Technology and Gadgets
A blog looking at the world of technology and gadgets, including the latest computer hardware and smartphones
- Font size: Larger Smaller
- Hits: 993
- Subscribe to this entry
At last year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, LG showcased its first large screen OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) TV. It was so widely acclaimed that the 55” TV won the best TV prize 2012 at the show.
Today, LG have officially launched the TV, but with a hefty price tag. If you want to snap up one, it’s going to set you back around £6,300 (or $10,300USD). The TV is a mere 4mm thick, and weighs around 7.5 Kilos.
The cost of manufacturing OLED screens is expected to become cheaper, and more affordable OLED TV’s are expected to hit the market in 2015/2016.
Whilst both Samsung and LG announced 55” versions of OLED TV’s, LG has managed to be the first to officially launch the product. This, in turn, has helped push LG’s shares up by 5.4% today.
OLED screens are likely to be the replacement for the more common LCD screens as they are not only more cost effective to run, but better lend themselves to the bigger screen sizes, as well as offering better quality displays. Additionally, OLED screens can also be made thinner and lighter than their LCD counterparts.
OLED technology however is not new. If you have a Samsung phone, or a PlayStation Vita console, you already own an OLED screen. OLED screens are more expensive to produce in larger formats, hence the reason why it’s taken a little longer to get them to the price point, albeit still expensive, to be produced for the larger screen formats.
A new technology for larger screen sizes called “4K” is also beginning to attract attention in the TV arena. 4K, also known as “Ultra-HD” gives a resolution four times higher than current HD. In layman’s terms, this means 4K offers resolutions of 2840 x 2160 (8.3 mega-pixels) as opposed to HD which has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 (approx. 2.1 mega-pixels). OLED displays will be best suited for these higher resolutions as screens for 4K will typically be 110” or higher. However, until the cost OLED displays reduce significantly, 4K displays in OLED are unlikely to become mainstream in the home until at least 2017 or later. A number of 4K TV’s are expected to be shown at this year’s CES show.
I’ve recently purchased a new Samsung Galaxy S4. One of the things I wanted to do was to use Kies and Kies Air. I couldn’t get it to work, and eventually read that you need a wireless card in your
For years now, I have been a SimCity fan. I have spent many an hour building cities and toying with the mechanics of them. So you can image my joy when a friend said “hey, they are releasing a new
One of the most appealing aspects of Blackberry (formerly RIM) phones has always been its messaging interface, Blackberry Messenger, or BBM for short. It’s still the number one draw for many people, especially the younger generation, when it comes
As the “Cloud” begins to mature, more and more of us are turning to applications that claim to save our most important notes and data in it so that we can access them anytime, anywhere, on any device. Examples
Well, I'm approaching the end of my first week of not smoking. Days 5 and 6 seem to have been a bit easier than I was expecting, especially as day 5 was me being on my own. Thankfully I managed
Apple are getting some serious flack over their map software in the new iOS6 operating system. And, it has to be said, not without due cause. I don’t own an iPhone or iPad which can upgrade to the latest iOS,
For anyone of a certain age (specifically 40+), you’ll remember the vinyl record and the compact cassette. We never thought they would ever be replaced. Then the Compact Disc came on the scene, and heralded the demise of these two
I've just watched Russell Howard's good news on BBC Three. He does a feature called "It's Not All Gloom and Doom". This story really touched me about Rachel Beckwith.I won't go into details here, but ask you to watch this
