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Has LG made a big quantum in OLED TV product?

LG is the just name in OLED at the moment

Everyone knows that if you tin go it working, OLED offers far superior picture operation in practically every way that we tin can measure.

It's also thinner and lighter, easier to curve if that'south your affair, has a faster response time, wider viewing angles and has far better ability efficiency compared to LED. It's the holy grail of brandish engineering science.

The problem is that the beginning great OLED breakthrough was hailed as far back as 2008 when Sony put the showtime OLED Television set on sale - the minuscule xi-inch XEL-one which cost $227 per inch for a full price of $2,499.

And since then, progress has been slower than a Windows Vista BloatTop common cold boot.

At this year's IFA show in Berlin, OLED products were every bit rare as plasma - a technology that anybody has now abandoned, including LG.

Sony, Panasonic, Samsung have all mouthed a lot of phonetic OLED-shaped noises in contempo years, but it seems that only LG has found a manufacturing method that really works. The total HD 55EA9800 came out earlier this year and yeah, it was a little fleck good.

Now though, LG is starting to sound bullish about OLED finally coming of historic period and is ready to start launching 4K OLED products.

The LG 65EC970V is a 4K OLED TV, out in November

LG's plan for OLED

"The progress that LG has made here should non be dismissed. It'southward existent, genuine progress."

It opened its new M2 factory before this twelvemonth, where it's able to build OLED panels using its unique Oxide TFT maskless WRGB production process which is a lot more simple and has better yield rates.

As a upshot, this year LG will be able to produce double the number of panels compared to 2013, using the aforementioned amount of materials. In theory that means more OLED TVs at more agreeable prices.

So does this mean the floodgates are almost to open for OLED? I asked LG this question at its Slough HQ this week and the answer wasn't overly positive.

"Our total Hd OLED TV yield rate is actually quite high", Mr K I Kwon, president of LG Electronics Uk, told TechRadar.

"Information technology's non compared with LCD Television receiver module yield rate but it's plenty to lower the price to £3000 in UK. And as y'all have seen we now have our M2 line factory which can make 6 55-inch modules in 1 piece of drinking glass and for 65-inch three from one slice of glass at the same fourth dimension, whereas in M1 65-inch tin make one.v each time which means that one third of the glass [is wasted]. So I believe the toll and yield rate will be higher immediately and the toll volition be downwards."

That's not exactly a promise for the start of a new era.

Reading between the lines you lot can see that while progress is being made, whichever style you look at it we're nonetheless some distance from a globe where OLED TVs of all shapes and sizes are available at the current prices of LED TVs.

New 4K OLED TVs

The good news, though, is that LG'due south beginning 4K OLED TV will ship in November - I've seen it and can adjure that the 65-inch curved LG 65EC970V is stunning. But the cost? £6,499 in the UK - over 10,000 US dollars. A 77-inch model will exist hot on its heels - don't even ask how much that one costs.

This is all both encouraging and discouraging in equal measure out. Yeah it's too expensive for most of us. But at the same fourth dimension, the progress that LG has made should not be dismissed. It'southward existent, genuine progress.

It'south plant a way to make the panels reliably and that bodes very well for the 4K OLED TVs of the future that maybe we will be able to afford. 2016, nosotros're looking at you buddy.

Meanwhile, the aforementioned LG 55EA9800 OLED may not pack a 4K resolution merely yous tin discover information technology online now for just £2000 - that's in line with other top of the line 55-inch 1080p TVs. We're in a position now where we tin at least conceive of a world where 4K OLED TVs from LG will start falling in price annually.

And you lot can bet that with LG finally making money from OLED, its rivals will be doubling their efforts to get involved.

So there's definitely hope for OLED, but as has been the instance for some fourth dimension now, we're still in the wait-and-see phase. Don't delay buying that new TV, basically. And certainly don't hold your jiff. But don't write OLED off, either.

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James was part of the TechRadar editorial squad for viii years up until 2015 and at present works in a senior position for TR'south parent company Time to come. An experienced Content Director with a demonstrated history of working in the media production industry. Skilled in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), East-commerce Optimization, Journalism, Digital Marketing, and Social Media. James can do information technology all.