The first of LG’s convention-defying Curved OLED TVs will be in Korean living rooms in just over a month. According to an LG Korea press release posted by Engadget, pre-orders for the TV will start on April 29th, while the first deliveries will begin sometime in June. The 55-inch set measures 4.3 millimeters in thickness and will sell for 15 million Korean won, or about $13,515 — a premium of about $3,600 over the company’s identically-sized, but tragically two-dimensional, OLED TV.
LG first unveiled the curved TV at CES in January, but given the slow roll-out of LG’s current 55-inch OLED (it was announced in January, 2012 but just made it to market two months ago), we figured it would be a while before the Curved OLED started shipping. No plans have been announced for a US release, but we’ll be watching for more details.
Comments
talk about bad viewing angles
By rickrizzo on 04.28.13 9:37pm
It’s not about “viewing angles”, it’s about the perfect viewing experience when a combination of proper set placement and proper seat placement is used.
By numberoneoppa on 04.28.13 9:46pm
I was only kidding…
By rickrizzo on 04.28.13 10:44pm
except for the huge vertical separation between the screens. This is a ridiculous product for people with more money than sense.
By schemedbynick on 04.29.13 12:15am
I think those are just 3 TVs. It’s only supposed to be 55 inch.
By Paperclips on 04.29.13 1:24am
Even with excellent viewing angles, I’ve never watched TV from anything close to 170 degrees
By Artstate on 04.28.13 9:59pm
Kind of hard to tell from the picture, but the curve looks quite minimal and makes me wonder whether it actually makes any difference at all to the viewing experience.
By VoxMediaUser859221 on 04.29.13 12:25am
Looks pretty cool, but that sure it huge price increase for what’s basically just slightly improved visual aesthetic of the TV itself. Even more crazy when you can now actually buy 4ks tvs under this.
By BlatantNinja23 on 04.28.13 9:38pm
No thanks. At those prices I prefer true color.
By MiguelAngel on 04.28.13 9:45pm
Then calibrate it.
By numberoneoppa on 04.28.13 9:47pm
Even if you calibrate it you’ll never get true color that you’ll get from a nice LCD panel.
By My Only Name Change on 04.28.13 9:55pm
lcd? give me a break. You don’t know a thing about TVs.
By StinDaWg on 04.28.13 10:21pm
SED is where it’s at.
(Well, it would be if it was available).
By lewis82 on 04.28.13 10:24pm
Good memory :) . I wish SED would make a comeback.
By Insomniac on 04.29.13 2:38am
LED IPS panels currently offer the best color accuracy. Plasma and OLED are both oversaturated color wise.
By My Only Name Change on 04.28.13 11:27pm
Plasma>>Washed out TV. Compare a LCD/LED next to a Plasma. Plasma kills it every time. Even my Mid-Range Samsung PN51E530 looked better the higher end LCD/LED. Can’t wait to see a OLED TV in person one day in the US.
By J-Hop2o6 on 04.28.13 11:38pm
Do note i’m talking about color accuracy.
Popping colors may look nice, but it doesn’t make them accurate.
By My Only Name Change on 04.28.13 11:42pm
I know what you’re saying. But its still Plasma>>LCD/LED overall to my eyes. No washed out colors, deeper blacks, and uniformity.
By J-Hop2o6 on 04.29.13 12:01am
If anyone actually cared about colour accuracy, top end TVs would still be CRTs.
By nyx on 04.29.13 12:51am
This. When it comes down to it, there is little reason to have a color accurate TV. If you want color accuracy, get one of the IPS monitors that support 1.07 billion colors. You are not going to find color accuracy in a TV nor should you care.
By wackyanimation on 04.29.13 1:26am
Definitely true that CRT still wins on natural colours and contrast, but it was obviously never going to be a feasible technology for a big screen experience (using anything other than a giant CRT projector). CRT also had its own set of problems like interlacing, geometric distortion, flicker, colour bleeding and of course sheer bulkiness and expense.
Plasma technology has come a long way over the last 15 years, and if properly calibrated a good quality Plasma model offers the closet colours and contrast to CRT of all the (affordable) flat panel technologies, but it admittedly still doesn’t beat CRT’s inky deep black levels. However OLED’s perfect blacks apparently give it CRT-like contrast ratios. I’m yet to see one, but most A/V reviewers seem to agree it provides the best picture quality of all the flat panel technologies yet.
By Insomniac on 04.29.13 3:02am
Ever heard of a Kuro? You guys are clowns about tvs here
By D2S on 04.29.13 2:20am
Panasonic deserve a mention too (yes I know they bought Kuro :) ). In fact now is a good time to buy a Panasonic plasma at a great price, given they are ceasing production of them soon.
By Insomniac on 04.29.13 3:05am
They are not stopping production, just research. They will still be making plasmas until they see fit to stop.
By TeeJayRex on 04.29.13 9:19am
I was about to say that. Pioneer seems to be unheard of. They make Samsung and LG TVs look like cheap Chinese knock offs.
By Emmanuel A. on 04.29.13 5:13am