The latest prototype of the LG Display is a flexible 48-inch OLED panel that can be folded for games or flattened for watching TV. The company has exhibited similar flexible TV prototypes before, such as when it demonstrated a 65-inch TV intended for use on airplanes that could bend over for passengers to watch movies. This model, which is being shown at this year’s virtual CES, features LG Display’s Cinematic Sound OLED (CSO) technology, which vibrates the screen to produce audio.
The 48-inch TV can offer the immersive benefits of a curved screen during games, without forcing you to live with the many disadvantages of a curved screen when you just want to watch TV. You can quickly see the panel in action at the 19 second mark in the LG Display video below.
In terms of specifications, the LG Display is emphasizing the play capabilities of its prototype, which can bend up to a radius of up to 1,000 mm. It has a high refresh rate of 120 Hz, a variable refresh rate range from 40 Hz to 120 Hz and a response time of 0.1 milliseconds. It is also able to vibrate your screen to produce sound – a technique that LG Display has already displayed on its flat panels – although we imagine that most players would probably prefer to use separate headphones or speakers.
This new prototype is LG Display’s latest experience with flexible OLEDs, which previously included a roll-up TV that accumulates in a compact box when not in use.
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LG Display is also displaying a variety of use cases for its transparent OLED displays at this year’s CES virtual fair. This includes a “smart bed” with a transparent OLED TV that comes out of its frame, a transparent restaurant screen that allows customers to see chefs working behind it, and train car windows that can also display customer information. On the consumer side, LG has also launched a range of TVs with Mini LED screen technology.