LG Goes Big With 55-Inch OLED, 84-Inch 3D TVs, Embraces Google Television
At its Consumer Electronics Display press conference, the organization also displayed an updated Magic Remote with a Kinect-esque 3D gesture interface and announced plans for its personal chipset, the L9.
The new 3D sets contain LG's Cinema Screen design and style, which reduces the dimension of the bezel around the gadgets to as little as 1mm.
LG first tipped its 84-inch 3D set in late December. The device consist of 8 million pixels and boasts a resolution of 3480-by-2160, 4 occasions the resolution discovered on complete HDTV sets. LG has dubbed it "Ultra Definition."
The business mentioned it went "to great lengths to decrease the thickness ... with out decreasing the image quality."
The 55-inch set, meanwhile (click below), is the world's greatest OLED Television panel, LG stated, and is 3D-capable. Most smaller-sized OLED displays use one thing known as Very low Temperature Poly Silicon (LTPS). LG stated this new, 55-inch model uses a technology known as Oxide TFT, which replaces Amorphous Silicon with Oxide, which is less expensive.
The 55-incher "is designed to display flawless, lifestyle-like photos through picture high quality that was technically impossible with prior LCD display panels," LG mentioned. "Boasting a contrast ratio of over a hundred,000,000:one, fifty occasions greater than LCD show panels, you get precise color, absolute contrast and blazing clarity."
LG will also use White OLED (WOLED), which emits white color light from the diode, top to "a reduce error rate, greater productivity, and a clearer Ultra Definition screen via the advantages of tiny pixels," LG said.
3DTVs had been a significant component of CES 2011, but they didn't really take off final year, thanks in component to a lack of enticing 3D content material and the need for bulky (and occasionally costly) 3D glasses. LG, nonetheless, stated its analysis exhibits that client demand for in-home 3D content material is expanding, consequently its new 3D lineup.
The new 3D sets, LG mentioned, will come with Cinema 3D glasses, which include curved lenses and are twenty percent lighter than their predecessor. They can be employed across LG's 3D products, such as smartphones, monitors, notebooks, and projectors.
LG also announced a engineering known as Dual Play, which allows two gamers to play against one yet another in the exact same game whilst viewing an completely distinct scene--a technologies that will replace the conventional split screen.
That will most likely include gesture-primarily based controls. LG's Magic Remote is obtaining an update with the addition of scrolling, gestures, and voice recognition. In the course of its presentation, LG pledged to introduce "an additional significant all-natural interface feature--3D gesture ... making use of a 3D digital camera."
"Not only can you use your hand to emulate the perform of the Magic Remote, you can also take pleasure in the video games that acknowledge complete body gestures," mentioned Dr. Scott Ahn, LG's chief engineering officer.
LG flashed an image on screen that looked really much like the Microsoft Kinect, prior to moving on to an additional slide that showed a person utilizing the Magic Remote to manage a game of Fruit Ninja through gestures, but it did not elaborate.
Yet another emerging engineering that has been slow to catch on with shoppers is Google Television, but LG is also embracing the search giant's interface (proper).
"We feel that we have some great techologies, this kind of as our Cinema 3D Magic Remote and dual-core L9 chipset, that would make an LG Google Tv a popular choice for numerous clients," Ahn mentioned.
LG decided to create its personal chipset, meanwhile, simply because "business chipsets have held us back from providing higher overall performance on our TVs," Ahn said. The L9 functions a dual-core ARM CPU architecture and quad-core GPU for enhanced 3D picture quality, he mentioned.
Pricing and availability for the new 3D sets have been not mentioned. LG will unveil a variety of Cinema 3D Smart TVs, such as 60-inch and 72-inch designs.
LG also additional to its smartphone lineup. For more, see PCMag's hands on with the new LG Viper and LG Spectrum.
Chloe Albanesius