If there's one tech company pushing OLED development forward it has to be LG, and today that commitment to the display technology was clear once again with a very impressive world first. What you see in the images included here is a 77-inch OLED display sporting a 4K resolution that's also transparent and flexible.
This display is impressive because of the combination of features it manages to include. A 77-inch OLED display on it's own is a fantastic achievement, but to also support 4K output, be transparent, and very flexible just adds to what LG managed to achieve here.
As you've probably guessed already, this isn't a display aimed at the home user. According to ZDNet, LG is looking at digital signage, smart desks, augmented reality, and even car displays as markets for this type of screen. And the reason this huge display exists is thanks in part to South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy.
The brief the ministry had was to create an Ultra HD transparent and flexible OLED display larger than 60-inches in order for the country to remain competitive with displays coming out of China and Taiwan. It took LG nearly five years, but they've delivered the brief.
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The display is capable of outputting Ultra HD visuals at a resolution of 3840-by-2160 with transparency rated at 40 percent. As for flexibility, it can be rolled up like a tube with a radius of 80mm. You can imagine how much easier that makes shipping such a huge screen.
Where there's innovation, mass market production usually follows. If LG has the capability to make such flexible displays reliably, it shouldn't take long before we get consumer units appearing. A 50-inch OLED 4K TV that gets delivered in a tube sounds fantastic to me. Hopefully it happens soon.
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