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LG's 15-inch OLED HDTV finally coming to the U.S. by summer

By | February 15, 2010, 1:45pm PST

OLED lovers, get ready to open your wallets. The long-awaited 15-inch OLED HDTV from LG, the EL9500, has had its arrival date to reach these shores confirmed as the middle of this year. It’s been available in LG’s native South Korea since late last year, but according to LG staff at the ISE-2010 conference, it’s slated to be available here within a matter of months.

While 15 inches is probably the size of the last CRT monitor for your Windows 95 desktop, it’s a jump from the 11-inch Sony XEL-1 that’s been available for a couple of years. It’s now big enough to display 720p HD, and with Sony not planning to release any new OLED sets in 2010, this is as good as it gets for now. As you may know already, the XEL-1 went on sale for $2,500, so you can expect similar pricing for the EL9500 if you’re deep pocketed enough to consider buying it.

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Sean Portnoy is a freelance technology journalist.

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LG has a long way to go!
asderil 21st Jan 2011
It's exciting that LG is going to take a stab at oled tv . What I have trouble with is that they're bringing another toy to market instead of an actual TV. If manufacturers cant get a 40" display in the stores, they haven't got a viable technology.
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For some reason, it reminds me of an iPhone application I saw once:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich

"The application is described as "a work of art with no hidden function at all", with its only purpose being to show other people that they were able to afford it, making it a Veblen good."
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It's OLED HDTV. But yeah.
Robert Carnegie 2009 16th Feb 2010
For the money, it had better work very well. No one's going to go, "Come see my 15 inch flat TV!" No one will say, "Wow, it's OLED!" I don't recall where it stands on saving electricity but even that isn't worth the price unless it's also a home heat exchanger and air conditioner, which I assume it isn't... So it had better be a very good TV.
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LG has a long way to go!
asderil 21st Jan 2011
It's exciting that LG is going to take a stab at oled tv . What I have trouble with is that they're bringing another toy to market instead of an actual TV. If manufacturers cant get a 40" display in the stores, they haven't got a viable technology.

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