LG’s new OLED gaming TV looks like a bookshelf and we dig it

LG had simply unveiled its newest flagship TV and it’s a baffling mixture of bookshelf and TV. The essential know-how of the brand new LG Signature OLED T display is a clear OLED panel that’s held in a steel body that appears like a minimalist piece of furnishings. Once you need to watch the display, a black canvas rolls up behind the panel, making the picture seen.

The brand new LG TV was revealed at its CES 2024 press convention, the place the corporate demonstrated the compelling means for the display to have a picture seem nearly from nowhere. In reality, the clear OLED panel isn’t really solely clear, so it’s not a completely convincing trick, nevertheless it does open up a world of fascinating new methods to make use of and place a TV.

For example, you could possibly have a TV like this in entrance of a window and it wouldn’t fully block the view till in use. Likewise, you could possibly use it as a room divider – like the favored manner many individuals use backless bookshelves to interrupt up an area – permitting you to see via out of your kitchen, say, via to your friends within the eating/residing house. Or you could possibly simply have it towards a wall that has some artwork you continue to need to see.

That’s why LG has designed the TV to have this in any other case barely unusual bookshelf body look. Not solely does the TV want the depth to retailer the rolled-up blackout display and supply some safety for the in any other case easy-to-miss display however the body actually lends itself to being a chunk of furnishings.

LG has additional embraced this concept by having the brains of the TV fully housed in a field that sits on one of many TV’s cabinets. In reality, the TV is totally wi-fi aside from this field, additional enhancing the marginally magic really feel of this TV.

As for the gaming credentials of this new panel, there isn’t truly something too notable as in comparison with many different OLED TVs. Nevertheless, that is nonetheless an enormous 4K 120Hz OLED so it’s going to supply a compelling expertise for many video games no matter whether or not you’re plugging in a console or gaming PC.

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