LG unveils wallpaper OLED display, less than 1mm thick *updated with video!*

[Notional]

LG has unveiled an OLED wallpaper display

 

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean flat panel maker LG Display Co. showcased on Tuesday a detachable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel that sticks to the wall, renewing its pledge to focus on the high-end display as a future growth engine.

 

The 55" display is less than 1mm thick, at 0,97mm, compared to 4,3mm in their current OLED display line.

The display attaches to a wall, via magnets, as the display only weighs in at 1,9kg.

 

 

Update, now with video. Dammit OLED looks good!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h1MgIWLG1U

 

 

Damn sexy! (The woman too.. I guess).

 

This is not a consumer product, but a showcase of the newest OLED panel, by LG, and it's possibilities:

 

Yeo Sang-deog, the head of LG Display's OLED division, vowed to ramp up OLED production from the third quarter of this year to a substantial level that can meet clients' demand.

"We should be able to supply a satisfactory volume to our clients from July or August, which means we're hoping to buckle down production as well as promotion from the third quarter," he told reporters at a press conference held after the event.

 

"It has taken a year and half for us to raise the yield to this level (for OLEDs), while it'd taken nearly 10 years to achieve the yield for LCDs," he said.

 

Source: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/full/2015/05/19/80/1200000000AEN20150519006000320F.html

 

 

 

 

 

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My personal take:

 

As I've mentioned before, based in this article: http://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1411039923 OLED could become cheaper than LCD in the foreseeable future.

 

The first OLED TV's from LG had a yield around 20-30%, meaning 70-80% of all panels were defective, and had to be scrapped. In the last year, we've seen LG's OLED TV's plummet in price, due to yields hitting upwards to 80%. The LG rep states, that when yields reach 95%, it should be cheaper for LG to manufacture an OLED panel, compared to an LCD panel.

 

With cheaper OLED panels, higher panel output (production), getting even thinner as well, we should start seeing some really nice OLED TV's soon. When yields get high enough, and production facilities, can manage demand, we might start to see what everyone in here really wants: OLED monitors. Personally preferably 21:9 OLED curved monitors, with 9-240hz Adaptive Sync support (remember that OLED has a response time under 0.01ms, giving a theoretical refresh rate of 100.000 hz (100 kilohertz!).

 

Until then, I'll settle for a wall paper tv, less than 2mm from the wall (with magnet holder).

[C0LL0SS0S]

Imagine, having wallpapers that show, sunset when GF is over and Linus showing off his wet butt when she's gone

 

@LinusTech we need more HQ shots of your pants

[Tagiau]

Ahh good, the future is here sooner than expected. Now all we need is self powered potatoes. 

[tsk]

Sweet Jesus that is nice. Now OLED monitors please.

[Manny Calavera]

finally.

 

man, monitors are evolving fast right now.

[Bouzoo]

Wow. Just wow. I'll take 20.

[Domifi]

kind of remembers me of Back To The Future

[Thony]

Now let linus do his flex test

Great news i guess. Monitora can get thinner in the near future. Not the ones with G-sync i guess...

[CommandMan7]

100,000 hertz refresh rate. 

[Crazda]

Can i haz plz

[-TesseracT-]

100,000 hertz refresh rate.

no tearing!

[Misanthrope]

Emm, not sure I want a display that common house insects can chew through though.

[CommandMan7]

From what my (probably wrong) calculations show, it would take 1,608,192 HDMI 2.0 cables to push 4k @ 100,000 FPS. Total bandwidth of around 29 petabytes per second. Google uses 24.3 Petabytes bandwidth per day. Sources irrelevant, these calculations are just for funsies.

[SurvivorNVL]

I'll take twenty.  As well as the woman in the picture.

[Notional]

Added a second picture of awesomeness!

[Ostwind]

[jaggysnake57]

oled is the future....i called this kind of tech 5 years back (just not on here)....rolled up phones will happen

[That Norwegian Guy]

I want the day to arrive where I can have an OLED pickguard on my guitar. Let me play you the movie of my people while I play you the song of my people.

 

 

oled is the future....i called this kind of tech 5 years back (just not on here)....rolled up phones will happen

 

 

Hilarious, the above "wallpaper dream" of OLED theory has been around in articles since 2005.

[.spider.]

no tearing!

Nope

[Enferk]

First i thought this to be some kind joke but it seems to be real thing. Well done LG  B)

[MoonSpot]

I'll take twenty.  As well as the woman in the picture.

Not for me.  Anyone how puts their greasy palms on a screen is written off.  Finger prints are bad enough.

[Delusional Phil]

I need life support ... Can't breath .... 

[Mattyd7829]

at less than 1mm thiick, I would be more concerned at actual tearing than just image tearing lol

[Sauron]

This is not a consumer product

 

 

[Notional]

 

Don't worry, it's not a prototype as such, it is a panel in production, that other vendors, can use. So even though we might not see these displays as on the images, we will see the panels in products, some time this year it seems.