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LG lowers the price of its new 8K OLED TV—to $13, 000

Enlarge / LG’s prior 8K OLED TV (pictured) started at $19, 999. 99. (credit: LG ) 8K TVs aren’t that popular yet. There’s limited content to watch on them, and it can be hard to tell the difference between 4K and 8K resolutions in a home theater setup. But perhaps the most obvious obstacle is […]

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First “OLED EX” TVs announced, promising brighter high-contrast picture

Enlarge / Philips OLED807. (credit: TPVision) Philips has revealed the first TVs to use LG’s new type of OLED panel, OLED EX. The Philips OLED807 line of 4K HDR TVs announced Thursday doesn’t have a price, but it will be released in Europe sometime this year. OLED EX promises to increase brightness “up to 30 percent […]

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Explaining QD-OLED, Samsung’s display tech that’s wowing CES

Samsung’s 65-inch QD-OLED TV should be available this year. (credit: Samsung/CES) CES, the country’s largest tech show, is filled with exciting new products and would-be products. But one of my favorite things about the show is the spotlight it puts on the emerging technologies driving these product launches. One piece of next-generation tech generating buzz […]

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LG’s new 2022 OLED TVs add new sizes and better peak brightness

Enlarge / An LG TV in a marketing lifestyle image. (credit: LG) LG’s OLED TVs have dominated the conversation among high-end TV enthusiasts for a few years now, but the past couple have finally brought at least some OLED TVs to prices that middle-class households could afford. And like clockwork each year, LG attends the […]

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Upcoming LG TVs will address one of OLED’s biggest flaws

Enlarge (credit: LG ) Ever wish display tech had longer acronyms? LG Display’s here to help. Today, it introduced LG OLED EX, a proprietary OLED technology that’s supposed to be brighter than standard OLED. As you may know already, OLED stands for organic light emitting diode. The EX part of OLED EX, according to the […]

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LG OLED Shelf concept stacks two 55-inch transparent displays

Enlarge / LG Display’s OLED Shelf. (credit: LG Display) LG Display wants to make OLED panels a more compelling to consumers and is showing off some concepts in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The OLED Shelf concept uses two transparent, 55-inch OLED displays that LG Display initially commercialized in in 2019. They’re […]

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LG’s 16: 18 ultra-tall monitor means less scrolling

Enlarge / LG DualUp Monitor (28MQ780). (credit: LG) If you haven’t noticed, screens have been getting taller. Laptops are the most obvious example, with more of them opting for 16: 10 this year than we’ve seen in years, with even a 3: 2 aspect ratio being an option. LG has now brought this taller view […]

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With Intel 12th-gen CPUs looming, LG’s debut gaming laptop opts for 11th-gen

Enlarge / LG UltraGear 17G90Q. (credit: LG ) LG ELECTRONICS has carved out a small space for itself among mainstream users seeking an attractive, slim design. But now LG wants to push laptops toward gamers, and it has the RGB plus high refresh rate to prove it, alongside an interesting choice in components. A couple […]

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Stadia finally launches on LG TVs, shows off the greatness that could’ve been

Enlarge / The official Stadia Controller in “clearly white.” (credit: Google) In arguably the first good news for Stadia in 2021, Google’s beleaguered game-streaming service has finally landed on a single company’s TVs—and only those manufactured in 2020 and beyond. That’s not necessarily a reason to strike up the band and throw a “Stadia is […]

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LG is apparently working on its first Chromebook

Enlarge (credit: LG ) The market for Chromebooks is generally growing this year despite recent pandemic-related slowdowns , and it looks like more PC vendors are interested in releasing Chrome OS devices. The next in line may be LG. On October 18, a filing was listed with the Bluetooth SIG, the special interest group that […]