LG to Unveil Slimmest OLED TV Ever, at IFA

Guess I'll sell my soul to lg so I can afford this. I just hope it's enough. All kidding aside I'm glad to finaly see this technology come to bigger screens.

Now if only I could get my wife to be thin....

600 HZ????? that is just lunatic!!!

It must be a typo, can't be anything else..

I need 5 of these to build my little fort of happiness...

This would definitely be a "my hardware brings all the boys to the yard" purchase. Otherwise, probably better off investing elsewhere.

Wow, what a beauty! but the price may be a killer. Glad to see that TV's are still moving forward at a fast pace. Remember to adopt early so its cheaper for me later =)

is that true refresh rate? or through interpolation like the other ones do it...? as in, if i connect my pc to it, would it be really smooth at 600hz?

Aren't they going to break too easy? like when you try to clean them they just crack or something?


they are just too cool

good to see the price for OLEDs are dropping. wasn't it a few years ago when a 10" was like $10,000?

Now that's just full of awesome sauce.
Though, I must ask, what's its static contrast, colour gamut, response time, light output, power use, life expectancy etc. You know, all those standard goodies.

This looks expensive. I mean, REALLY expensive. Definitely cool though!

I would probably cut myself with the edges when trying to carry it.

Whoa, OLED's still happening? Cool, cool.
No matter how excellent the picture is, the size is probably a bit too small for me. But good news to hear nonetheless. 0.29cm thick is pretty crazy.

More vaporware from LG, like the EL9500 15" OLED before it that was never released in the US.

I can't wait til this is mainstream and they make pc screens out of this stuff.

This is cool. But seriously, this race towards microscopic screen thickness (or thinness) is pointless. Two things: 1. Is it durable? 2. Does it matter how thin your LCD is when you're watching it? Sure, it's cool for the first few hours, but after that, what? Meanwhile, you're spending a few hundred bucks more on your installment payments, every month, for a year, to pay for it.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

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...

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

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