Russia 1st to Get LG's Borderless LCD HDTV
LG's 42-inches of borderless love is heading to Russia first. Sorry.
Who's the jealous gadget lover? We are. Why? Because apparently Russia gets all the LG hi-def love by receiving the company's borderless LCD HDTV first before any other International market. To make things worse, LG's 42-inch SL8000 Borderless isn't too expensive, costing consumers a chunky $2,133 USD (61,990 rubles). Admit it: for a borderless HDTV of that size, the pricetag isn't too shabby.
Since we can't speak or read a lick of Russian, TechFresh has provided the juicy high-definition details, reporting that the SL8000 provides 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 150,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, and a 2ms response time. The HDTV also uses LG's TruMotion 200 GHz for cleaning up that annoying blurriness left behind by moving objects, an Intelligent Sensor that will adjust the backlight brightness depending on the room's lighting, and a power saving feature.
After loading up the Russian product page (via Babel Fish), the specs indicate support for DivX, JPEG, MP3, and MPEG4. The HDTV also provides a USB 2.0 port that can be used with flash drives and USB-based external HDDs. There's also Bluetooth for connecting wireless headphones and receiving content from other Bluetooth devices.
Currently there's no word on additional sizes outside the just released 42-inch version, nor has LG announced ship dates for markets outside Russia. Stay tunes... we expect to see this borderless beauty (or a variation) in 2010.
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I'm broke so I'll wait
Price is out of my price range, but I'm really surprised the Russians got it first tho. I would guess the Japs or the Brits/Europeans or hell us Yanks to get it first.
hmmm, borderless....eyefinity super setup!
whats that at the bottom of the thing? It says Lg, it has to be on a border or it would block out content of the television
To Russia with love
too bad just 1 costs more then 4 HD5870. I still want 4 or 9 of these for Eyefinity.
Russian oil tycoons want to watch beautiful TV with their model "girlfriends".
I don't know but if it's borderless, why is there an lg logo at the bottom of the "borderless" display?
How about something in english:
http://www.lge.com/us/tv-audio-vid [...] 42SL90.jsp
Wow... 200GHz (200 billion refreshes per second) screw the normal Hz I have sensitive eyes!
Now I wonder if the borderless is TRUE borderless so you can stack panels seamlessly together or is there just a very very small border.
Now just to hook it up to that new ATI card that's coming out with all those nifty display ports!
lol 200ghz, now they're just making things up
Forget it being borderless... Did you guys take a look at all those other features?
How about something in english:http://www.lge.com/us/tv-audio-vid [...] 42SL90.jsp
From the link:
"The SL90 features a seamless, edge-to-edge panel"
Excuse me, I need to change my underwear...
The borderless is probably with respect to the top and sides. The bottom is where the 'on' light usually is as well as a speaker bar of some sort. Also it is probably a few mm in thickness at the edges.
0.2THz refresh? Nah, I'll pass. Much too slow.
But can it dis-play Crysis?
according to some showcase videos, all the buttons are LED buttons and the LG logo goes off when you turn on the TV. This TV is truly completely bordless in all directions
Cheers
k..my bad..there is indeed a small border on the bottom...but the buttons seem to be LED anyways.
Come on guys its a 200Ghz "Class" model. They just round up from Hz to Ghz.
HOLY CRAP! I can't wait to see this in market. Gonna love trying to use it as computer monitors and hook like 3 of them together.
iono what samal90 is talking about but the TV is no where near borderless.
check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L2IUlUbJGE
Boo, got me excited for a second. Wake me up when there's a bezel-less LCD HDTV.
Sorry to spoil it for the Russians, but South Africa has had it for months now.
Boo, got me excited for a second. Wake me up when there's a bezel-less LCD HDTV.
Isn't Samsung working on those?
I want a 50" 3840x2040 bezelless monitor (Samsung's doing the bezeless LCD's, and if I remember correctly, LG is working on the 3840x2040 resolution LCD's).
Then put 9 of them together (replacing a wall).
Then get as many ATI 5970's (or the next gen, or Nvidia 3xx) as you use a Lucid Hydra 200 (or 300 if it comes out) to link all the cards together for better scaling (as compared to SLI/CF, which don't go past 4 GPU's anyways).
Then play Crysis.
This TV only has 200Hz motion compensation? What a piece of garbage considering other brands have 240Hz motion compensation. A TV that can play film based content natively without 3:2 pulldown detection would be a lot better. It would cost about the same as a TV with 240Hz motion compensation and have a much better picture.
Why 1080p? Why not 2500 x 1600 or higher?
Is this LCD is true 8 bits / color?
This LCD has been long in the Indonesian TV adv.
Ehmm, something's definately wrong with this article. As far as I know LG's SL8000 is available in EU since middle of October!
Is is already available in Australia in 42" and 47"
It's been available in Finland since October. Sizes from 37" to 47" are available immediately.
also been available in South Africa for more than a month
also been available in South Africa for more than a month