The South Korean company LG, the second-largest manufacturer of television sets in the world, announced its plans to introduce curl OLED-TV panel technology exhibition to be held in the US next year .
LG Electronics is working on a 55-inch of the pitch of the TV, whose debut will take place in the framework of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2016 – said the publication of The Korea Times representative Research Center LG.
While we are talking about the prototype. The mass production of flexible television will come no earlier than three or four years.
It is reported that an unusual form factor will allow the company to create a new ecosystem of products based on OLED-technology. The LG believe that the large size flexible OLED-panel will bring us more profit than the device with a small screen.
In contrast to existing TVs with a curved screen, twist the panel is more convenient to carry, and to place them can be in any convenient viewing spot.
As a supplier of transparent and flexible OLED-panel for a new TV set will make the company LG Display, a supplier of batteries will be LG Chem, the world’s largest manufacturer of batteries for electric cars.
However, there are many technical obstacles to be solved before the flexible OLED-TVs will become a mass product. But when it happens, people’s lives change for the better, – said the representative of the company.
LG Electronics sees a future in which windows, countertops and even walls covered with displays. Since the OLED-panels can take any form, they are flexible and transparent, they have a real potential for augmented reality in the future.
According to analysts the company IHS Technology, the world has seen growth in the number of patent applications for technologies for flexible OLED-displays.
Earlier, we reported that the LG will invest $ 1 billion in flexible and foldable displays.
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