LG Display is going full steam ahead to convey flexile screens nigher to reality . The cogent evidence of concept , showcased at this year ’s Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) in Las Vegas , had its first hand - on followup by theBBC .
The screen has a 18 - in display and a firmness of 1,200 by 810 pixels , making it full HD , but the most authoritative characteristic is the fact that it can be hustle up into a 3 - centimeter ( 1.2 - inch)radius cylinderwithout breaking the screen .
This amazing feature is possible thanks to the use ofOLEDtechnology , which stands for constitutive light - emit crystal rectifier . While LED in an LED TV illuminate the LCD display , OLEDs are ego - crystalise so they do n’t need a rigid back panel to bring home the bacon lighter .
Many think that OLEDs be the future of screens . Not needing a backlight , OLED screens can be significantly thinner than normal displays , and this quality nominate OLEDs a worthy technology not only for boob tube screens but for roving phones , lozenge and wearable engineering .
bring forth these displays is still considerably more expensive than other filmdom , due to a relatively low-down takings of operable displays . LG Display claims that80 percentof the produced OLED blind is functional , which is importantly miserable than LED displays . A higher permissive waste think a high costs for the consumer , and it ’s not surprising that OLED TVs are importantly more expensive .
The technology is not new ; LG has been work on it for several long time now , and the rollable covert was announcedlast year . But this CES will be the first metre the screen has been shown to the world .
While the OLED technology allows pliable concealment , they can not be folded , so we are not yet at a futuristic video newspaper . And this is not the only limitation of the prototype . The screen can only be tramp up in one counsel , which might not be a striking flaw but it does reduce the versatility of the display .
Another job is that the pel in the CRT screen are well damage , becoming dead pixels . “ There were several dead pixels on the screen and , after I played around with it a bit more , several more emerged , ” Dave Lee reported for theBBC .
There is no meter reading when or if the engineering will be commercially useable . A new 55 - in prototype is being developed and it will reach a 4 K resoluteness . " The larger prototype is await in the close futurity . But as for a commercial production , we ’re still planning the timing , " said KJ Kim , LG Display ’s vice chair of its selling division , to the BBC .
