 The Vita has four more rows for 960x544 so it can display PSP games (480x272) by simply quadrupling every pixel.
Funny that you mention that, because even today thanks to poverty I still have to resort to using my Vita to watch TH-cam. Not the OLED model sadly, just the cheap, crummy LCD model that constantly slips outta my hands and has fallen too many times to be functional for gaming anymore, ironically enough.
Watched the video and wanted to check the availabillty of this TV set in Belgium. To my surprise these nifty TV’s are still readily available for a mere 500 euros. So I ordered one and the shop is not even charging me anything for shipping. Nice! Thank you for the video. If there are more enthousiasts - look no further.
I can’t begin to tell you how excited I was when I saw this video description pop up on my recommendation list.
You brought up a lot of nostalgia for me with this one.
I actually worked in Sony’s retail stores in America during this time and I sold quite a few of these units. I remember wanting to get one of these for myself so badly. All the well to dos and movers and shakers of the area were buying them from me left and right. It was a fun time.
Drop a line if you’d like I’ve got plenty of stories from those days.
I tested this unit at Sony HQ in San Diego. It was really amazing at the time
That was beautiful
Sadly, there´s no Nutella on it. :)
Schön dich hier zu sehen Alex
Do one ☑️
Alex??😂
Was machst du denn hier
3 minutes in and I was thinking, "Aww it would be amazing if he had one to demonstrate" then I realiseed, "Hold on this is Techmoan, of course he's got one or he wouldn't make the video!"
Jason Zak, it’s pretty generic looking, could be just taken from the internet. So, I’d say Mat did a good job building the tension in the beginning.
@@JasonZakrajsek I don't get time to notice the thumbnails, I just see the notification email and I click the link :-)
This looks like the computer on Picard's desk in Star Trek.
Well, not literally - his computer looked like a chunky laptop - but the XEL-1 looks like something from late 1990s science fiction.
I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few of XEL-1's (probably broken ones) would pop up from time to time as used sci-fi movie props.
Probably on the Enterprise-E.
@@3rdalbum Yes, a right chunky boy.
It looks feck-all like it, and yet 175 people liked your comment. Dumbbells who know shitall about STTNG, obv.
I remember seeing this TV at a Sony Store and was blown away by the picture and price. Crazy how I'm using a 55inch oled that cost less than half the price.
techmoan featuring brutalmoose, james may, and technology connections - never thought i’d see the day, but here we are!
I remember seeing this in the Sony store at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles.
My friend and I laughed at the price and said "Wait 10yrs for the big screen version"
Same when I saw it at the Sony store in Boston. Still remembered the price and size.
Didn’t even have to wait anywhere near that long lmao
@@queenbiscuit311 amazing how much the prices have dropped over the years though.
@@zzygyy you can get 4k tvs for cheaper than 1080p tvs were not too long ago, its pretty crazy.
I remember my laptop in 2002ish having a higher res screen than HD. Once hdtvs came out laptop panels all seemed to become lower res, but marketed as better somehow. We had the tech to create 4k TVs for some time, broadcast standards held us back it seems. Probably plays into why they are not that expensive now.
Oh my god, I remember when these came out. And the Sony store had a bunch of samples on display, it was so incredible seeing these things actually for sale, years after my mom worked on the original OLED displays for some fighter jet project. So glad to see you reviewing this thing, and it's just as cool as I remember.
so so the one with glass boarder are much cooler.. this is why i dont buy sony after their FAT TV... since i had build and we gave a lot of them to apartment unit... it was really just reliable...
I wish Sony would re-release this form in a desktop computer. What a handsome little work unit for an office.
The “idiot” puppet wearing his mask wrong was a nice somewhat subtle joke
Perhaps it's social commentary at its finest.
As a retail worker it has some extra kick to it cause I see that 'kind' of of folks all the time, Tasteful satire make everything better
Did you notice he picked the right muppet to wear his mask incorrectly? Where's Zack? The Ryan Seacrest of the muppets
😁
His nose looks like a cold bell-end..
Techmoan: Talks about how hard and unlikely it is to get ones hands on this TV
Also Techmoan: Pulls out time machine
> They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
Can we all take a second to appreciate how Healthy, Happy and Good Looking Mr.Moan looks in this video.
He looks great and so happy in this one especially! Love this guy and the channel! 👍
hahahahah "Mr. Moan"
Please.....please don't call him "Mr.Moan"
@@ek8710 I think it has a ring to it
I like that he dressed up nice for the occasion
I love the fact that the muppets are wearing masks.... mostly correctly. 🤣
It seems perfectly on-brand for the leather-jacket-wearing puppet to be part of the Chinstrap Brigade, too.
You sir hit on the spot
I find it fascinating that the comedy only ever comes out of the puppets. Techmoan himself is very straight man but clearly has this comedy in him. I'd love to see him let that out in the main videos.
@@GeordyLad67 Thanks for trying to derail a conversation about comedy puppets. I especially enjoyed the spelling mistake and the "stream of consciousness rambling" aspects.
@@GeordyLad67 You must be very smart. 🙄
6 months from now, everybody still be like : *nice beard*
It is a very nice beard
Well, it is
It is nice :-P
So? Looks good. People comment it.
Beard makes him look like a scholar at a University
As a Sony fanatic, I really enjoyed watching this video. And I was so happy when I realized you had one to demonstrate :-)
Me too!
Normal person with a Time Machine: I'm going to prevent 9/11
Techmoan with a Time Machine: I'm going to go grab an 11" OLED TV from 10 years ago
I dunno, if I had a time machine, I'd probably go back to 1981 and buy a boatload of Apple stock or something. After I assassinate Hitler in the early '30s and leave a warning about 9/11...
@@Syncopator 1- Don't buy Apple Stock until before Steve Jobs comes back to make the iPod. 2- Don't prevent WWII, you may not be born because of this.
@@Syncopator changing history might not be a good idea. You might not like what will be in place of the old reality when you return
@@angrycreeper100 I guess I'll worry about that once we actually have a working time machine... :-)
@@Syncopator ahhh but would apple stock exist if you had assassinated Hitler as technological developments were pushed by leaps and bounds in WW2? :-))
10:54 Remind me if/when Technology Connections shows a Techmoan video in his channel. I bet it's gonna be within the year end.
th-cam.com/video/dH4n8fUjtLQ/w-d-xo.html - is a mention and link good enough?
Yup... me too 🤣
@@_comment Also this: th-cam.com/video/_saDCwsB9Ww/w-d-xo.html
He has. I just don't remember what video. I think it was his one a while ago on a/c and swamp coolers. I dont think he showed him though, he just mentioned him.
I'm gonna be honest, I discovered both channels within a few weeks of each other a year or two ago, and have been watching them both since.
It makes me very happy to see you happy about finding one those “bucket list” items. I know the feeling myself & the emotion definitely came across on screen! 🤗
this is gonna be the only Techmoan video for a while because he went broke buying this TV
Don't tell the missus it cost seven grand! ;)
The real cost is the instalments for the time machine. They go up each year as we get closer to the date it will eventually go on sale.
@kishenkoolskills90 collector's item status. But yeah, I was kidding.
You never cease to amaze me, Just as I start to think you're going to run out of original ideas for content you just ramp it up a notch and blow me away again.
It's damn pretty. Sony has a hand of releasing stuff way beyond of it's time.
Yeah me and everyone I knew still had crts in 2007
Really enjoyed that thanks Mat. You're looking very distinguished with the suit jacket and elegant whiskers! Plus puppets, what a treat :)
I remember this!!!
Gosh I'm such a nerd, so glad I found this channel.
Well done for finally finding this!
Also nice job sneaking in Tech Connections guy!
Technology Connections is such a hidden gem of a channel. Im surprised his channel growth hasnt been faster than it is.
Wait, when did I say this?
@@miked5444 oh no... It's *you*
@@venge1894 Close to a million subs when I checked yesterday!
I remembering going to a Sony store at a mall by me to look at one of these. I was amazed by how slim it was and being mesmerized by the colors it produced. I think got a Zune HD with a small OLED in it that I thought was so cool at the time! Amazing how technology is still changing so much each year.
I remember seeing this is the Sony store and thinking how will this technology ever be affordable. I was actually just telling a younger guy at work about it. He's in his 20's blew his mind. I can't wait to show him this video.
Thanks for reminding me about this really gorgeous TV set! Nice and humourus like always. Please keep doing this kind of reviews. Loving it. We used to have the Sony XEL-1 in german its german version in the shop where I am working. We used it not actually to sell itself, but we demonstrated since 2010 already to our customers what will be the future best technology for TV screens to come. It has the similar good features like pioneers or Panasonics Plasms screens, but much thinner and lighter and even better black and viewing angle - and less power consumtion of course. In 2015 our local TV station needed some footage about old CRT TVs vs. more modern ones with flatscreen. The feature was about a guy in the city next to ours who’s collecting veeery old TV sets. They filmed in March 2015 in our shop and seemed to be quite fond of the XEL-1, too. They put it next to an antique red mini CRT tele on the counter where I was sitting in the background and gave it quite a lot of airing time then when it was broadcasted in May. Though it is in German language you might enjoy viewing it. I found the recording in my old dmr-bst730 and put it on yt recently, from 2:49 they are in our shop th-cam.com/video/LqKSGG5_b1g/w-d-xo.html. Cheers and thanks again for your good work!
The puppet with the mask around his neck made me laugh so much!
it's called chin diaper
I lost it when I saw that. At least it's a legit mask and not some piece of cloth.
@@JRock424 _doesn't know that modern masks are still made of fabric_
lol.
The depiction of wearing masks wrongly made me LOL as well. I now understand how contraceptives can fail....
And of course it was _that_ puppet. 😂
I'm happy for you! Glad you were able to get an iconic tv that you've always wanted! It definitely has a good home now.
I'm watching techmoan watch technology connections. My life is complete now
I'd have answered "Trinitrons" because they're infamous for their weight.
At university my housemate's father worked for sony. In our house we ended up with what I think was a trinitron. It was 60+ inches, some sort of plasma technology, definitely not crt, but also not very thin by todays standards, and you could split the screen and watch up to 4 different channels at once. It was amazing.
@@FriedEgg101 yeah, Sony tends to keep some innovations pocketed until someone else puts them on the market
The omly tv that came to mind for me was the old Bravia with a built in PS2
Moving the old family one out was a 3-man job just to move it 20 feet onto the trailer
jesus, i know people lighter than that tv
Glad you got one. I remember them coming out and not thinking too much about it, but I can appreciate that you enjoy it the same way I enjoy kickstarting my motorcycle. Fun to see Rich and such on there.
Techmoan‘s TH-cam list looks almost like mine. 🙃
Mine too! Oddity Archive, Technology Connections, FranLab, etc.
Same!
Same.
Same
At 10:54 I was like "Wow!! A Crossover episode!"
The John Lewis store I used to work in certainly had at least one, it stayed in a glass cabinet, and people laughed at the price tag.
Which one was that, the one on Oxford St? My mate and I used to go in there and chuckle at the prices of the bigass TV's around 2003 when plasmas were becoming a thing.
Design-wise, it feels like the early-2000s equivalent of the JVC Videosphere. I mean, obviously they look nothing like each other, but they both give off that swing-and-a-miss futuristic design vibe. It's always fun looking at what someone thought things would look like in ten years from more than ten years later. :)
An iconic television? The Philco Predicta. It defines the 1950s futurism/optimism aesthetic in my opinion. Not built particularly well though, from what I understand. Looks really cool though. :)
Edit: Okay, so I should have just kept watching before commenting. LOL
Recently bought an LG CX and have to say I'm happy that LG kept on developing OLED, great TV.
And as always, superb video!
You finally found one of your unicorns. I remember these when they were first announced and thought they were going to be the future of tv. Now they have standard LED tv’s with almost as good contrast as these without all the problems of OLED. Strange when I think back over the last 46 years of my life and see how far technology has come in my lifetime.
OLEDs only advantage(IMHO) is "true black".
Lol, I love the puppets! Especially with the masks, wonderful.
Crazy thing is, I saw one of these when it came out at the Sony store in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada! I was amazed when I saw it! They had it behind a glass enclosure so people couldn't touch it.
Many congratulations on picking up a new one of these. I can remember exactly when I saw one on sale as I was in Las Vegas to celebrate my 40th (12 years ago) and it was in an electronics shop near Cesars Palace!
Easy way to test the battery on your infrared remotes: open your phone's camera app, then point the remote at the camera lens and push a button. If you see a pale purple flash, it's working; no flash, flat battery. It works because your smartphone camera actually picks up into the infrared, and the phone's image processor interprets that as a pale purple flash.
1:13 it's funny: When Matt said "classical TV" I was imidiately thinking "Philco Predicta". A more modern classic could be Bang & Olufsen Beovision Avant.
Gotcha! But which Beovision Avant do you mean? I would say most iconic would the mid/late 90ies one with the optional VHS recorder. Or did you mean the 4K 75" one?
Pretty sure there were more than one Predicta model as well. I was thinking of the Nordemende Spectra Color Studio but probably couldn't name it if I would be asked.
I predict the new b&o Beovision Harmony or LG OLED65RX (if released) will fit this list perfectly.
BTW. Never heared of the Bosch TV 22. The Bosch TV division was known as Fernseh AG or FESE for short from 1929 on. Must be a mechanical TV than.
Classic TVs reminded me of sets from the 70s-80s, and I suppose the 90s as well.
@@Troppa17 I was thinking about the one with the VHS. I think it's called Avant 28.
@@Troppa17 Yeah, Predicta was my first thought, and there were a few versions, including a few different floorstanding ones (see here: www.wallswithstories.com/interior/philco-predicta.html). I'd seen them around at antique shops at one time, but were either in not that great of shape, or were more than I wanted to pay. Eventually, I found an incredibly good condition 1952 Westinghouse Stratovision H-700T17 17" model in blonde wood with the matching lazy-suzan table. Even has an old TV repair shop sticker on the back. Looks and works great and I've been known to pipe some Honeymooners or other old TV shows on DVD into it through an RF modulator. It's no Predicta but it's very nice and was a lot more affordable and totally has a vintage feel.
I also picked up a Hallicrafters 7" round tube set from 1947 that I found at a junk shop eons ago. It has a push button tuner with channel 1 (channel 1 was in the earliest TVs, but it was phased out in 1948). When I got it, it had a burnt out filament in the picture tube but most of those 7" models all used the same 7" white phosphor oscilloscope tube so it wasn't all that hard to find a replacement. However, the problem with some cheaper made tube TVs such as that one, is they would run all the tubes in a single series string across the line voltage, to save the cost of a filament transformer-- and the problem with that is, when warming up, the resistance of the various tubes changes until it stabilizes and the picture tube filament can get hammered by over current until it does, thereby reducing the life of the tube, which is probably why this one was bad. So I've been planning to see if I can throw a couple of zener diodes across the picture tube filament to protect the replacement tube from that, and the thing has seen better days, but it would look like this in good shape: radioattic.com/item.htm?radio=1310036 Given I've got those two antiques, it seems that collecting a Predicta, as nice as they are, would be more costly than it's worth to me. Unlike Techmoan, I don't feel the need to "collect them all" - somebody's got to do it but it doesn't have to be me... :-)
@@Syncopator Two very nice TV models. The Hallicrafters 7" appeals a little more to me but thats only my preference. Maybe because the Westinghouse Stratovision reminds me on a Grundig TV my grandpa had. Back in the day a friend of mine and I rescued an old Grundig 610 (www.alamy.com/stock-photo-broadcast-television-television-set-first-grundig-television-console-48416583.html) literally from the ewaste but unfourntly a tree fell onto what was my working shed back then and smashed the TV unit and my workbench (including the soldering iron my grandpa gave to me which was back than more important to me...) into pieces.
That was a very sad day. It was very beat up before but after that I could only save 2 tubes of which I gave one to my friend.
Yeah, I see it now more like you I can't collect everything. I originally referred to what I thought was a original Predicta. I saw it once on display in an design store in the Belgium or the Netherlands. (can't remember) But now I - thanks to you - know it was a reproduction by Telstar (www.johnmoran.com/auction-lot/a-telstar-predicta-chalet-television-set_0544E5E8F2)
I remember seeing one of these in person back in 2008 at a high-end home theater store in Maryland.
I remember dreaming about an OLED TV back then, now I'm watching this on one.
@14:15, that brochure reminds me of the 2000s when things looked nice. every unboxing was something magical
Wow, this is a surprise and thank you for this video. I have two sets, one that I use for my switch and the other one is stored away. Build quality is good, yet you have to be careful of the panel separating from the hinge....nice huh? LOL. Both were purchased second hand and working fine to this day. I always get comments when ever someone stops by and sees it. I really love your channel and the vintage gear that you purchase and review. Many of them are on my “wish list.” Thanks again and take care. Cheers.
I loved the Sony OLED XEL-1 design, Sony ALWAYS did innovative designs!
"...and at best, i reckon i've only got about 30 years left myself"
these are the kinds of thoughts i dont wanna think about ;~;
Same, that line definitely hit me hard
Face it and we live in happy times as this prediction is very likely true. Hopefully, the madman still in oval office does not realise he can end this for all of us and bail out of courts.
I going to miss new videos than though. On the other hand my prediction is in the same range.
So it has been sunny day. Going outdoors with my two beautiful daughters. Nice to wrap up a day with techmoan video. Going to sleep with a smile. Well no.. :'(
On the bright side, you could have a heart attack tonight on the toilet, or get hit by a car tomorrow! So he could outlive you, and you wouldn't have to endure the tragedy of his death.
Knowing my family history, I have 19 left myself.
I remember seeing this TV in the Sony store in Shibuya when it was brand new. I wanted one so freaking bad. The contrast was unlike anything I had ever seen in a flat screen. There was a really cool store display there showing how they used the concepts of lightning bugs and other photo luminescent insects to invent the OLED.
8:35 feels like a catfish where you see that nice thin screen followed by the big ass bezels, still awesome for the time though
Oh, wow. This reminds me of when *LGR* opened a NIB NOS IBM PC AT. No wonder you're dressed up-it's a special unboxing. Loved the puppets, as always. (10:30) When I saw the TH-cam buffering circle on-screen, I sat up to correct the issue until I realized that there wasn't any display problem on my end, it was just a recording. (10:53) *Technology Connections* is also here that we may better appreciate forced-air furnaces.
Why does Sony kick-start so many innovative technologies only to be not truly appreciated.
Because they always half ass it and then nickel and dime consumers.
They are a trash company other than playstation. Bought a 900xe and have never hated a tv so much.
@@sealmeatisbestmeat1241 Oh, but I have never had any issues with Sony devices. I know, they are a little bit expensive. I have had 2 Sony phones (one I am using ryt now). An Xperia L and an Xperia M2. First one stopped working 2 weeks ago since my little brother always drops it (accidentally). It was bought around 7 years ago.
The M2 is still going solid, even though the screen's glass broke and some parts of the circuitry lay exposed. It was the fisr and last time this phone was dropped. My bro came running towards me and his hand hit my hand with which I was holding the phone (it was a really bad throw). The only problem is the software. Sony gave the last update in 2018. The phone was bought 6 years ago.
@@kunjupulla I had an M5 before I went back to Nokia. It had a really horrible accident that shattered anything glass, yet I can hear it power-up, but without any display I can't see if it works or just powers up.
Welcome to the general frustation all Sony fans suffer.
"Ferrari! The red one!"
My store at the time "tweeter" has one of these on display. We thought the price would never come down. Sure, in 2020 you can get a phone with oled screen in any corner drug store but in 2008 they were a little hard to come by
Samsung released smartphones with OLED screens by 2010. Yes, burn-in was a problem.
@@NJRoadfan exactly. Still is trouble on phones and oled tvs
Love your use of the Back to the Future reference LoL
I remember seeing this at a local electronics store. The technology was so cool. I knew I wanted a TV like that ...when they got a bit bigger and cheaper. And now, after more than ten years, I finally have an OLED TV I'm very happy with. :)
12:50 Funny enough, that navigation screen looks almost exactly like the one on my family's Sony Blu-Ray DVD player, circa 2010. The one we bought was one of the first affordable Blu-Ray players to have built-in streaming services (these were discontinued by Sony a couple years ago, plus, TH-cam took ~5 min to load and 5 more to search for something). Still plays DVDs surprisingly smoothly since the ones from the library are usually very scratched and would trip up our old Samsung player.
The young man puppet getting his masking wrong. I laughed myself silly!
If only the yungins were the only ones wearing them wrong lol. But I enjoyed that little detail too, very well played.
This little oled would be a perfect companion for my Raspberry Pi 4b
Remember in 2007 when I got my Zune hd I was fascinated with oled and this was the only one .... amazing to see it for once, also I own an LG oled all these years later best choice I’ve ever made
@@johndododoe1411 as you probably know they don’t make them anymore 😂 ... but amazingly The Oled and UI hold up well in 2021. Still no burn in on either devices
Thanks for the video. I saw one of these in a Sony Store in Calgary, Canada in the early 2000's and was in awe. The salesperson took our high school aged crew in to the demo room in the back and we watched an Iron Maiden concert on their latest gear. I'm just waiting for an OLED to come in to a working person's price range in NA and I can make the dream of owning an OLED panel come true.
I remember when Sony released this. I worked at an electronics store at a shopping mall, and while we didn't sell this TV, there was a Sony store down the corridor which did. It was a neat little thing, but then suddenly it was gone and the whole notion of OLED TVs seemed to vanish. Years later, we saw the first LG OLED TVs, which were actually a usable size, incredibly thin, and stunning to look at. They were, however, still very expensive. Finally, in 2019, when the prices dropped comfortably below $2000 (Canadian) I got myself a 55" LG B9 and I love it. Fantastic technology, and whenever somebody visits my place they remark at how thin my TV is.
Thanks for highlighting this often-forgotten TV. It's a fascinating little milestone in the advancements of displays.
I remember seeing one of these in person at an official Sony store. Man, I miss Sony being as cool as they were back in 07.
i have read you're name as "Techno Moan" for years, i can't help myself
*Valley:* You must have seen a segment from his video about the Ring Video Doorbell ... th-cam.com/video/lSpGyf-3W6I/w-d-xo.html
@@Christopher-N from the first video i ever saw I've always read Techno Moan :p
I thought it was Techno Man until I read this comment.
Had the same excitement/fear when I finally tracked down a NOS still factory sealed in box Pioneer kuro to replace my old faithful set. Fortunately it worked out well, it's a beauty 👍🍻
I have watched a lot of your videos but I'm not sure I've ever seen you look quite so excited. You looked like I felt when I bought my last car. I was really excited but also a bit nervous about whether I'd made a mistake and it would turn out to be a disappointment. It didn't for me and it's clear that it didn't for you. Jolly good.
Great! We had it in store, when I started as a hifi salesman. They sold one orginally packed and also the shop display within several days around Christmas 2008. Funny thing - I really thought about getting one for watching youtube in 720 or DVD and the like, because of it's size, resolution, quality and dimensions. Everything would look great on this tiny screen. But the price, the price, and the years... I am amazed that you managed to get one out of the box... lucky you!
That sample picture at 13:00 is almost certainly from the Japanese Alps, most likely from the Nagano prefecture, probably from the area just north of Matsumoto town were the samurai era Shinano Way road existed in ancient times. There is a famous 1977 top hit song about a girl returning to her parental home in that area, riding on the train named Azusa with train number 2 from Tokyo at 8 AM the next day, with... her new lover... instead of her current lover who she is bidding farewell throughout those lyrics. (Between the lines: she will show her parents her new lover to get him approved as her suitable future husband... so SAD for her current lover to be abruptly dumped just like this - he was nice but he didn't measure up in the end). You can see this picture: th-cam.com/video/1rtBYO083BM/w-d-xo.html snapped at the very same spot, just before the video shows the station where she gets down from the train according to the lyrics. So Techmoan's sample picture must have been snapped in the vicinity of that train station? (Shinano-Ōmachi Station)
I think you have the wrong video, it's a series of still shots with music under, and no pictures of the front of electronics stores. It looks like a train station instead, far away from any city that would be selling this expensive little OLED TV. It looks all very rural. There is no moving video at all. It keeps showing the front of a train and mountain views with some guy singing to the music. I'm guessing this is the song about the woman dumping the guy. I do remember reading articles about this TV, I didn't realize it was only 11", I always thought it was closer to 17". Like a medium sized computer CRT at the time. It's interesting the store display Techmoan shows reminds you of this song. Our memories can bring up some odd connections at times! Or should I say Technology Connections!
You know it’s gonna be a good episode when Technmoan wears a nice jacket
I thought, we would never see one. And you lead it to the moment where that was not going to happen.
Great. Wowww....
Yeah cos you were totally expecting him to make a video about it. Stop your pandering.
You know, it's funny that the Philco Predicta came up in the muppet segment, because to my eyes, this almost feels like a modern interpretation of the Predicta. The floating screen, the controls mounted in the base... it feels like the Predicta of the late 00s. Its also interesting to think about it like that because it shows just how much TV design changed in 50 years, of course.
I remember seeing one of these for sale in J&R electronics while on holidays in NY. I remember being struck how vivid the colours were at the time. I bought a Sony vaio laptop the same visit, a good days outing.
Mat would be in Heaven if he ever went to Akihabara in Tokyo.
When this video started, my memory
glands were firing, and I thought “Didn’t this have something like a 13” screen for some ridiculous price?” Turns out it was only 11”. Maybe it was for the rear seats of a premiership footballer’s Range Rover?
I have a Tomorrow's World magazine from 1998 kicking about somewhere (on the other side of the world) with a blurb about the first plasma TV, it wasn't much shalllower than a CRT, was built in to it's own stand, and cost £15,000! Given the time it was from I doubt it was HD ready either, that's one expensive paperweight.
@@worldcomicsreview354 my dads company got the first shipment of plasmas to the US, the were like 40 inches and 6 to 8 inches thick. The were only SD and were just a monitor no TV tuner or anything. They were like $15,000 each IIRC - I was kinda young and it was a while ago
@@worldcomicsreview354 I can remember seeing a massive set that I think was a plasma TV in somewhere like John Lewis or maybe Selfridge's, in the West End of London, that had been reduced from £24,000 to a mere £12,000. I guess that was only a short while after the turn of the century. From memory, it either wasn't turned on, or they'd done that annoying shop thing of "showing off" the display with a mistuned picture in the wrong aspect ratio... 🙄
I remember the first Oled screens being announced when they were just a couple of inches wide.
Thank you for the awesome videos. I really miss the CC. It's great for use at work, at night, and when missing a word it's easy to look down and see it.
Watching this on my ~47 inch viewable Bravia TV from around the same time. Yeah, menus are very similar, but mine are laid out with primarily vertical scrolling expansion. I use it as my main home computer's display too. Been working great for all these years. Cheers.
I remember seeing one of these in Harrods within a locked glass display.
I remember seeing a OLED TV at a London trade show in the early 90's, at the same time I seen a 'no glasses' 3D TV. Hmmm
Techmoan's new beard makes him look like the Russian gangster boss from John Wick.
I’ll take that - I really liked Michael Nyqvist, gone too soon.
@@Techmoan Baba Yaga!
It always makes me smile realizing all the TH-camrs I like to watch, watch each other.
Me too. Rich Rebuilds, Technology Connected, and Drivetribe.
i had totally forgotten about these!
and this is a bittersweet video, because this is probably the newest sony product i actually wanted to buy
I would like to point out, this wasn't technically the end of Sony's OLED involvement. The PlayStation Vita launched with an OLED screen in 2011, before being replaced with an LCD model in 2013.
That uses a Samsung panel.
They also have OLED TVs, but those use LG panels.
Their mirrorless cameras also use high PPI OLEDs for their EVFs, not sure if Sony makes those.
Sony has several pro oled monitors that are very expensive.
I'm pretty sure I was still watching tv on a fat back in 2007
12:28 I know you have been playing Animal Crossing 😏
I want to see techmoans animal crossing gameplay
I remember this being showed as a prototype but never knew a consumer model was ever produced. Very cool that you got your hands on one.
Lot of good channels in Techmoan's sub feed I see. I'd also agree with Ben's comment about paying for what is essentially a "binned" display except in this situation binned was just working as intended and not above a margin of performance loss expectation. For every X number of panels you get a single solid panel, and on something so new/limited like this you're basically buying a handful of displays for a single unit on each purchase.