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SolarEagle Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: by the beach in Florida Posts: 33392 Good Answers: 1817	Now That's a Thin TV 05/20/2015 5:37 PM
	LG shows off it's <1mm thick OLED screen.... "The future is here. Tech and sci-fi lovers have been fantasizing for decades about screens so thin they can be used as wallpaper. But all we've seen are small, plastic-backed OLED panels that look like tiny science experiments. Now LG, the only company making OLED TVs, has debuted a 55-inch screen that measures under a millimeter thick (0.97mm, or 0.038 inches, to be precise). LG showed off the screen to the Korean press yesterday (May 19), reports Yonhap News Agency. Weighing 4.2 pounds, the screen is a lot heavier than real wallpaper, but light enough that it can stick to the wall with a "magnetic mat," Yonhap reports. LG didn't give any word on when, if ever, this ultra-thin OLED would become a product, or what it might cost, but it certainly won't be cheap." http://www.tomsguide.com/us/lg-wallpaper-oled-screen,news-20951.html __________________ All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
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jack of all trades Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 8777 Good Answers: 376	#1 Re: Now That's a Thin TV 05/20/2015 8:28 PM
	Probably a marketing ploy to help drive sales of standard LG OLED screens, because the cost to produce is likely enormous in small quantities (there is no mass market for these that I can think of). Still an amazing display of technology and a big middle finger to the competition. __________________ jack of all trades
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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#2 Re: Now That's a Thin TV 05/20/2015 10:58 PM
	That's more--and better--than a thin TV.... __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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Don from Oz Guru Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 650 Good Answers: 16	#3 Re: Now That's a Thin TV 05/21/2015 10:34 PM
	Already have a NEGATIVE THICKNESS screen .... much better than LG's 1mm thick unit. I call it the 'Russian' solution! It should be a hit with the recycle fraternity that might also include a new demand for cardboard and a Stanley modelling knife. __________________ DY
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jack of all trades Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 8777 Good Answers: 376	#4 In reply to #3 Re: Now That's a Thin TV 05/21/2015 11:40 PM
	Why not just cut a hole in the wall and flush mount it. Ideally some sort of weather cover for the TV would be advisable. __________________ jack of all trades
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Anonymous Poster #1	#5 Re: Now That's a Thin TV 05/22/2015 11:03 AM
	At that thickness it must be terribly fragile.
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SolarEagle Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: by the beach in Florida Posts: 33392 Good Answers: 1817	#6 In reply to #5 Re: Now That's a Thin TV 05/22/2015 11:22 AM
	__________________ All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
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