Not content with having the largest production OLED model on the market today, LG is doubling its size in time for the IFA electronics show next month, where it’ll show off a 31-inch panel.
Rub-a-dub-dub, it’s Whirlpool’s Sub-Tub concept. Perfect for small flats in imaginary-land, the OLED TV lid folds down for access to the basin and mirror. Check it out:
DuPont has excelled where no man has before – demonstrating the first OLED panels to be printed, and in under two minutes no less. Using a Dainippon Screen multi-nozzle printer they successfully created a 50-inch display.
It’s going to be another couple of years until Korean rival LG begins producing 40-inch OLEDs, but already Samsung is talking of trialling 42-inch OLED TVs later this year.
Sony may be winding down its OLED operations in Japan, but over in South Korea OLED is big business for LG – with news coming in today saying they’re investing a whopping $US225.7 million into tripling production. But who’s buying?
Already on sale in its native Korea, LG’s 15-inch EL9500 OLED TV (the ultra-styled origami-like set) has been listed on Amazon UK for £1970 – or $US2966.
Both 15 and 19-inchers have been shown off by LG, but they want to add another inch before mass-producing their OLED range this year. Next year they’ll raise the bar again with 30-inch panels, and in 2012, a 40-inch OLED.
