LG Display, the screen-making subsidiary of LG, is dedicated to OLED panels, and it has unveiled an impossibly thin television to prove it.

At a press event in its home country of Korea on Tuesday, LG Display showed off a “wallpaper” proof-of-concept television. The 55-inch OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display weighs 1.9 kilograms and is less than a millimetre thick. Thanks to a magnetic mat that sits behind it on the wall, the TV can be stuck to a wall. To remove the display from the wall, you peel the screen off the mat.

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Spiny Norman said:

LG Display, the screen-making subsidiary of LG, is dedicated to OLED panels, and it has unveiled an impossibly thin television to prove it.

At a press event in its home country of Korea on Tuesday, LG Display showed off a “wallpaper” proof-of-concept television. The 55-inch OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display weighs 1.9 kilograms and is less than a millimetre thick. Thanks to a magnetic mat that sits behind it on the wall, the TV can be stuck to a wall. To remove the display from the wall, you peel the screen off the mat.

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Interesting I remember a scifi novel I read had a roll up computer similar in thickness and size to plastic placemats probably a reality very soon.

Speaking of TVs, I thought this was pretty cool. It’s the “view” inside the lift to the top of One World Tower.

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• Interesting I remember a scifi novel I read had a roll up computer similar in thickness and size to plastic placemats probably a reality very soon.

Not exactly what you mean but:

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furious said:

• Interesting I remember a scifi novel I read had a roll up computer similar in thickness and size to plastic placemats probably a reality very soon.

Not exactly what you mean but:

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I saw that a somewhat strange idea

There are still several technical limitations with OLEDs, the most major being their short lifespan (about 1/2 – 1/7 that of other LED/LCD technology), their inefficiency (particularly blue, with an efficiency of about 6%, about 1/6 that of LEDs), and the colour balance properties, due to different aging properties of the red, blue, and green emitters. The cost of printing the OLED material onto the substrate is quite low – it can be done with an inkjet printer, for example – but the substrate itself is still quite expensive. Large-scale production may reduce the cost somewhat, though.

These issues mean that the cost of these TVs would be comparable to similar-sized TVs, but their lifetime would be significantly less.

btm said:

There are still several technical limitations with OLEDs, the most major being their short lifespan (about 1/2 – 1/7 that of other LED/LCD technology), their inefficiency (particularly blue, with an efficiency of about 6%, about 1/6 that of LEDs), and the colour balance properties, due to different aging properties of the red, blue, and green emitters. The cost of printing the OLED material onto the substrate is quite low – it can be done with an inkjet printer, for example – but the substrate itself is still quite expensive. Large-scale production may reduce the cost somewhat, though.

These issues mean that the cost of these TVs would be comparable to similar-sized TVs, but their lifetime would be significantly less.

Not worth it then at the moment.

• Not worth it then at the moment.

It never is, at the beginning. Early adopters who must have the latest and greatest are a boon to those who wait behind for the prices to fall…

furious said:

• Not worth it then at the moment.

It never is, at the beginning. Early adopters who must have the latest and greatest are a boon to those who wait behind for the prices to fall…

No not usually, about the only people who won out with early adoption was those with solar panels, we get the 40 cents a kilowatt hour rebate and the government paid at least 3/4 of the price of the panels and they are good quality panels and invertor, they saved us large amounts of electicity costs

furious said:

• Not worth it then at the moment.

It never is, at the beginning. Early adopters who must have the latest and greatest are a boon to those who wait behind for the prices to fall…

So true

. Are you at the end of the branch? Will you take the leap?