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Are OLED TVs Doomed?

The real question is why are manufacturers so obsessed with curving small (<80") TVs when it just makes the image worse(distorted)?

Most people who are going to spend the kind of money on a TV that OLED costs do not want the image distorted, nor do they want to make viewing angles worse for everyone watching the screen other than the person sitting perfectly in the center.

I don't think it's too likely OLED is doomed. Samsung will keep improving manufacturing of this type for their mobile devices, and arguably the newest Samsung OLED screens are flat-out superior to LCD in every way. Colour accuracy is almost there(equal or better than every Android phone other than Google's Nexus line according to anandtech) and contrast is, obviously, infinitely better. Whether or not TVs will come down in cost for the average consumer within the next 5 years is certainly a bigger question, and they may not... but that doesn't mean OLED is doomed in the long run, especially since for all their talk of how much LCDs have improved, they are NOT even REMOTELY comparable to OLED in contrast which is one of the single most important, if not the most important, factor in image quality.

There's no indication that cost-effective LCDs will ever match plasma, let alone OLED.
 
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I saw a bunch of bad copy and paste articles very similar to this a while ago. Now this one too?

No one wants curved TVs. It has no effect on if OLED TVs will succeed or not. It pretty much makes this whole article stupid.

OLED TVs can be 4K too, it isn't limited to LCD screens like the article may seem to imply. Most new OLED TVs will be 4k because it is becoming the new standard resolution. OLEDs don't have any technical hurdles with resolution like Plasmas did when they first came out.

The only real issue the article talks about is the price. Eventually the price will come down, it just takes time.
 
OLED tv will be the market equivalent of plasma tv, relegated to the high-end and home theater aficionados.
OLED has great brightness, contrast and color when new.

OLED decay causes inconsistent color, since red, green, blue, white have differing lifetimes. Whereas in conventional LCD/white LED backlit, the image just appears darker and can be compensated by bumping the brightness/contrast curve.
OLED has wider gamut that content providers do not utilize, resulting in inaccurate color fidelity compared to most other displays.
OLED has greater burn-in, due to the increased brightness. This also affects black level as the display ages.
OLED has low manufacturing yields due to volatility of organic components, forcing the prices to stay high. Mass consumers want cheap.
 
I'll be watching movies/tv with my Oculus Rift which has an OLED display...but for TV's, it seems like the cost dropping to become affordable for the average consumer isn't happening fast enough.
 
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