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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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Samsung’s QD-OLED TV challenges premium OLEDs with $2, 200 starting price

Enlarge / Samsung OLED (S95B) TV. (credit: Samsung) Samsung revealed new details for its highly anticipated QD-OLED TV on Thursday. The company’s first OLED TV in a decade costs $2, 200 for the 54. 6-inch model and $3, 000 for the 64. 5-inch model. Special hadn’t released an OLED TV since 2012 , but in […]

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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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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 […]