We started off on the LG booth looking at the company’s LED technology which was being shown with a 1.5mm pitch. The technology is also available at 1mm and 2mm and the company told us that it is making some of its own controllers for the displays and LG believes that it was a bit ‘on the back foot’ in the past on LED, but is now getting onto the front foot and being more proactive. Staff told us that LG is making a big investment in LED technology and manufacture.
We reported on the LG film LED technology from ISE and from Passenger Terminal Expo and the technology will be in the US ‘in the second half of the year’, but we couldn’t get a more precise date.
The next product we were shown was the 65″ ‘In Glass’ OLED panel with UltraHD resolution and suitable for commercial use. The firm also showed how the very slim OLEDs could be overlapped for video wall applications, again a topic we have already reported. The transparent OLED that has been shown since ISE was on display, but there was no news of commercialisation.
A product that is being commercialised in the US is the 55″ open frame OLED which has been made slimmer and more bendable. There was a big curved demonstration video wall using the units.
The 55SVH7E is a new 55″ video wall IPS FullHD LCD panel that has 0.6mm bezel all around video wall panel that has 700 cd/m2 of output capability and includes the latest WebOS 3.0 and will ship ‘in the second half’. When pressed, staff told us it is likely to be ‘in the fall’.
Next we looked at the latest hotel TVs and the company is still highlighting the 65″ 65EV960H OLED TV that it announced at Infocomm last year.
There was an area devoted to interactive displays which use infrared, PCap and, at 86″, the FlatFrog InGlass technology. The company has been working to ensure that they integrate with a wide range of communication suppliers including Cisco and Crestron, among others.
LG had a big area devoted to the developments that LG has in the thin client area and it has new systems that support both Citrix and VMWare protocols (although not the most recent Blast protocol that VMWare has been developing and which the company claims can get a 4x to 6x improvement when connecting over high latency networks). New in the US was the LG Gram notebook form factor thin client which we reported on at ISE and from ECR. (LG Intensifies Medical Push). The US also showed the 24CK550W that was launched in Europe at ISE.
LG Emphasised its thin client systems including this one, based on the LG Gram. Image:Meko
