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LG's 2022 OLED TVs Now Available, Starting at $1,400 for 42-inch Size

LG's 2022 OLED TVs Now Available, Starting at $1,400 for 42-inch Size

For the last few years my favorite high-end TV has been an LG OLED model, but for 2022 there's more competition than ever. LG's archrival Samsung has an OLED TV too, promising better color thanks to QD-OLED technology. Sony offers two different kinds of OLED, including a QD-OLED of its own that looks pretty sweet in person. And more and more TV makers are offering mini-LED models, which promise excellent image quality for much less money than OLED.

Meanwhile LG has started rolling out the widest array of OLED TVs yet, with five series offering sizes from 42 to 97 inches and prices from $1,400 to $25,000. First announced at CES 2022 in January, these TVs are hitting stores and online now. I haven't had the chance to review any of them yet, but based on my past experience and what I've seen so far, I expect LG's 2022 OLED TVs to continue to be among the best TVs on the market.

The improvement I'm most intrigued to test is improved brightness on the "Evo" models in the C2 and G2 series -- LG is claiming peak brightness of 20 percent and 30 percent higher than its non-Evo TVs. That punchier picture is due to new "brightness boost" (on the C2) and "brightness boost max" (on the G2) processing as well as a new heat dissipation technology, which is only available on the G2.

Here's a look at prices in the C2 and G2 series, along with a reminder that they will undoubtedly fall quite a bit as the year progresses. 

LG G2 and C2 2022 OLED TV pricing

Series	Model	Size	Price	Availability	Gallery Design	Evo Brightness Booster
G2	OLED97G2PUA	97	TBD	TBD	Yes	Yes (Max)
G2	OLED83G2PUA	83	$6,500	April	Yes	Yes (Max)
G2	OLED77G2PUA	77	$4,000	March	Yes	Yes (Max)
G2	OLED65G2PUA	65	$3,000	March	Yes	Yes (Max)
G2	OLED55G2PUA	55	$2,200	April	Yes	Yes (Max)
C2	OLED83C2PUA	83	$5,500	March	No	Yes
C2	OLED77C2PUA	77	$3,500	March	No	Yes
C2	OLED65C2PUA	65	$2,500	March	No	Yes
C2	OLED55C2PUA	55	$1,800	March	No	Yes
C2	OLED48C2PUA	48	$1,500	March	No	No
C2	OLED42C2PUA	42	$1,400	May	No	No

How they compare to QD-OLED models, and other high-end TVs, remains to be seen, but it's interesting to me that Samsung's QD-OLED costs the same as the best (on paper) LG, the G2 series: $3,000 at 65 inches and $2,200 at 55 inches. Sony has yet to announce pricing on its QD-OLED TVs, but I expect it to be a couple hundred dollars higher.

Meanwhile the LG C2 costs significantly less -- $2,500 at 65 and $1,800 at 55 inches -- and on paper the only picture quality difference between it and the G2 is 10% less brightness, something I doubt most viewers will be able to appreciate. It's worth noting that the smaller 42- and 48-inch members of the C2 series lack the higher brightness.

The C2 will get an Evo panel in 2022, but LG says it won't be quite as bright as the G2.

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In the meantime, here are the other changes to LG's 2022 lineup.

Gen 5 Alpha 9 processor: LG says upscaling has been improved to eliminate extra steps between less-than-4K and 4K resolution, and that dynamic tone mapping had 10 times the number of sampling blocks. I expect improvements to be minor, at best, but we'll see.

42-inch and 97-inch sizes: OLED TVs are still available in fewer screen size options than LCD/QLED models, but that gap will narrow further in 2022. The C2 series will get a smaller 42-inch size (shipping in May), while the G2 will add a positively enormous 97-inch version, the price and availability of which have yet to be announced.

The 97-inch G2 is the largest OLED TV yet.

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8K Z2 and entry-level B2, A2 models: We expect to concentrate our reviews on the C2 and G2 in 2022, but LG has three other new series on offer as well. The Z2 is the 8K resolution series, with the 88-inch size now wall-mountable and the 77-inch size getting a "gallery" design similar to the G2. The more-affordable B2 and A2 get lesser processors (Gen 5 Alpha 7) -- the B2 has a 120Hz refresh rate while the A2 is LG's sole 60Hz OLED for 2022. The A2 also lacks the HDMI 2.1 features, including 4K/120Hz input capability, found on the other 2022 LG OLEDs.

LG Z2, B2 and A2 2022 OLED TVs compared

Series	Model	Size	Price	Availability	Resolution	Processor	Refresh rate	HDMI version
Z2	OLED88Z2PUA	88	$25,000	April	8K	A9 Gen 5	120Hz	2.1
Z2	OLED77Z2PUA	77	$13,000	April	8K	A9 Gen 5	120Hz	2.1
B2	OLED77B2PUA	77	$3,300	March	4K	A7 Gen 5	120Hz	2.1
B2	OLED65B2PUA	65	$2,000	March	4K	A7 Gen 5	120Hz	2.1
B2	OLED55B2PUA	55	$1,500	March	4K	A7 Gen 5	120Hz	2.1
A2	OLED65A2PUA	65	TBD	TBD	4K	A7 Gen 5	60Hz	2.0
A2	OLED55A2PUA	55	TBD	TBD	4K	A7 Gen 5	60Hz	2.0

Design changes: The G2 retains the ultrathin "gallery" design from last year, allowing it to hug the wall more closely than the C2. Bezel size around the picture for both series has been narrowed, to 10.2mm on the G and 6mm on the C, for an even more dramatic "all-picture" look. There's also a new carbon-fiber material that contributes to significantly less weight: the G is 20% lighter and the C up to 47% lighter.

Gaming extras: The C1 was my favorite TV for gaming thanks to its best-in-class input features, including VRR and 4K/120Hz capability on every input on the C and G models, and improvements in 2022 are minor. The excellent Game Optimizer mode gains a new "sports" preset to join RPG, FPS and the rest, there's a new dark room mode that reduces brightness and adds blue light reduction to combat eye fatigue and the dashboard shows more information on the pop-up. 

LG says that premium 2022 OLEDs will also get up to 48Gbps bandwidth on their HDMI inputs, up from 40Gbps in 2021 and 2020 models. Since bandwidth is a poor indicator of real-world video quality I don't consider the improvement a big deal. (Here's a good explanation of why.)

User profiles on WebOS smart TV: All 2022 LG TVs with its WebOS smart TV system will allow you to set up user profiles for different family members or others. These include a Kids profile that surfaces kids-friendly content. Google TV and Amazon Fire TV also offer profiles, but this would be a first in a proprietary smart TV system. 

New for 2022, LG's WebOS smart TV system lets you set up profiles for different users.

David Katzmaier/CNET

Far-field mic for voice commands: Previously available on the G and up models, for 2022 LG is migrating its far-field mic -- which allows you to issue voice commands by saying a wake word like "Alexa" or "Hey, Google," rather than having to use the remote -- down to the C2 series and the G2. Like Samsung TVs, LG lets you use Alexa, Google Assistant and its proprietary voice system.

Room to room sharing: This new feature, coming later this year, lets a compatible 2022 LG TV share its screen, including inputs such as a cable box, wirelessly to another compatible 2022 LG TV. LG says it's designed to allow you to take the second TV elsewhere in the home (or outside) where a cable or other wired connection might not be available. The downside is that it requires two 2022 LG TVs because it won't work on earlier models.

"Always ready" screensaver: LG is taking a page from Samsung's TV ambient mode by displaying a clock, weather or art on the screen when the TV is turned "off."

 We look forward to testing LG's new OLED TVs later this spring.

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QD-OLED TV: Samsung, Sony Take on LG With Quantum Dot Special Sauce

QD-OLED TV: Samsung, Sony Take on LG With Quantum Dot Special Sauce

The best TVs you can buy use OLED screens and until now, LG Display has been the sole producer of every OLED television in the world. In 2022 a new kind of OLED TV technology, called QD-OLED, finally goes on sale. The technology debuts in new 55-inch and 65-inch TVs from Samsung and Sony, as well as a new monitor by Alienware. QD-OLED uses quantum dots in combination with organic light-emitting diodes, and it promises even better picture quality than traditional OLED TVs and monitors.

We already reviewed the Alienware monitor and liked it a lot, but we haven't had the chance to see the TVs beyond brief, early demos of prototype products. Samsung's QD-OLED TV, the QS95B, is available now and priced at $2,200 for the 55-inch and $3,000 for the 65-inch model, which is exactly the same as LG's best 2022 OLED TV, the G2 series. Meanwhile Sony is charging more for QD-OLED, $3,000 for the 55-inch and $4,000 for the 65-inch when they go on sale in June.

First things first: We won't know how these QD-OLED TVs really compare against LG OLEDs like the the C2 we recently reviewed, or to other OLED and non-OLED TVs, until we can test them in person. But they sure look promising. 

So what is QD-OLED, and why is it potentially better than traditional OLED and LED LCD? Read on to find out.

Today's TV tech: LCD, OLED and QLED

Right now there are two technologies most TV buyers can actually afford: LCD and OLED. LCD TVs are sometimes called "LED TVs" due to the tiny LEDs they use to create light. The image is created by a liquid crystal layer, just like LCD TVs from 20-plus years ago. Mini-LED TVs operate the same way, just with more LEDs in their backlights, while QLED TVs are basically LED LCD TVs with quantum dots.

The size of the quantum dot determines what color it emits when supplied with energy. Currently that energy is supplied by blue LEDs or blue OLEDs.

Samsung

OLED is a newer technology. Each pixel emits its own light, created by a substance that glows when you give it energy. This substance includes the element carbon, hence the "organic" moniker. Since they're able to turn individual pixels off, to a perfect black, their contrast ratio and overall picture quality are typically better than any LCD.

One of the biggest improvements in LCD TV tech over the last few years is the inclusion of quantum dots. These microscopic spheres glow a specific color when excited by light. In the case of LCD TVs, blue LEDs supply all the blue light plus the energy to get red and green quantum dots to emit red and green light. This is what allows LCD TVs to have such extreme brightness and better color than LCD TVs of old. 

The many layers of LCD (left) compared with the relatively few layers required by QD-Display (right). Among other benefits, even thinner TVs are possible.

Samsung

You can read more about the differences between these technologies in our comparison of LCD and OLED TV display technologies, but the short version is that LCD-based TVs tend to be brighter, while OLED TVs have better overall picture quality. There's also microLED, but microLED TVs are currently wall-size and absurdly expensive. They're not really competition for LCD, OLED or QD-OLED TVs, and likely won't be for the foreseeable future.

The layers required to make an image with different TV technologies. With LCD, the light and the image are created separately. With WOLED (LG's current tech), the "white" layer is actually blue and yellow. Color filters create red and green. 

With Samsung's new QD-OLED, only blue OLED material is used, with red and green created by quantum dots. (Click to enlarge)

Samsung

QD + OLED = 💖?

Combining the efficiency and color potential of quantum dots with the contrast ratio of OLED is basically the holy grail of current image quality. LCDs don't have the pixel-level contrast of OLED. Their backlights, even with mini-LED, are just too coarse. OLED TVs, while bright, don't have the extreme brightness potential of LCD. 

The layers of a QD-OLED display.

Nanosys

QD-OLED potentially solves both these issues and could be greater than the sum of its parts. A blue OLED material creates, as with most LED LCDs, all the blue light. A quantum dot layer uses this blue light to then create green and red light. Quantum dots are nearly 100% efficient, so basically no energy is lost converting these colors. The current version of OLED uses color filters to create red, green and blue, essentially blocking a significant amount of the light potential created by the OLED material, so it's potentially less efficient.

The result could be greater brightness and color than with current versions of OLED, while keeping that technology's superlative contrast ratio.

Samsung

What else we know about QD-OLED TVs right now

Aside from the basic technology above, we know a few details about the actual TVs and monitors hitting the market later this year. 

Samsung: QD-OLED panels are built by Samsung Display, a division of that mega conglomerate that manufactures displays. Samsung Electronics, the division that makes the TVs themselves, officially unveiled its TV in March 2020 after a tease at CES 2020. Called the QS95B series, Samsung touts improved brightness and color as well as the typical features of the company's 2022 TVs, such as revamped processing, HDMI 2.1 inputs, an improved smart TV system and a solar remote. The QS95B series is available for preorder now to ship in April.

Sony: Called the A95K series, it will also come in 55- and 65-inch sizes. Sony claims better color and improved viewing angles for this TV but told CNET's David Katzmaier not to expect a significant improvement in peak brightness with whites. It has 4K resolution, HDMI 2.1 inputs and a bunch of other features, like a built-in camera and remote finder. 

Sony's AK95 series is a QD-OLED TV available for preorder in June in 55- and 65-inch sizes.

Sony

Alienware:The third manufacturer with QD-OLED has a curved 34-inch, 3,440x1,440-pixel monitor, model number AW3423DW. In case you're counting, the smallest OLED TV LG makes is 42 inches. CNET's Lori Grunin reviewed the monitor and lauded its performance for gaming as well as its color accuracy.

The Alienware QD-OLED monitor costs $1,300.

Dell

Read more: Alienware 34-Inch QD-OLED Monitor Review: It Brings the Pretty

What we don't know about QD-OLED

We know the prices of these TVs, so the next biggest unanswered question is how good they will look compared with "vanilla" OLED TVs from LG and Sony. Samsung says that its QD-OLED will be brighter than OLED, with a better contrast than LCD. The latter is easy; all OLEDs have better contrast than all LCDs. How much brighter remains to be seen, literally and figuratively. LG promises its own improvements for 2022 OLEDs and beyond, so it's possible this brightness aspect won't be a huge factor.

Two additional improvements with QD-OLED are possible according to its proponents: off-axis and motion blur. Since QD-OLED lacks color filters, they will potentially look better when seen from the side than OLED, which already looks much better off-axis than LCD. So if you have a really wide sofa, people in the cheap seats won't have a worse picture than those sitting directly in front of the TV. From what Katzmaier saw in his demo of Sony, the off-axis improvement is real but not a huge deal

Motion blur is a bit of a rabbit hole, but due to how the current generation of OLED works, they still have motion blur. Samsung Display claims QD-OLED will have significantly less motion blur than LCD, though the company didn't say if it's better than LG's OLED. An ultrafast response time, plus extra brightness so you can use black frame insertion and still have a bright image, means it should be at least as good as regular OLED. 

A TV demonstrates Samsung's QD Display technology, which combines OLED elements with quantum dots to boost color and other image quality attributes.

Stephen Shankland/CNET

Then there's the question of color volume, which is something you're going to hear more and more about in the coming years. Basically, it's how much color there is in extremely bright parts of the image. One drawback of LG's OLED method is that to get the brightness desired by consumers, it uses an additional subpixel, white, in addition to red, green and blue (see image with LCD, WOLED and QD-OLED above). This technically has the effect of "washing out" extremely bright parts of the image. 

From what we've seen so far, QD-OLED could deliver improved color. The caveat is that we haven't actually had the chance to compare it with shipping products (as opposed to prototypes) using real-world video. With most real-world HDR TV shows and movies there really isn't that much color information in bright parts of the image. That's partly to do with the inability of most displays to do anything with it. But even if Hollywood were to color-grade more shows and movies with more bright-color data, we're still just talking about things like more yellow in the sun, more blue tint to headlights, and so on. It remains to be see how much different QD-OLED will look with those colors.

The future is now(ish)

In the end, how much better QD-OLED is than regular OLED doesn't actually matter. It's already the most important thing it could be: more OLED. Another company making OLED displays is by far the healthiest thing that could happen to the TV industry and for consumers. Pushing picture quality up and prices down has never been a bad thing.

For that matter, as someone who has always hated LCD, I think a future without that tired, Band-Aid-ed TV technology is a welcome one. But that might just be me.

We expect to get our hands on the first generation of QD-OLED displays later this year. Stay tuned.

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He also wrote a bestselling sci-fi novel about city-size submarines, along with a sequel. You can follow his adventures on Instagram and his YouTube channel.

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Facebook's global head of safety hasn't fully read UK's Online Safety Bill

Facebook's global head of safety hasn't fully read UK's Online Safety Bill

Tech executives and lawmakers around the world all seem to agree -- social media regulation is necessary and it is coming. One of the first pieces of legislation to come into play will likely be the UK's Online Safety Bill, the draft text of which is being examined by a parliamentary committee.

That bill will help set the tone for safety regulation around the world, as other countries also seek to ensure citizens are protected from harmful content, and the draft legislation has been available since May. It might be reasonable, then, to assume that key executives from social media companies -- such as Facebook, which has been facing intense criticism about the risks it poses -- would have scrutinized it in detail by now. That's not necessarily the case, apparently.

On Thursday, Parliament's Draft Online Safety Bill committee took evidence from Facebook's head of safety, Antigone Davis. Asked whether she would be the person in charge of submitting company risk assessments to the UK regulator, Davis responded: "I don't know the details of the bill."

Members of Parliament expressed their concern that Davis was attending the session without having read the draft bill she was providing evidence for. "I just have to say I'm deeply, deeply shocked that you aren't on top of the brief about what this bill is all about and what it means not just to us, but to the whole of the world as well," said MP Suzanne Webb.

"I actually am familiar with the bill," responded Davis.

When asked to clarify whether or not she had read the bill, Davis replied: "I'm familiar with parts of the bill," implying that she had not read the bill in full. 

The 145-page Online Safety Bill, previously known as the Online Harms Bill, would place UK media watchdog Ofcom in charge of regulating tech companies in Britain. Ofcom would have the power to fine tech companies £18 million ($25.3 million) or 10% of their annual revenue, whichever is higher, if they fail to remove harmful or illegal content, as well as to block sites and services. Senior managers at tech companies could even face criminal charges if those companies consistently fall short of their obligations.  

Chris Yiu, Facebook's director of public policy for Northern Europe, who was also present at the hearing, said he had read the bill, including the explanatory notes.

Facebook didn't immediately respond to a request for additional comment.

Following years of criticism that it doesn't do enough to protect people's privacy or to eliminate hate speech and misinformation, Facebook has been hit with renewed allegations that it puts profits over user safety. Internal documents leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen led to a flurry of stories in recent weeks from The Wall Street Journal and a consortium of US and international news outlets about the company's policies, practices and decision-making.  

Last week, another Facebook whistleblower, Sophie Zhang, giving evidence to the same parliamentary committee, said she had read the bill in full. 

"It seems like basic politeness to me that if I'm asked to testify regarding an upcoming bill, I should actually read the bill in question," said Zhang on Twitter on Thursday.

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Meta Is Pulling the Plug on Facebook Live Shopping

Meta Is Pulling the Plug on Facebook Live Shopping

After less than two years, Facebook is shuttering its live shopping feature, parent company Meta announced in a blog post Wednesday.

As of Oct. 1, users will no longer be able to host any new or scheduled Facebook Live Shopping events. Facebook Live will continue, the company said, but you won't be able to create product playlists or tag products in your Facebook Live videos.

"As consumers' viewing behaviors are shifting to short-form video, we are shifting our focus to Reels on Facebook and Instagram," the post said, suggesting users try tagging products in Reels on Instagram as a possible substitute.

A makeup tips video on Facebook Live Shopping.

Meta

After some trial runs and beta testing, Facebook made livestream shopping widely available in November 2020. Live Shopping Fridays was added the following May, offering demos, tutorials and other videos from retailers like Abercrombie & Fitch, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and Clinique.

Previously filmed shopping segments can still be preserved, according to Meta, by downloading them onto your profile page or in Creator Studio.

The announcement comes just weeks after TikTok reportedly dropped plans to expand its own live e-commerce initiative, TikTok Shop, to the US and mainland Europe. 

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OnePlus 10 Pro peek reveals lots of Oppo software DNA

OnePlus 10 Pro peek reveals lots of Oppo software DNA

Curious about what it's like to use the OnePlus 10 Pro? So is everyone else outside of China since the phone launched there on Jan. 10 and the company hasn't yet given an international release date. But a new video showing off the flagship phone reveals it's essentially running Oppo software.

YouTuber Marques Brownlee got his hands on a OnePlus 10 Pro model from China and demonstrated that it appears to have entirely replaced all traces of OnePlus' signature OxygenOS Android skin with Oppo's ColorOS.

Read more: The best phones to buy in 2022

This doesn't necessarily mean the version of OnePlus 10 Pro that'll be sold outside China won't have OxygenOS, Brownlee noted. But replacing software entirely is very different than the "fusion" of operating systems that OnePlus CEO Pete Lau described last September that would bring the best of both OxygenOS and ColorOS to the next generation of OnePlus phones.

Fans and media have been in the dark since the phone's launch earlier in January, which only revealed the OnePlus 10 Pro's specs and new design. Per Brownlee's video, the phone's hardware is exactly as advertised: It seems to have the same lenses as the OnePlus 9 Pro in a redesigned camera block housing, though it does have a new 150-degree ultrawide mode within the photo app, among other tweaks. 

In addition, the in-screen fingerprint sensor, which was awkwardly low on the OnePlus 9 Pro, has been moved up on the display to be easier to reach with your thumb. The phone also has a new type of display, an LTPO 2, which has the same 120Hz maximum refresh rate but now goes down to a 1Hz, which is lower than the 9 Pro's minimum 10Hz, meaning lower potential power drain. 

It seems we were right to be excited over the 10 Pro's 5,000mAh battery, the largest yet on a OnePlus flagship phone, as Brownlee found it lasted longer than the brand's older phones. The 80-watt charging is also as speedy as expected, though you'll need to buy a proprietary Oppo wireless charger to reach the phone's 50-watt maximum wireless charging speeds. 

OnePlus veterans may be thrown off by the charger included in the box, which isn't OnePlus' WarpCharge but the SuperVOOC charger block typically packed with Oppo phones. The latter has a USB-A plug instead of the USB-C ports used by most modern chargers, so if you lose the included cable, you may need to unearth older cables long ago consigned to your desk drawer. 

OnePlus didn't respond to a request for comment.

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Acer's TravelMate P6 is a pro rugged laptop that weighs next to nothing

Acer's TravelMate P6 is a pro rugged laptop that weighs next to nothing

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon.

2020 is likely to see more laptops designed to give you the instant-on performance and long battery life you get from your phone. And one of the first is the upcoming Acer TravelMate P6, announced at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. 

Weighing in at only 2.4 pounds (1.1 kg), the slim 14-inch laptop was coengineered with Intel to meet its Project Athena minimum standards. That means it's designed to wake from sleep in less than a second, deliver consistent responsiveness on battery only, give you at least 9 hours of battery life under real-world conditions and 16 or more hours of battery for local video playback. It also promises at least 4 hours of battery time with a 30-minute charge. 

Acer says the P6 can hit up to 23 hours, so squeezing in more than a full day's work seems possible. Also, despite its thin frame and light weight, the laptop is Mil-Spec 810G- and 810F-compliant, allowing it to withstand getting banged around on business trips. It'll be available in multiple configurations starting at $1,150 when it's available in February. 

• Up to a 10th-gen Intel Core i7
• Up to 24GB of memory
• Optional Nvidia GeForce MX250 discrete graphics
• Up to 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD for storage

Acer will also offer the following options to help keep you and your work protected: 

• A power button with a built-in fingerprint reader
• An IR webcam to sign in using facial recognition
• Integrated Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 chip for protection of passwords and encryption keys
• 4G LTE mobile broadband so you can work anywhere with less concern about connecting to random Wi-Fi networks

A physical shutter for the webcam also comes standard. 

Acer TravelMate P2

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Acer also announced the TravelMate P2, which will arrive alongside the P6 in February starting at $700. Available in 14- and 15.6-inch models, the P2 is essentially a slightly heavier and thicker version of the P6 with up to a 12-hour battery life. Many of the configuration options are carried over, though, including the Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU combinations, 4G LTE and Wi-Fi 6 connectivity and a TPM 2.0 module for security. 

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LG's outrageous direct-view LED TV tops out at 325 inches, $1.7 million

LG's outrageous direct-view LED TV tops out at 325 inches, $1.7 million

Pass on that Aston Martin Valhalla. Swipe left on that diamond-encrusted iPhone. Don't bother with that, um, modest two-bedroom tract home that's optimistically within commuting distance of San Francisco. What's really worth your next million dollars? A television.

And not just any television, but a 325-inch, 8K resolution, direct-view LED from LG. It's similar in concept to Samsung's The Wall and Sony's Crystal LED: massive screens comprising millions of LEDs. These kinds of extremely expensive TVs are fundamentally different from standard LED TVs, with (much) larger sizes, potentially better picture quality and eye-watering price tags.

Like standard TVs, LG's DVLED Home Cinema Display is available in different sizes (108 to 325 inches) and resolutions (HD to 8K). Unlike most TVs, however, it's available in different resolutions at the same size. For why that's interesting, and why DVLED is interesting in general beyond its massive size and price, read on.

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Little LEDs = huge TVs

Let's back up for a minute. All modern TVs are, in one way or another, lit by light-emitting diodes. In most cases it's a series of hundreds or thousands of tiny LEDs arrayed on the edges or behind an LCD screen. It's that LCD that actually creates the image, the LEDs just create the light. Color filters, or increasingly frequently, quantum dots, create the specific colors needed for a TV image. OLED TVs are slightly different, with their organic (i.e. they include carbon) LEDs directly visible, and they create color in a different way.

MicroLED, like Samsung's The Wall and Sony's Crystal LED, are a form of direct-view LED TV. You're looking right at the LEDs -- no LCD layer required -- and those LEDs are creating the light, the color and the entire image. This is far more difficult than it sounds because of the sheer number of LEDs involved. 

A standard 4K TV has 8,294,400 pixels (3,840x2,160). They actually need three times that many (24,883,200) because each pixel needs red, green and blue subpixels to create TV colors. Traditional LCD TVs, aka "LED" TVs in marketing-speak, have that many pixels on their liquid crystal layers, but far, far fewer LEDs. Even mini-LED TVs, which have far more LEDs than traditional LCD LED TVs, have thousands, not millions of LEDs. 

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This is because not only are LEDs relatively expensive, but they also require significantly more electricity than any other part of the TV. So 24 million of them would be a significantly greater energy hog than, say, a few hundred. 

Getting LEDs small enough, and efficient enough, has been a goal for all the major TV brands, not to mention dozens of competing smaller companies you've never heard of. Their collective success is why we're already seeing mini-LED TVs, with their impressive brightness and contrast, and wall-size MicroLED TVs. Which brings us to LG's DVLED.

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What is DVLED?

Direct View LED is a refreshingly self-explanatory name. You're directly viewing LEDs. But is it actually MicroLED, like Samsung and Sony's wall-sized TVs? It depends. 

LG told CNET that, "All of the DVLED Extreme Home Cinema displays with the 0.9mm COB LED Package type are using MicroLED."

That number, 0.9mm, refers to pixel pitch. That's the distance from the center of one pixel to the next, which includes the size of the pixel but also the space in between. The smallest pixel pitch in LG's DVLED lineup is 0.9mm, found on a variety of models from 81 up to 325 inches and ranging from 2K to 8K resolution (those are the ones with MicroLED). There are also models with 1.2mm and 1.5mm pixel pitches. The LEDs used in those versions are small, that's for sure, but evidently not small enough to qualify as MicroLED.

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DVLED comes in a variety of screen sizes and resolutions.

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Why these numbers are important is because of a counterintuitive characteristic of all direct-view LED tech: There's a lower limit to sizes of direct view LED displays. There's a limit to how close they can currently get the pixels, and this is true with LG's DVLED, as well as Samsung and Sony's tech. That's the reason these TVs are all wall-size, at least for now.

The smallest LG DVLED Home Cinema Display is 108 inches diagonally. With a 1.2mm pixel pitch, this means HD resolution, or "2K" as LG calls it. Interestingly, LG includes BTU specs, just like heaters and air conditioners. Remember, LEDs create heat as well as light, just in a better ratio than, say, incandescent bulbs. So in this case, they spec the 108-inch at putting out 6,288 BTUs per hour. So yeah, worst case is you can use one as a space heater if you get chilly while sleeping on your piles of money. 

If 4K is more your thing, sizes range from 163 to 393 inches. You can also do dual 2K or dual 4K versions, which have a 32:9 aspect ratio for watching two or more shows side-by-side. I would absolutely use this to watch TV on one side of the screen and play a game on the other.

The 8K version, for a cool $1.7 million, is 325 inches diagonally. It weighs in at exactly one Mazda Miata. It puts out a toasty 56,592 BTUs, which I believe is just slightly less than a Falcon 9 at full throttle. Hope you've got decent HVAC, or at least several athletic serfs with palm fronds.

Look, Timmy, your inheritance!

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And yet...

Joking aside, I'd like to be clear about two things. One, this isn't really a "big TV." I mean, it is, but really it's a projector replacement. It's fairly easy, and inexpensive, to get a 100-plus inch image right now with a projector. What isn't easy, basically impossible, is to get any projector that looks good in a bright room. LG claims most sizes of DVLED put out around 1,200 nits, which is similar to the brightness of a (much smaller) midrange to high-end TV today -- and many times brighter than a typical projector.

OK, yeah, this I'd do.

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Also… this is the future. Not $1.7 million TVs (I hope), but direct view displays. OLED is the start of that, but like MicroLED and DVLED, also on the horizon are direct view quantum dots, QD/OLED hybrids and more. LCDs will disappear eventually, or at least be relegated entirely to the low end of the market. 

Will there be a 65-inch 4K DVLED someday? Maybe, but more likely it will be some variation on the technology that LG was able to achieve because of what they were able to figure out by making DVLED displays today.

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As well as covering TV and other display tech, Geoff does photo tours of cool museums and locations around the world, including nuclear submarines, massive aircraft carriers, medieval castles, airplane graveyards and more. 

You can follow his exploits on Instagram and his travel video series on YouTube. He also wrote a bestselling sci-fi novel about city-size submarines, along with a sequel. 

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