By Charles Annis DisplaySearch Apple’s widely-anticipated entry into the smart watch market would be the company’s first major new product foray in several years. With Apple’s unparalleled functionality and design capabilities, as well as market clout, the “iWatch” could be just what smart watches need to move into the mainstream. In addition, the iWatch will […]
Just prior to InfoComm, we received a pre-briefing on LG’s plans for display products for the digital signage market. Now, we can tell you more about the company’s signage display plans. In the briefing, the company started by noting key requirements for various market segments. For example, in the transportation segment, 24/7 operation and self […]
rAVe founder, Gary Kayye, caught up with LG’s Director of Signage Sales, Dan Smith, and he filled us in on all that’s going on inside one of the largest players in digital signage — including a giant 47” transparent LCD display. Watch the video here:
Most manufacturers and consumers think a UHD TV should have 3860×2160 color pixels, which typically is understood to mean red, green and blue (RGB) subpixels make up one color pixel. That understanding is now being challenged as subpixel structures using red, green, blue and white (RGBW) and red, green, blue and yellow (RGBY) are increasingly […]
The new curve TVs are an interesting display development that found much traction since first released in 2013. New LCD models were introduced at the recent CES and follow-up DSE trade shows in January and February respectively. Some see the new curved large display as a gimmick, and that it is an example of engineers […]
ISE 2014: LG Introduces Transfective LED Panel
By Paul Gagnon DisplaySearch Along with my colleagues, I attended the LGE US press conference this morning to kick off our coverage of CES 2014. LGE has held the opening press conference at CES on Press Day for a number of years now, and the press corps was in full attendance. Other key unveilings were […]
At CES next month, both Samsung and LG will introduce 105″, curved displays featuring UHD resolution. The displays will offer a 21:9 CinemaScope resolution that’s 5120X2160 pixels — that’s 11 million pixels. Samsung’s new display offers what the company calls a “new proprietary picture quality algorithm” for delivering optimized color and depth. It also has […]
At CES next month, LG will introduce a new wireless audio system (the NP8740) that runs on mesh network technology, which uses dual band Wi-Fi (2.5/5GHz). The speakers can be set up in any combination of rooms, connecting an entire house or a single room. The network makes it possible for users to play a […]
Integrated Systems Events announced this week that Dr. Dirk Schlesinger, the global lead for manufacturing industries of Cisco Consulting Services, will present the opening keynote address of ISE 2014. Schlesinger’s address, “Kick-Starting the Market for Building Automation,” will give attendees an exclusive insight into how a new cross-industry initiative set up by Cisco, ABB, Bosch […]
The New Jersey version of the Almo Pro A/V E4 AV Tour was held last week in the Meadowlands Exposition Center and not only did it set an attendance record for a New York area show, at over 600, but it was also an all-time attendance record for the four year AV Tour. If you’re […]
As with all new display technologies, the first generation is expensive, but we expect the second generation of curved OLEDs from both LG and Samsung will be half the $15,000 list price these new 55″ displays carry at today’s official launch in New York City. OLED has been talked about for years, and at InfoComm, […]
The industry consortium that certifies Audio Video Bridging (AVB) products for interoperability, has added four new member companies to its alliance: Bose Corporation, LG, Arrive Systems and Revolabs. Standing at 55 global members, AVnu Alliance is a consortium of professional AV, automotive and consumer electronics companies working together to drive certification and interoperability of open […]
AVnu Alliance, the industry consortium that certifies Audio Video Bridging (AVB) products for interoperability, has introduced four new member companies to the Alliance: Bose Corporation, LG, Arrive Systems and Revolabs. We’ve written about the AVB Alliance a lot, as well as its competitive standard HDBaseT. If you don’t have a clue what we’re talking about, you’d better get educated as, […]
By Ken Werner By my count, LG missed three promised deadlines last year for the commercial introduction of its 55-inch OLED-TV set. Samsung, apparently never happy with the idea of bringing OLED-TVs to market before their time, grudgingly said it, too, would introduce a 55-inch OLED-TV in 2012, but when LG missed its final deadline of […]
LG has added to to its home entertainment range the new Hecto TV system, which the company says projects HD video onto a 100” screen from just about 22” away. An impressive (specs-wise) home cinema system, the 100” Laser TV includes an immersive screen and an external Ultra Short Throw (UST) projection unit capable of […]
LG showed the first “Ultra High-Definition” 4K digital signage display (the commercial version of the LG 84-inch class Ultra HD TV) at ISE in Amsterdam last month and it will be back at DSE (the Digital Signage Expo) this week in Vegas. In fact, when you land in Vegas, look around — two LG 84” […]
Both Samsung and LG claim to have brought “the world’s first curved OLED TV” to CES 2013. The curved OLED TVs are both 55″ displays that appear concave when viewed from the front and even more bent from the sides. Apparently the shape improves on viewing angles, even if an over-enthusiastic Samsung PR describes it […]
Entering next week’s CES, Korean-based LG hopes to steal some of Samsung’s thunder with its own set of Smart TVs with two new TV series – the 47″ and 55″ GA-7900 series (the company’s new flagship line) and the 42″, 47″, 50″, 55″ and 60″ GA6400 series. Both sets will include Smart TV apps such […]
Both Sony and LG have shipped their first generation 4K resolution (3840×216) HDTVs to retailers this week, so you’ll see them in Best Buy and others shortly. Both manufacturers shipped their 84″ version first. Hmm, coincidence? Or maybe they’re made on the exact same assembly line. Sony’s, dubbed the XBR-84X900 and listing for $25,000, is […]
New York’s attorney general said today that three new LCD manufacturers will pay $571 million to settle claims that they conspired to inflate the price of LCD screens — this time its LG, Toshiba and AU Optronics. This follows a December 2011 settlement for $553 million with seven other LCD manufacturers, with $240 million of […]
Pacific Media Associates (PMA) has released its findings on the current use and future purchase intentions of consumer projector users. This is the final set of important results from PMA’s sixth biennial large-scale (1000 responses) and statistically-representative survey of United States users and intenders of front projectors, both individual consumers and organizations. The survey focused […]
LG’s famed 55″ OLED will start shipping in late April, costing about $8,000. The LG 55EM9600 debuted at CES and is the largest OLED to ship so far. OLED offers better blacks (and also, whiter whites) than LCD technology and less power usage due to its structure, which is basically a 100 percent solid-state compound […]
Fresh out of the gate here at CES minus one, aka, “Press Day,” the hot rivalry between Samsung and LG just turned white-hot at the blockbuster introductions of not one, but two, 55-inch OLED TVs (using two different technologies) from the two Korean CE giants. First came LG’s 55-inch OLED (uses white OLED, plus a […]
In what will be the largest OLED flat panel to actually see the market, LG will launch a 55″ OLED display next week at the CES show in Las Vegas. In addition to being big, it’s expected to be less than 3.5 mm thick. Yes, that’s right, that would be less than 2/10ths of an […]
VIZIO announced last week that it has signed a settlement agreement together with cross license agreements ending a patent dispute with LG Electronics, Inc. that began in 2008. The settlement encompasses actions that LGE and VIZIO filed in the U.S., including in the International Trade Commission resulting in various orders and determinations. The terms of […]
In the third such move in a month, a new device was announced that can stream Netflix movies directly onto the television. Previous announcements included players from Roku and Xbox. Only THIS time, it’s LG, and THIS time, it’s combined with a Blu-ray player. LG and Netflix announced plans for the first Blu-ray disc player […]
Many view LG’s decision to close its oldest plasma manufacturing plant as representative of a continuing decline in the plasma TV market. LG is closing one plant, and announced it will not increase production in the other two plants. The Wall Street Journal reports that this means production will go from 430,000 panels to 360,000 […]