I won’t deny it, I am a major fan of OLED related news. OLED is the next generation screen technology. In a few years time (hopefully!) we will be able to upgrade our current televisions and computer screens to OLED. The technology offers energy saving possibilities, much better contrast, and even sharper display features.

We haven’t seen much hardware utilizing this technology yet. Sony, at the forefront of OLED, announced they will be releasing a Walkman with OLED screen technology this month in Japan. The unit with a 3-inch screen and a resolution of 240 x 432 offers many features. It’s definitely not cheap, at 400 bucks for the 16 GIG version, and $500 for the 32 GIG version - but those prices should come down quickly.

Sadly us Europeans and Americans have to wait a little longer. The Japanese, as usual, get their hands on it first.

Read more about Sony’s OLED Walkman by clicking here.

We will be keeping a careful eye on OLED hardware. Besides Sony, Samsung and Sharp are also investing in OLED technology.

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And it’s next generation brother, the Playstation 3, is not happy. A study by the Nielsen Media Research group shows that the Sony Playstation 2 console got the most attention in 2008, with over 30 percent of gaming time spent on that machine. It easily beat it’s newer brother, the PS3, which could only generate a mere 7.7%. This puts it slightly ahead of the quite old GameCube.

Most people apparently feel that the price tag of the Playstation 3 is still too high, and the extra Blu-ray player that is integrated into the system doesn’t make up for it. Until Blu-ray discs become as cheap as DVDs are now people will be happy to keep playing on their “aged” Playstation 2 and view their movies on their trusted DVD players. A dilemma for Sony?

Top Console Usage (by percent of minutes played)
PlayStation 2 (30.2 percent)
Xbox 360 (18.3 percent)
Wii (13.5 percent)
Xbox (9.1 percent)
PlayStation 3 (7.7 percent)
GameCube (4.4 percent)
Other (16.9 percent)

Check out CNET for the full article.