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CES 2013: LG Unveils Curved Flatscreen OLED TV

By Rain Noe - January 10, 2013

in Consumer Electronics

Like rival Samsung, LG also caused a stir with their new TV offering, seen above. (I apologize for the crappy photos, but it was a real jostle-fest.) The EA9800 series is freaking curved, providing truly equidistant viewing to the corners, assuming you're sitting dead-center. The OLED display can also support 3D, which is why the second image looks janky; it looked a lot more impressive through the glasses.

Honestly this seems more a demonstration of manufacturing might than a design innovation that consumers will enjoy, but time and the market will tell. Samsung reportedly announced their own curved televisions just moments before LG, and I like to see this kind of competition--it means sooner or later one of them will be driven to produce a breakthrough the other cannot match, and assuming their designers are clued in, we'll hopefully see something a bit more profound.

In the meantime, I think the curved screen technology would actually best be targeted to art directors, 3D modelers and video editors, people who spend their lives in front of a screen manipulating images, and typically from a fixed position.

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Steve

11 years ago

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How can it be a curved, flat screen? It can only be one or the other...
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hoh

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Not sure you can do photo/video editing or graphical design on a curved screen. There would be visual distortions.

It might be more useful for people spending all day in front of screens manipulating datas: say traders in financial industry.
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kostas

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Ok. I guess we'll have to make curved walls in our living rooms from now on..
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