Stop Whining, Toby — We’ll Get That New OLED TV as Soon as We Sell Your Sister’s Kidney
If you’re in the market for a new television and have a well-developed immunity to sticker shock, then Samsung’s got the TV for you: The Super OLED.
Brilliantly rebranded with the memorable moniker ES9500 OLED TV, the 55-inch set features a display that Samsung claims produces deeper contrast and finer detail than typical OLED screens, along with voice and gesture control. Also on board: The company’s Smart DualView technology, which allows users to view two different programs on a TV’s screen simultaneously, with the help of 3-D glasses and couple of pairs of headphones.
Price? 10.8 million won, or about $9,500.
That’s close to double what you’d pay for one of the high-end 55-inch TVs currently on the market. Given that price point, Samsung is taking the ES9500’s ramp-up nice and slow. It plans to begin shipping it in the latter part of this year, with an eye toward producing about 55,000 units. And if all goes as planned, that number will hit five million by 2015.
