Yes a decade until they become mainstream like I said. The 40 inch model that Samsung is coming out with is going to be well over 10,000 dollars so why don't you do some research and quit sending me harassing emails showing your ignorance to this matter. Thanks I'd appreciate that and I'll even post some info for you to read up on since it looks like your caught up in some unrealistic hype.
Here's some quick facts for you and please stop posting replies to my posts with out presenting any evidence or facts. Anyways....
1.) Sony(with help from Toyota) is coming out with an 11 inch oled for roughly 2,000 USD. That panel is also going to have a short lifespan since they haven't fixed that problem yet.
2.) OLED can produce great black levels since they have a very high DYNAMIC contrast ratio but their NATIVE contrast is subpar thus creating darker color shades.
3.) Like I mentioned in #1 the lifespan of OLED is very low and theres no indication out there yet that mentions it will go up yet. This is a major problem since who wants to pay that much for a tv that will have colors fading in around 5000 hours or 2 years (in some tests)? Also theres been countless reports of oxygen deteriorating the diodes on the oled screens.
4.) Many companies are not set on the oled's and might never be since it has a lot of drawbacks.
There's a lot more info out there on why OLED's aren't that great but personally I think they'll stick along with the lcd's while plasmas will start to fade out slowly except for media room use. However OLED's won't take any noticeable share of the market for about a decade.
VisionEdger, please only post a reply with some real proof instead of random useless thoughts that get people caught up in some nonsense hype.
Any btw I sell home theater for a living so I have to stay up to date on everything.
edit: Also according to informationweek:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199702339
So in five years from now oled's will have LESS than a half a percent (.005) of TV sales. Hmmm interesting.....