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LG's Shows Off World's Thinnest OLED TV at CES

by - source: Tom's Hardware US

Sometimes the more interesting products at CES are not the ones companies are holding massive launch events for.

We first heard about LG’s 31-inch, super slim OLED TV back in August, when it was on show at IFA in Berlin. This morning we got a chance to meet the display face-to-face, though LG wasn’t willing to let us get our mucky fingerprints all over it and kept it in a plastic case the entire time. 



Measuring in at 31 inches and with a depth of 2.9mm, the panel supports both 2D and 3D imaging and, according to information from IFA in September, has a refresh rate of 600Hz. No word on price or release as there were no LG reps immediately available to answer questions. However, yesterday at its press conference, the company did say that it would be expanding on its OLED line this year, and promised a 31-inch OLED panel so hopefully we’ll see something similar to this available in the near future. Whether we’ll be able to afford it is a different kettle of fish altogether.


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chaosgs 01/07/2011 5:41 AM
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Is "Infinite Contrast Ratio" even possible?

gsacks 01/07/2011 5:48 AM
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That is thin enough. You can stop now.

joytech22 01/07/2011 5:52 AM
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This might just be me but.. i prefer chunkier screens of say, 2-3CM in thinkness because it lets me know it's strong enough to take geek rage at LAN's (Sometimes people bang their tables when they get annoyed, shaking screens across the table).

GoldenI 01/07/2011 5:53 AM
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It's not thin enough - in about ten years I can see LED/OLED TVs being paper thin... literally, paper thin.

Darkk 01/07/2011 5:55 AM
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This is got to be the cloesest thing to picture in a frame. OMG. Friggin amazing how thin it is!!

However, at what cost?

two7unsuited 01/07/2011 5:56 AM
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Infinite contrast ratio is possible if you can turn a pixel completely off. Impossibly thin, but look at those bezels, they are completely average.

carlhenry 01/07/2011 5:56 AM
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joytech22 :
This might just be me but.. i prefer chunkier screens of say, 2-3CM in thinkness because it lets me know it's strong enough to take geek rage at LAN's (Sometimes people bang their tables when they get annoyed, shaking screens across the table).



this is perfect for eyefinity.

RADIO_ACTIVE 01/07/2011 6:00 AM
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Its almost to thin, I am afraid it would break...

RADIO_ACTIVE 01/07/2011 6:01 AM
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carlhenry :
this is perfect for eyefinity.


its still has about an inch black border...

JamesSneed 01/07/2011 6:04 AM
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Im assuming infinite contrast is their way of saying it can do perfect white and black at the same time. Since this is an OLED which will not require a back light since the light source is the screen then yeah I guess in a way it has infinite contrast or proably more acuratly near perfect contrast. A 600Mhz refresh rate is pretty damn impressive as well.

soundping 01/07/2011 6:06 AM
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Make a nice computer monitor.

aaron88_7 01/07/2011 6:22 AM
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carlhenry :
this is perfect for eyefinity.


lol....yea like anybody here would be able to afford 3 of those things!

robertking82881 01/07/2011 6:24 AM
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robertking82881 01/07/2011 6:29 AM
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omg i fail

bison88 01/07/2011 6:54 AM
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chaosgs :
Is "Infinite Contrast Ratio" even possible?



No, it's just marketing BS like 1,000,000:1 contrast ratios and the like, or reverse whatever they're doing now all it is, is meant to confuse customers and sucker them into looking at the numbers w/ bigger = better.

elcentral 01/07/2011 8:01 AM
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well my 32" samsung led will live for 2 more years before i get a new one

cjl 01/07/2011 8:14 AM
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bison88 :
No, it's just marketing BS like 1,000,000:1 contrast ratios and the like, or reverse whatever they're doing now all it is, is meant to confuse customers and sucker them into looking at the numbers w/ bigger = better.



Interestingly enough, this is the one case where you're wrong. The ridiculous dynamic contrast ratios advertised by LCDs are 100% marketing BS, and there is not really any difference between the ones advertising 10k:1 and 500k:1. However, since this is OLED, the black areas of the screen genuinely are black, with zero light emission. This gives an effectively infinite contrast ratio, and it doesn't even need any marketing BS to do it.

eddieroolz 01/07/2011 8:17 AM
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I agree that it is insanely thin, but I like some sturdiness in products, you know.

eklipz330 01/07/2011 8:55 AM
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bison88 :
No, it's just marketing BS like 1,000,000:1 contrast ratios and the like, or reverse whatever they're doing now all it is, is meant to confuse customers and sucker them into looking at the numbers w/ bigger = better.


i agree, it is marketing BS

but anyone with eyes can see that the darks are dark as hell and the lights are... light as hell lol

curiousgeorgieo 01/07/2011 9:12 AM
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This just in: LG guy trips while wall-mounting his OLED screen and slices himself in half

x3style 01/07/2011 9:47 AM
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curiousgeorgieo :
This just in: LG guy trips while wall-mounting his OLED screen and slices himself in half


In other news, someone tripped on the stairs and died, the goverment is looking into banning stairs,because there is no cure for being stupid.

alyoshka 01/07/2011 10:15 AM
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Drooling already.......

lengjai 01/07/2011 10:22 AM
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curiousgeorgieo :
This just in: LG guy trips while wall-mounting his OLED screen and slices himself in half



x3style :
In other news, someone tripped on the stairs and died, the goverment is looking into banning stairs,because there is no cure for being stupid.



Banning stairs won't happen. The process has already been patented. As for OLED screens also being used as cutting tools, patent is currently pending

mauller07 01/07/2011 12:10 PM
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Very nice, now all they need to do is surface mount the oled film to remove the bevel completely.

nebun 01/07/2011 2:14 PM
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i like how all the cable connections are integrated in the base, clean, very clean

g00fysmiley 01/07/2011 2:37 PM
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i don't think i want tv's to be that slim... looks like a strong gust of wind might knock it over unless properly secured to a surface

lamorpa 01/07/2011 2:41 PM
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RADIO_ACTIVE :
Its almost to thin, I am afraid it would break...


It is already to the thin end of TVs. It may be TOO thin though...
[too: adverb, to a degree exceeding normal limits]


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