Is a 1-mm thick TV really off the wall?
The TV, which gives use a potential glimpse of the future, can be stuck to a wall using a magnetic mat that sits behind it on the wall. The display can be removed from the wall by simply peeling the screen off the mat.
The unveiling in Korea was part of a broader announcement by LG Display to showcase the company’s future plans which will focus on OLED technology. Sang-Deog Yeo, the head of LG Display’s OLED business unit, said "OLED represents a groundbreaking technology" not only for the company, but also for the industry.
G said the company was the first to mass-produce large-screen OLEDs for televisions and claimed that the company’s yield has hit 80 percent, which although impressive, still remains lower than yields achieved by LCD technologies so far.
The poorer yield issue, coupled with higher pricing, suggest that ‘wallpaper’ OLED televisions are not likely to see the devices hit the market in the near future.
LG Display forecasts that the company will sell 600,000 OLED TV panels in 2015 and 1.5 million in 2016. In the shorter term LG says the company is planning to debut a 99-inch OLED panel TV later in 2015. Pricing for the 99-inch model was not revealed but LG’s current 77-inch 4K OLED screen has a price tag of about $25,000.
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