Society for Information Display (SID) members and others showed up en masse to view the world's most advanced AMOLED displays at the 49th Annual Display Week in Boston. We were surprised to hear at least one well-known financial analyst report that aside from the large AMOLED 3-D TVs, there were no unexpected AMOLED developments at the show. Perhaps the display industry has pro- gressed so far and so quickly that people expect a major technology shift every year. In fact, there was much that was notable at the show, including new backplane technologies, the demonstration of large AMOLEDs with a-Si backplanes, and flexible displays nearing mass production - all far from ho hum developments. Ever since CES in January, Samsung and LG have been getting rave reviews for their 55-in. AMOLED TVs, and now we know why. The TVs shown at Display Week were thin, with high contrast, viewability from any angle, and no ghosting. Samsung showed three TVs - a 2-D version, a 3-D version, and a dual-view version (Fig. 1). LG showed only a 3-D version, but it appears that the LG unit is closer to mass production (Fig. 2).
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