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January 06, 2008

SONY HAS INTRODUCED OLED TVS: An 11" model that you can buy now, and a 27" prototype. The picture is better than regular LCD or Plasma screens -- a million-to-one contrast ratio with no backlight -- and they're thinner.

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My impression, though, is that there's not much that's really new here -- just a lot of slightly-improved iterations of products that are already out there, for the most part. Sony led off its presentation with the Rolly (pronounced "role-y"), which is basically a dancing Walkman. Apparently it's huge in Japan, but so was Spinal Tap. I'm underwhelmed. Here it is, up close, on a lighted disco floor. It's about the size of my fist.

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