LG to Unveil Slimmest OLED TV Ever, at IFA

[jrharbort]

With it that thin, I'd almost be afraid to even touch it.

 

[tsnorquist]

Now i can see the full potential of AMD Eyefinity with these suckers!

 

[MrBachelor]

You've got to think bigger. Imagine having an entire wall size screen.
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drool.

 

[jsc]

Nice advertising gimmick, but beyond a certain point, who watches a television from the side?

 

[redzoneos]

I see a lot of comments about refresh rate at 600HZ so I felt the need to comment because I am sure it's more marketing ploy then anything else. (PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'm WRONG)

Most sets operated on 60HZ interlaced (30HZ each for odd and even pixels)
When LCD's were introduced they were prone to ghosting effects especially in film (because film material is recorded at 24p). Basically the film would produce 24 frames, while the screen would refresh at 30HZ for odd and even pixels... sooo, long story short this process of 3:2 pull down created what is called "FILM JUDDER"

Manufacturers introduced 120HZ and later 240HZ... these numbers divide evenly with 24p (5, and 10 respectively) supposedly reducing the FILM JUDDER, although based on professional reviews by CNET and others the difference is very subjective.

Plasma TV's have no such issue with refresh rate because their cells "recharge" over 1000 times faster then any LCD TV... However, as a marketing ploy they added the 600HZ refresh rates to advertise their technology. This 600HZ essentially represents 10 sections of a screen operating at 60HZ each (called a sub field)...

I know very little about OLED technology, but I suspect that it is certainly another marketing ploy to make consumers think that based on numbers (120HZ versus 240HZ versus 600HZ), they are getting a significantly better product.

Fact is, I own a samsung plasma (PN50B650), samsung LCD (LN46B750), and a samsung LED (UN55B7000)... and for the most part I see no difference in quality among ANY of these sets. (LCD's due tend to have a bit of blurring, and LED's tend to have a bit of blooming... but both issues are negligible, and only noticeable when I put them all side by side)

 

[Gin Fushicho]

*jaw drops* 600Hz?! DO....WANT.

 

[cranium]

and 5 months later Sony will reveal the thinnest ever. Then 4 months later Samsung will reveal the thinnest ever. Then Sharp will release one so thin that it actually makes all your other devices thinner. Then Vizio will release a crappy one that will outsell the rest combined

 

[magicandy]

When OLED TVs come down to mainstream price levels, there's going to be an explosion in wall mounted displays. The landscape of not just the living room, but advertisement will change as well. Instead of posters on the wall in fast food places, we'll ultra-thin displays with changing ads, likely 3D in the future when auto-stereoscopy comes of age. There will be a massive shift in the ratio of paper-displayed ads to monitor-displayed ads, as 3D catches the eye much quicker than normal paper or a normal high-res display.

We already see this in many places today with LCD, but it's going to become much more common to the point where displays will be everywhere you look and advertisement will be even more intrusive than it is now.

 

[dethsite2]

toasty warm pass the marsh mollows please..

Caption (the biggest and thinnest oled monitor can now help cover z-cost of z-heating bill..

600hz more pc I think than tv..

cine size screen to be developed for under $50,000 going to make projectors obsolete me thinks...

 

[bin1127]

[citation][nom]xbeater[/nom]600 HZ????? that is just lunatic!!!It must be a typo, can't be anything else..[/citation]

panasonic plasma tv's has 600 hz refresh right now so it's possible for oled. and lcd's are slowly catching up with 240hz.

 

[nxym]

Hey. Thats my Tv that was stolen a couple days a ago. Friggin bastards.

 

[agamemnic]

At THAT price it looks like it'll slim down your wallet too.

 

[urlsen]

Would be awesome to put in a 6 x eyeinfinity setup
Slim bezel

 

[mlopinto2k1]

That was the average price when plasma and lcd large panel screens first arrived. A 60" Panasonic plasma screen 4-5 years ago was upwards of $9,000 dollars.

 

[eddieroolz]

Its nice, but at this point I'd be worried about even taking it out of the box...

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]j3ff86[/nom]More vaporware from LG, like the EL9500 15" OLED before it that was never released in the US.[/citation]
How is it vaporware when it is for sale in Korea? It might not be available in the US (yet), but it is def in production so not vaporware.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]urlsen[/nom]Would be awesome to put in a 6 x eyeinfinity setup Slim bezel[/citation]
Good god the amount of money that would require!!!

 

[lamorpa]

600 Million Hz!

 

[g00fysmiley]

why would you ever need 600 hz are we aiming for with that i mean thats 120 hz x 5 only practical application i can think of iis personal shutter glasses with headphones for 5 people to watch 5 different 3d tv shows or movies at the same time?

 

[lamorpa]

@Kevin (author): If their 15" is $2,500, why would you think a 31" would be $5,000? Even if the cost/area was linear (which it most certainly is not), the 31" has 4X the area, not 2X. For this alone is would cost $10,000. Assuming manufacturing yield scales linearly with area, you put another 4X on it, for a price of $40,000. I'm sure my number is a lot closer than yours.