LG to show a 55" 8K OLED TV prototype next month at CES 2015

According to C|Net, LG Display developed a 55" 8K (7680x4320, 160 PPI) OLED TV prototype panel, and the Korean company will show this prototype next month at CES 2015.

LG 55-inch FHD OLED TV

This panel, which has a total of 33.2 million pixel and a brightness of 500 nits, has over 20 display drivers ICs inside (apparently these were developed in collaboration with NVidia), and was already produced in early November. LG is actually planning to commercialize this display, even though many people will argue that it doesn't make much sense to have such a high resolution in a 55" display. A nice technical achievement by LGD in any case.

In terms of the OLED technology itself, we've seen smaller prototype and commercial displays with much higher densities. Earlier this year, SEL and sharp unveiled a 13.3" 8K OLED prototype - which reaches 664 PPI. Samsung reportedly managed to produce a 5.9" 4K AMOLED - which if true, is the highest density OLED ever developed at 746 PPI!

Source: CNet

Posted: Dec 14,2014 by Ron Mertens

Comments

This will be great as a computer monitor, uhd is just way too low. This will give 288ppi or 300% text quality for a 2560x1440 desktop area. Smartphones with 2560 displays already have even sharper text. Ideally i would like a 10240x6400 display for a 2560x1600 desktop area at 384ppi text quality but this will have to do. Im skeptical this will be available anytime soon though.

Getting really sick of people qqing about 16:10 displays... there is a reason they are dead, they sucked balls.

If you need a "speciality displays" go look at speciality stores and pay accordingly. But as far as a unified standart for everything - 16:9 IS better. But i think the best unfied single standart would be 2:1 aspect ratio.