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Flexible LG and Samsung TVs

09.01.2014

The TV prototypes presented by Samsung and LG are capable of bending at the user's command, turning from flat to concave and vice versa. LG plans to start selling such a device in late 2014 or early next year.

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics at CES in Las Vegas presented prototype TVs with a screen whose curvature can be changed with a remote control.

LG said it had been developing the prototype for over a year, spending "tens of thousands of hours" testing to make sure the device was reliable and durable.

Samsung's prototype TV features an LED-backlit LCD panel, while LG's design is based on Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technology. As a consequence, the design of the devices and the mechanism for changing the curvature are different.

Samsung TV screen diagonal is 85 inches, LG - 77 inches. Both have Ultra HD resolution.

Using the button on the remote control, the user is invited to change the degree of screen curvature - to turn a flat screen into a concave one and back to its original flat state.

Samsung did not say if they plan to release the presented TV to the market and when. LG, in turn, said that in the US a TV with a variable degree of curvature of the screen will be available for sale in late 2014 or early 2015.

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