LG 15-inch OLED TV on sale in December

We knew that LG's 15-inch OLED TV was entering into production this summer, now we've got a ship date: December. This according to an interview with Won Kim, LG's VP of OLED sales and marketing. While 15-inches is small, it easily trumps the world's first production OLED TV, Sony's $2,500 11-inch XEL-1, and is a reasonable size for the bedroom (if you must) or kitchen counter. No word on specs but we expect the production set to offer the same million:1 contrast, 1,366 x 768 pixel resolution, and 30,000-hour shelf life as the prototype unveiled in January. The TV will launch first in Korea for an undisclosed price that is bound to be punishingly expensive.

[bradfordcolas @ Jun 17th 2009 6:11AM]

must....be.....bigger.........

[DR House @ Jun 17th 2009 6:24AM]

You like big sizes don't you :o

[Isandunk @ Jun 17th 2009 6:37AM]

No amount of steroids is going to help you there, cupcake.

[Mehdi Cheddadi @ Jun 17th 2009 12:37PM]

No, I think this is the perfect size for a LAPTOP. why didn't they do LAPTOP screens instead boggles the mind. who has 15inch TVs in their house anymore?

[Hafkie @ Jun 17th 2009 2:22PM]

15 inch TV's are great for places like the kitchen/dining room, which is good for the morning. (You could eat your breakfast and watch the morning news, for example.)

Also, kids bedrooms. You wouldn't spend this money on a kid's bedroom TV, though.

[Ian @ Jun 17th 2009 5:54PM]

15" is uselessly small, even for a kitchen. Not everyone has a dining table that's directly beside a TV. I think 24" LCDs would make a good size, and 20" is acceptable as a TV. Then again, why would I spend that much money on such a display?



@Mehdi Chiddadi: In a laptop today? How much do you think such a laptop would cost?

[soren121 @ Jun 18th 2009 1:55PM]

I recently bought a 15-inch 720p HDTV for my bedroom. Perfect size and price for my nightstand (my nightstand is about 1.5x2ft.) People still do have uses for smaller TVs. 11-inch, not so much.

[adrian @ Jun 17th 2009 6:31AM]

That is one sexy television!

[superhobo @ Jun 17th 2009 6:29AM]

30,000 hours is not so bad. That way you can still be using it when cheaper better models come out and your wallet cries looking at them.

[xcrunk @ Jun 17th 2009 6:30AM]

Who needs a 50" Panasonic G10 plasma when you can get an overpriced 15" OLED?

Small high tech 720P TV's FTW!!

[Shinigami @ Jun 17th 2009 9:57AM]

Bah! We don't want plasma! Even 50 inches! We want OLED!

Doesn't mean we'll buy overpriced super-small ones though. Just wait till you have grandkids (if you don't have any kids right now) and OLED TVs will be cheap and in all sizes and variations.

[GeekGirl @ Jun 17th 2009 6:31AM]

Bigger is always better.........

[Timmy @ Jun 17th 2009 9:13AM]

Looks like your Mac is out of date.

[mirakutea @ Jun 17th 2009 6:35AM]

Good news, I haven't researched.. are there/will there be laptops with OLED screens like this?

[UberAdept @ Jun 17th 2009 7:01AM]

...Yes we can....
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/samsungs-12-1-inch-oled-laptop-makes-us-swoon/

Is 768 Vertical resoultion enough for 15" screen though?

...Carrier exclusivity annoys me...

[mirakutea @ Jun 17th 2009 7:05AM]

there are a few 15-17" laptops with 16:9, 1366x768.. so yes.

[joshua @ Jun 17th 2009 6:40AM]

Not enough P's. Need at least 1080 P's

[Shinigami @ Jun 17th 2009 9:58AM]

i's won't do the trick?

[mirakutea @ Jun 17th 2009 7:06AM]

The 768 is actually horizontal.

[bigcow05 @ Jun 17th 2009 7:23AM]

Do all OLEDs have viewing angles this awesome?

[jon @ Jun 17th 2009 7:40AM]

OLED, Plasma. Yes, the better tv technologies have good viewing angles.

[Mizzike @ Jun 17th 2009 7:33AM]

summer... december.... summer... december.

For some logical reason i cant establish a link... anyone help me out?

[Daza @ Jun 17th 2009 10:19AM]

Let me read the article for you and translate to Engadget: Simple Edition -

"We knew that LG's 15-inch OLED TV was entering into production this summer, now we've got a ship date: December."

The above sentence implies (another word for suggests) that the TV went into production (they began to make it) in summer and now it's ready for shipment (selling) in December.

Alternatively, several countries in the world have their summer in December.

[jK @ Jun 17th 2009 8:20AM]

Production... Ship Date... Kinda like.... Conception... Delivery Date...

They cannot really be at the same time!

[Jamie @ Jun 17th 2009 9:10AM]

Oh boy. If an 11 inch OLED TV costs $2,500, I can only imagine what a 15 inch would cost!

[Sisyphus @ Jun 17th 2009 10:15AM]

$3,400.

[crawdad689 @ Jun 17th 2009 9:31AM]

So how long until we can get OLED screens in a sub-$2k Macbook Pro?

Are we talkin' like 1 year, or like 10 years?

[dagamer43 @ Jun 17th 2009 9:51AM]

5 years until they become standard. For the most part right now, there's only one major device that will be using OLED, and that's the Zune HD. A couple of Samsung phones are available but I doubt they'll be produced in the same quantity as the Zune HD.

[Ian @ Jun 17th 2009 5:56PM]

There have been others, you know.

[AndrewNoNumbers @ Jun 17th 2009 9:39AM]

I was just going to say something about the size until I realized Sony's was even smaller.

[tasteslikechicken @ Jun 17th 2009 10:09AM]

OK, these OLEDs are really expensive right now. Just remember, in 1997, Fujitsu was selling the first big screen (42") Plasma TV, for an eye popping price tag of $15,000! Since then things have changed in price a little, what was 15,000 is now available at Costco for 800 bucks. We can probably expect OLEDs and e-ink to become cheap and widely available in the next 5 years as the initial cost of development is paid off and the per unit licensing costs drop to near zero.

[arsix @ Jun 17th 2009 10:44AM]

15" inches.

honest.

[Ryan Salomon @ Jun 17th 2009 11:07AM]

There are other devices out now that are using full-color OLED screens, the big ones being the Cowon S9 PMP and the Samsung OmniaHD phone (not to mention the plethora of other phones Sammy is releasing with the screens, though I noticed not all of them are full 16.7M color... the Jet is though)...

I just don't understand why, at those sizes, they're bothering with TVs at all and don't just put them in laptops. Even if they bump the price insanely, I bet more ppl would pay for a premium laptop (they already do) than premium small tv.

[miko34 @ Jun 17th 2009 1:16PM]

LG sux

they don't test their products fully before releasing them or do updates when they're out in the wild.

[3rdsun @ Jun 17th 2009 7:10PM]

Kim Jong Il will be the first to get one of these