LG announces 55" OLED tv for 2012

Fyeah!

LG display's CEO Kwon Young Soo told The Korean Times that his company ''may (or maybe not blablabla...) release a 55 inch OLED TV sometime in the latter half of next year'' .

recently digitalversus came up with this from the lab: incredible results from mystery new TV technology, turned out to be a xbr hx929, blablabla.... , LG should buy digitalversus, they are made for each other.

Mike,
Take that with a grain of salt.

"LG is apparently tired of this tiny OLED stuff. 15-inch TVs and 4-inch cellphones? What is this, 2009? The company has decided it's time to super-size the organically-powered panels and plans to introduce a 55-inch HDTV in mid 2012. We've got faith it can deliver too -- last summer the Korean manufacturer was showing off a 31-inch model (above) and it sounds like it's shifting focus completely towards larger sizes. CEO Kwon Young-soo has said that IPS technology is much better suited for the mobile space. Of course, LG has promised impressively-sized panels before and, even if such a set does make it to market, chances are you'll have to take out a second mortgage to afford one."

How many times LG has promised to bring an OLED to the market?
Anyway, just the week prior to that report, I saw this in the Korea Times website:

"While Samsung is investing heavily in OLEDs and flexible displays, LG Display is still passive on the faster migration of next-generation displays saying LCDs with better viewing quality are good enough to attract big firms such as Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP)."

Im so tired of being depressed and negative about everything. The media, people everything is just so negative anymore. Im bringing back positive

I hear you. Think Austin 2012! Formula One for y'all!

OLED TV panels infeasible in cost until 2014, says AUO vice president

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Siu Han, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Thursday 28 July 2011]

While LG Display plans to offer 55-inch OLED TV panels, the production cost of large-sized OLED panels for use in TVs is currently much higher than that of LCD TV panels due to too low yield rates and therefore OLED TV panels are not feasible in commercial use until 2014, according to executive vice president Paul Peng for Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO).

Was that was same mystery TV that was reported to have viewing angles as good as plasma? At this point Digitalversus might as well be televisioninfo.

Yeah guys, don't be shy and put your bets on the price of the 55" OLED .

The better bet is when do you think it 'actually be available to the consumer". Who knows what the state of the economy will be by the time that thing is finally released, which best case scenario is probably a year and half out.

So the 15" that's "out" can't be bought in the U.S. The 31" is coming out "this year" with no price, no SKU, no release date. And next year, the 55" is "coming out"? These guys are a joke.

LG, Lots of Giggles.

I think we can put the probability of a 55" OLED being for sale in North America next year at less than 1%. We can put the probability of it being for sale in North America below $10,000 at less than 0.01%.

This thread should be updated when the 31" is for sale at major U.S. retailers. Until then, LG has proved its ability to generate press. What it has not done is prove its ability to produce OLED televisions.

Hmmm. Since this discussion clearly belongs in the "flat panel general" forum, which is here:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=40
is it just a coincidence that this thread was started on a weekend when it might be hoped there is no moderator to move it?

It's fine, the announcement is easily mocked in either location.

It does belong in "Flat Panels..." not "LCD..." but whatever, just report the thread and it'll get moved once one of the guys sees it.

I doubt the original poster was trying to slip something by the mods on a weekend. I doubt anyone seriously following this believes there is a chance in Hades of this happening anyway. I understand the people with a cursory interest seeing the news and believing it -- they aren't gullible; they just figure LG is a multi-billion-dollar company and this is some kind of actual announcement. LG is, but this isn't. And really LG is the Boy Who Cried OLED. In fact, from now on I'm going to refer to them as BWCO.

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First show me a model at CES. Then give me a shipping date and a price. Then I'll believe LG will be selling a 55" OLED.

2 september the IFA starts in Berlin IFA - Home , the rumour is that sumsung wants to introduce the Galaxy-Q with a 5.3 inch super-amoled-plus, but folks will forget quickly about that since LG will show us the 55 inch OLED prototype.

What's the Galaxy Q? Some sort of obese mobile phone?

kind of.

http://pocketnow.com/android/samsung...isplay-for-ifa

Actually, I personally will be producing and selling a 70" oled display
by next year.

This is great news. It ain't SED, but what the heck, I'll take it.

LADIES AND GENTS, its now time to enter the future.

Eep, that sounds horrendous as a phone. And ridiculously small as a tablet. It does sound useful as a "bigger iPod Touch", but I'm guessing the category of not-really-pocketable (by normal people, I understand 20-somethings with cargo pants find 7" Galaxy Tabs "pocketable") micro-tablets is fairly small.

I look forward to seeing one in the wild though.

Rogo I like you as a poster, but why do you always come into the OLED threads daily to say OLED will not happen? Even if you believe this, we could use all the hope we can instead of negativeity

I don't come here for hope, I come here for accurate information. Thanks Rogo.

I can't wait for OLED. It will spell the death of LCD.

Then we can quit hearing "I just bought a Samsung LED"...

http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=reality+bites

Seriously, this shooting the messenger stuff is old. The notion that LG can put out a bogus "announcement" but I can't call it bogus is ludicrous.

Yes, because Rogo works for LG and knows this isn't coming out for fact.

Rogo, Is it true that you are an LG employee directly or indirectly?

I do not work for LG, directly or indirectly. What I've said, however, stands:

I am extraordinarily dubious that LG will ship a 55" OLED TV anywhere next year, especially in the U.S. This stems in large part from their failure to deliver the 15" OLED that is supposedly "available" but is not purchasable anywhere I can find and the lack of evidence they will deliver their 31" this year as promised.

Further, if they do indeed deliver a 55" OLED next year, however unlikely, I believe the price will be astronomical and the availability will be infinitesimal.

I have no idea why these positions would even be slightly controversial. They seem borderline axiomatic.

LG current 3.5G fab has motherglass size of around 31" and their 8G dream is 2H11(tentatively for now). Period.

PS doesn't it sound ludicrous that LG say there is no market for mobile OLED when they built a 3.5G fab? Talk about incompetence and incoherence.

You need counseling. You're in big trouble if you need hope that OLED "will happen", more so if you need said hope from this forum.