LG to debut ‘world’s largest’ Organic-LED and 3D LED TVs at CES
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LG is bringing some big TVs to January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Specifically, the world’s largest Organic-LED TV, at 55 inches, and the world’s largest 3D LED TV with a screen size of 72 inches.
The new television sets may or may not be considered affordable, but they surely will be large and probably will attract attention at the show to Korea’s second-largest electronics maker, behind rival Samsung.
‘Our objective has always been to actively define and lead emerging display technology markets,’ Sang Beom Han, chief executive and executive vice president of LG Display, told the Times of India newspaper about the massive new Organic-LED, or OLED, TV set that will debut at CES.
‘Although OLED technology is seen as the future of TV display, the technology has been limited to smaller display sizes and by high costs, until now. LG Display’s 55-inch OLED TV panel has overcome these barriers,’ Han told the newspaper.
The website Engadget reported that a prototype of LG’s new OLED set came in at just 5-millimeters thick. LG hasn’t yet said how much its new large-screen TVs will cost, but big screens don’t come cheap, especially when they make use of OLED technology. As noted by the website Gizmodo, in 2009, LG introduced a a 15-inch OLED TV priced at $3,000.
Sony is also currently selling a wearable TV headset that contains two OLED displays that are just 0.7 inch big for $800.
[Updated, Dec. 28, 8:59 a.m.: An earlier version of this post incorecctly stated that LG released a 15-inch OLED TV for $2,500. That TV was priced at 3,000, as reported by the website Gizmodo. This post has been updated to correct this error.]
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