LG just made the first curved 3D OLED screen. I just saw a crazy setup of three 55-inch beauties aligned side-by-side into a perfect cinematic curve. The effect is very dramatic. This could be the whole reason 3D and curved OLED exist. More »
OLED TV? Meh, that’s already passé: if you want to hang with the cool kids, you need a curved OLED else they won’t let you into their treehouse. Both LG and Samsung wheeled out flexed OLED panels at scales suited to your living room at CES this year, showing off their skills at twisting organic light-emitting diodes and each claiming to be the first to do it.
Both of the sets come in at 55-inches, and each runs at 1080p Full HD rather than Ultra HD. You’ll have to look to more traditional LED panels if you want 4K resolution, at least for the moment.
Even without those extra pixels, you’re getting a luscious viewing experience. We’re familiar with OLED’s richness of color and crisp detailing, from the previously-shown, flat OLED sets, but standing at the center of the flexed panels new for 2013 does feel somewhat more immersive than before.
Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait to experience that at home. Both Samsung and LG are tight-lipped on detailed specifications, launch plans, and pricing, which leads us to suspect that curvy big-screen OLED TVs aren’t headed to our living rooms any time soon (or at a price we could stomach).
It’s LG versus Samsung in the curved OLED TV wars is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Panasonic wasn’t about to let Sony one-up it in the 4K OLED arena, and announced its own 56-inch UltraHD prototype the day after its competitor outed a very similar panel here at CES 2013. We’d never tire of the luscious combination of 4k and OLED, so we couldn’t wait to high-tail it to the Panasonic booth to gaze at new screen in its full glory. As with the Sony model, it sucks you into the screen with the level of detail, brightness, ultra-dark blacks and vivid colors — which looked accurate to our eyes, an area in which OLED can fall down. Other than that impression, there were no other technical details or specs for the prototype display, and none of the Panasonic types we spoke to had any idea either. We’re not likely to see such a model on sale anytime before 2014, and when it does arrive, you’ll probably need all the digits on one hand for the number of figures in the price. Check the gallery below for images, or head after the break for a short video — which doesn’t remotely do the panel justice, natch.
Gallery: Panasonic 4k OLED TV
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Samsung, not content to stop at its imprisoned UltraHD televisions, has announced its latest technologically marvelous curiosity: an 55-inch OLED television with a display that curves. More »
Sony is going to sell a giant immaculate 4K OLED TV, someday, to kings and robber barons and various queens. Now Panasonic says it’s doing the exact same thing. More »
A few days back we mentioned that LG had started taking pre-orders in Korea for its new 55-inch WRGB OLED TV set. That TV pre-order would cost you the equivalent of $10,000 in Korea. LG has announced this week that it will be making its incredibly thin OLED TV available in the United States starting in March.
Deliveries of the TV to Korean customers are set to begin in February. If you thought the Korean price, which worked out to $10,000 here in the US was expensive; you won’t like the official US pricing at all. LG has confirmed that the MSRP for the TV in the United States will be $11,999.
One of the hallmarks of the OLED TV is an incredibly thin design that is only 4 mm thick. The TV also weighs less than 22 pounds and promises exceptional color reproduction along with vivid and realistic images. The TV uses LG’s unique Four Color Pixel system with a white sub pixel working with conventional red, blue, and green pixels to create the perfect color.
The TV also has LG’s exclusive Color Refiner technology to provide greater tonal enhancement that results in images that are more vibrant and natural. The TV also has an infinite contrast ratio that maintains optimal contrast levels regardless of ambient light or viewing angles.
LG announces US availability for OLED TV is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Sony announced today that it has developed the first 4K (3840 x 2160) OLED (organic light-emitting diode) televisions. To demonstrate its latest achievement, Sony will display a 56-inch prototype at The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The world’s first and largest 56-inch OLED TV achieves 4K resolution by using the latest oxide semiconductor TFTs and Sony’s own ‘Super Top Emission’ technologies. The OLED panel used in this prototype 4K OLED TV on …
[CES 2013] 4K seems to be taking over CES this year as a number of TV manufacturers are introducing their next HDTVs, and it seems Sony is another TV manufacturer that is not only showing their first 4K TV, but it’ll be the first 56-inch 4K OLED TV.
Sony’s 56-inch 4K OLED TV is able to display at a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 and is filled with Sony’s oxide semiconductor TFTs and Super Top Emission technologies, which as long as that means we’re able to view 4K on an OLED TV, then that’s good enough for us.
The 56-inch 4K OLED TV prototype didn’t come with any mention of any other specs we expect to hear from an official announcement of a new TV set, which makes sense since this is, in fact, a prototype. We’re sure Sony will be using today’s reveal as a stepping stone to reveal an actual commercial product one day, and when that happens, be sure that we’ll be right there to get all of the juicy details we know you’re dying to hear right now.
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If you’ve ever seen an OLED TV, you’d you’d remember it. Same can be said about 4k. Combine the two together and you truly have a sight to see — which is exactly what Sony has done. Of course it is very difficult to judge picture quality when a TV is on a stage vs in your living room. That doesn’t mean we aren’t impressed and it doesn’t mean we won’t be looking forward to the day we can see our favorite content on it in the comfort of our own home — assuming of course, that one is affordable in our lifetime.
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4K TVs look amazing. OLED TVs look amazing. You can imagine, therefore, how good a 4K OLED TV will look. Sony has just wowed the audience here at CES 2013 with the news that it’s produced the world’s first Ultra High Definition television that uses Organic LEDs. Given how many companies have launched 4K sets here — Westinghouse, Hisense, Toshiba and LG, just to name a few — it’s not unusual to hear that Sony has one-upped the crowd by adding a pinch of OLED to the mix.
The 56-inch set boasts a native 3,840 x 2,160 OLED panel, and a prototype will be on display here at CES 2013 in Las Vegas. Sony’s pimping its own “oxide semiconductor TFTs” and “Super Top Emission” technologies, but isn’t saying much else. There’s zero mention of contrast ratio, refresh ratio, thickness, power draw, or any other specifications. Not exactly a shocker, but disheartening nonetheless. We’ll be prying for more — including any plans for a commercial release — as the show rolls on.
Gallery: Sony 56-inch 4K OLED TV
Daniel Cooper contributed to this article.
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