
The company is looking to merge standard flat or recent curved TV technologies to introduce a bendable OLED to market in 2015. LG claims the TV will allow users to maximize the benefits of both flat and curved TVs, seamlessly switching between the two modes to suit certain content types and user preferences.
Flexible TV technology features a motor which flexes the display panel from its traditional flat form, to a curved TV for more immersive viewing angles.
LG claims the company’s development of OLED technologies has made flexible TVs a viable prospect.
LG opened the company’s M2 factory earlier in 2014, where it is capable of building OLED panels using oxide TFT maskless WRGB production process which simpler and offer better yield rates.
Flexible TV concepts were demoed at the CES event earlier in 2014 by both LG and Samsung.
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