LG will sell rollable television in 2019

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/18/2018 10:22 AM | source: bloomberg | 24 comment(s)

Manufacturer LG would have plans to sell a roll-up television in 2019. The televisions have a flexible 65-inch screen that can be rolled up like a poster.

This is done automatically by pressing a button. The manufacturer already showed a prototype of a similar television at the CES gadgets fair early this year but did not want to say when and when the TV will ever be sold.

With the prototype, the screen is rolled up in the soundbar. This will make the screen disappear from view, so that the television is not continuously visible in the living room. Also only a part of the screen can be shown, for example, to show a music player. Many details about the sale are not yet known. An exact date in 2019 or a sales price has not yet been mentioned. The television producer has not responded to the rumors.

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SamuelL421
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#5618614 Posted on: 12/18/2018 06:22 PM

lol at the lady smirking when he asks about price / availability. "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."

These flexible screens are the latest example of cool new tech that can't find a purpose and and can't be produced affordably.

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#5618619 Posted on: 12/18/2018 06:33 PM

So, they made very thin (to allow rolling) and easy to break screen and put it into huge, ugly and likely heavy box.
Did I miss the positive part?

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#5618620 Posted on: 12/18/2018 06:33 PM

^^ "They see me rolling, I burn-in"...
I mean untill they sort the major issues (burn-in, abl, temporary image retention) with oled, this is just a massive gamble to buy something like this as it is probably gonna cost like $15-$20k+. I have friends who got burn-in on their oleds (one on sony other on lg) that were not covered by warranty. One has bbc logo burned in ant other one gaming hud....
All i'm looking at is samsung in the next few years as they have shown that LED tvs can still improve and come super close to oled (while beating it in many areas).

I have the first gen LG 55" OLED, LG 65" B7A, and several OLED phones/tablets. Have never had any issues with burn-in or image retention, even when I accidentally left something on the screen for a few hours. You just need to leave the OLED cell light setting between 50 and 80, and put new sets through an extensive burn-in period of watching shows with a 16x9 aspect ratio (much like plasmas).

If your friend unknowingly turned up the brightness on a new set and then left up something with a static display for several hours (such as a news ticker or game user interface), that probably was the cause of his burn-in and image retention woes.

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#5618622 Posted on: 12/18/2018 06:35 PM

This is a smart idea for corporations that need panels and places that do events or just to eliminate storage concerns and taking up space... it just needs to be refined and made more portable like a roll-up screen for a window'

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#5618647 Posted on: 12/18/2018 07:22 PM

Just got a new LG Thin Q AI Smart TV 4k HDR10. Works great, except the wifi standard is 2.4ghz. I have an older 4k tv from LG as well, and it even has a 5ghz wifi chip in there.

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