Pioneer Stops Making Plasma TVs.

The End of Plasma TVs? Pioneer has announced they will be completely exiting the plasma TV making industry. This is alongside their announcement of laying off 10,000 jobs due to "the global economic slump."

Panasonic, LG and Samsung are the only manufacturers left with Panasonic being the only manufacturer left that produces more plasmas than LCDs. Popular Science has a good article describing the current state of Plasmas here: http://www.popsci.com/entertainment-amp-gaming/article/2009-02/plasma-going-way-romans

Despite plasma TVs being superior to LCD in many ways, the future doesn't look good.

Samsung Introducs a Transparent OLED Display

Check out this video to see this amazing new display.

Here's an interesting comment from reddit.com about these displays:

"Making large OLEDs isn't tough. The reason the display industry hails it as the 2nd coming is because OLED can be fabricated using inkjet printing processes over a theoretically unlimited surface area. OLEDs can be printed on curved substrates, flexible substrates, transparent substrates, you name it.
The tricky part is that they have a service life somewhere between yoghurt and beer. The dyes used really, really like to suck water out of the atmosphere and break down; some of them will actually leech hydrogen and oxygen out of the substrates on which they're printed. They also break down quickly in UV light; sitting all day on the dashboard of a hot car in a parking lot is pretty much the nightmare scenario for OLED at the moment."

I hope they work out these problems - the possibilities for these displays are endless.