LG Display announced that it is going to unveil new slim LED LCD prototype TVs at CES 2015. LGD will show 55" and 65" "Art Slim" LCDs that are 7.5 mm (55") and 8.2 mm deep - which means LG managed to reduce their LCD depth by 75% (they also reduced the weight by 25%).
This means that these new LCDs rival the thickness of LG's OLEDs which are about 4.5 mm thick (apart for the connector box which is a lot thicker). OLEDs can be a lot thinner of course (Sony for example showed a 0.3 mm 11" OLED panel prototype back in 2008), but LG's new slim TVs show again how difficult it is to compete with the combatant LCD technology.
LG explains that they managed to reduce the thickness by innovating the mechanical structure of the TV - mainly converting the LCD module's back into the rear cover of the complete TV. LG's narrow bezel technology also helped them attach the rear cover to the panel in a more efficient way. Finally a thin aluminum composite material was used for the module back cover which made it stronger.
CNet reports that these prototypes will be shown by LG Display. These aren't commercial TVs yet, and actually LGD plans to first supply these modules to Chinese TV makers and not LG Electronics, which is a bit strange.
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The static contrast for OLED actuall is infinite. Yes. The static one. The one thats 1:1000 on all TNs, IPSs and 1:3000 on all VAs.
Because OLED has a seperate backlight for each pixel.And OLEDs response time is 0.02ms for ALL color shifts not just gray2gray.
DO YOU GET IT NOW? Do you get now why OLED is so amazing and we all cant wait to afford one?!
Unless they magically manage to produce an LCD panel that is capable of a static contrast ratio of at least 1:10000, there's no competition for me.