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Hey princess, look over here — daddy’s got a pair of new LG W30 Color Pop monitors for you. These sticky-sweet parfaits of sugar-liquid crystal come all the way from South Korea. Do you know where that is? Sure you do, just below that little man with the bouffant hairdo and Elvis specs. These 37-mm slim monitors are available in your choice of Oreo Black, Jelly Pink, Blueberry Purple, Applemint Green, and Hawaiian Blue and ship with a glossy, two-tone frame to further unsettle your mother’s sense of refinement. They come in medium (18.5-inch, 1366×768 pixels) and big (21.5-inch, 1920×1080) sizes and begin shipping in the US come September and worldwide later in the year. Just for you, ’cause you’re worth it honey.

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Eyes on LG’s Color Pop monitors, just called Coke in the south originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mitsubishi is now shipping several of its flat-panel 1080p LCD TVs with an integrated Vudu app. Users who purchase the Diamond Unisen models, LT-46249 and LT-52249, will be able to access Vudu content directly from the TV via an Ethernet connection. They can also add an optional Vudu wireless accessory bridge to link their TVs to a wireless home network.

Vudu now offers about 2,200 HD titles and 16,000 titles overall, which you can rent or purchase. Later this month, Diamond Unisen Immersive Sound TVs will also add access to content from YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and Pandora, as well as an “On Demand TV” area with more than 80 channels.

The 46-inch LT-46249 will cost $2,599, and the 52-inch LT-52249 will retail for $3,099. For a limited time, buyers will get $50 worth of free movie rentals or purchases from Vudu.

In other Vudu news, LG announced Tuesday that Vudu streaming is now available on its broadband HDTVs. The company first announced plans for Vudu-enabled TVs in early August, and the service is now live for LG’s LH50 1080p LCD series and PS80 plasma 1080p series with “NetCast Entertainment Access.”

LG’s latest Black Label device, tastefully titled the Chocolate Touch, caused quite a few gasps and swoons around the Engadget mansion when it was first spotted, and subsequent photo shoots have not diminished our admiration. The gorgeous 4-inch, 21:9 display promises a whole new way to experience web browsing and video playback on a mobile phone, and we’ve been salivating for an opportunity to try it out. Finally, that day has come, so follow along as we get our fingerprints all over a final production sample, and bring you pictures, video and our thoughts on the functionality that lay behind that tempered glass screen.

Continue reading LG BL40 Chocolate Touch hands-on

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LG BL40 Chocolate Touch hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG is set to show a 15-inch OLED TV that is striking in both its luminosity and design.

The TV is expected to be introduced at the IFA 2009 consumer electric show in Berlin in September and launched at the end of the year, says the website, OLED-Display.net.

LG hasn’t revealed the pricing for these beauties but it is not likely to come cheap. Sony’s 11-inch OLED TV costs $2500.

The new LG OLED display looks much like a photo frame with its controls and ports tucked in behind the screen. The screen can be wall mounted and tilted for best viewing angle.

OLED (organic light emitting diode)-based displays are taking off in a big way with companies such as Samsung and Nokia offering mobile phones with small OLED displays. The displays are attractive to consumers because they offer extremely vivid colors and high clarity. But so far the high cost of these screens has meant the technology hasn’t become widely used in consumer products.

The new LG 15-inch OLED TV could be a sign that these displays may now be ready to take the place of LCD and Plasma in HD TVs. With mass production and high sales volume, prices of these TVs could come down rapidly in the next few years. LG is also reportedly working on a 40-inch OLED TV.

More pictures of the LG OLED TV

LG bared the fruits of its OLED labor last week with a new set of photos of its gorgeous 15-inch screen, and now comes word from Reuters that it’s gearing up to become consumer reality. The company will be showing off the model at next week’s IFA trade show, and then expects to start selling it in Korea this November, followed by overseas sometime next year. Excited? You bet. Affordable? Price unknown, with Sony’s two-year old 11-inch XEL-1 still retailing for $2,500 in the US — and worse elsewhere — you can expect to be sacrificing a pretty penny for small-screen bliss. LG also plans to show off a 40-inch OLED in the “not too distant future,” but don’t expect to be seeing that hit retail shelves for a good long time to come.

[Via OLED-Info]

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LG’s 15-inch OLED TV on sale in Korea this November, overseas in 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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