LG is going several steps further by making the TV go away completely whenever you’re not watching. It drops slowly and very steadily into the base and, with the push of a button, will rise back up in 10 seconds or so. It all happens rather quietly, too. You can’t see the actual “roll” when the TV is closed in, sadly; a transparent base would’ve been great for us nerds to see what’s happening inside the base as the TV comes in or unfurls, but the white is certainly a little more stylish. Functionally, LG tells me it hasn’t made many changes to the way the LG Display prototype worked aside from enhancing the base. I didn’t get to ask about durability testing — how many times the OLED TV R has been tested to go up and down, for example — but that’s something I’m hoping to get an answer to.
We don’t really talk about TVs all that much on OSNews – it’s generally a boring industry – but this rollable display technology is just plain cool.
Although amazing, these arnt really for the likes of me and you. Move for shop windows and expo displays which are easier to transport. In a normal living room, the tv is accepted as a fixed device, and im not sure many will be willing to pay the premium to put it away..
What does interest me though is WebOS, still going strong on these. Maybe one day they will bring it back to phones where it belongs 😉
This thing looks to fragile to transport on expo’s. From all the marketing material it also looks to be aimed as a static device inside a (very luxury) house. I think it is purely for the “1%” that can spend 10K++ for this useless feature. And I call it useless because you cannot occupy that space with anything else because that would probably break either the tv or that other thing occupying that space
I did like the idea of partially extending it to work as a giant photo-frame or notification area, but it feels so limited now that “only open it to show 21:9 without borders” became unavailable.
Great product demo, barely useful in real life and of course completely unaffordable
I see one fantastic purpose for this; VR. So many poor TVs have been sacrificed for the greater VR good.
Imagine starting up the system, starting up your VR game,t hen telling the TV to roll safely away so you don’t punch it while playing Gorn.
Disagree, I think it would be very useful. I hate, hate, hate life now where every large gathering room has a prominent screen. I’d like to sit around and talk with people without their being a giant screen looming over us, beckoning people to pay attention to it. Removing the screen is a great way to clean up the aesthetics of the room. It doesn’t matter much if nothing is there to replace it. Some way of hiding it from view and signifying that this is not the most important things in our lives would be appreciated.
Would I pay 10 K for it, no I would not for my own usage. Would I pay $200-300 more for the feature, yes.
Rollable (even manually, normally left in their destination room in unrolled state) TVs might still be attractive to consumers (or at least consumer shops) because for them they will also be easier/cheaper to store/transport; wallpapers are also stored and transported rolled up. This will become more important the bigger TV screens become (they are already hard to transport in many passenger cars)
OT: The new site looks nice but the comments feature seems a lot less prominent than the old site.
I bet less people are drawn to the comments now. Perhaps it needs more color contrast? Or place it at the bottom of the news article instead of the top?
The main thing I’ve noticed is there’s no more reader moderation. It was the main thing I complained about before, but to make more flexible, not to remove it entirely.
They mentioned that comment moderation is coming, but because of the breach they were somewhat limited in the amount of time to get the new site up and running, so they couldn’t roll it out immediately
Ah, thanks. I must have missed that. I can wait.
10 seconds is too slow, but this is the first version so I’m sure it will get faster.
At work we have projector screens that slowly go up and down. They tend to break easily.