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.

[DarthCardo Posted Jun 17th 2009 12:57PM]

you gotta be kidding...

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 17th 2009 10:15AM]

no 11in or 15 in tv should cost 2500 bucks I dont care what kind of new technology it is...
not worth it to me....300-500 bucks should have been the asking price but 2500 you can kick rocks on that one.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 18th 2009 2:57AM]

"kick rocks"!? that's somethin we say up here in detroit!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 18th 2009 8:26AM]

naw corey I'm from bedstuy we say that up here too..lol

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 17th 2009 11:59AM]

I can not wait until Dec 09, to get one of this unit. http://www,nuteav.com

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 17th 2009 10:44AM]

Gotta agree with dpacino's comment. What is the value proposition for the stellar price-tag? I know you have a bigger TV, with higher resolution, but I paid a lot of money for OLED? This is a solution without a problem. A product that is not commercially viable.

[kj4gr Posted Jun 17th 2009 2:30PM]

This is a perfect TV to put in the crapper right above my gold toilet paper holder.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 17th 2009 10:34PM]

toooooooo much i'll stick to my LCD for now

[DrXym Posted Jun 18th 2009 3:17AM]

OLED is where plasma was 10 years ago. Let some other sucker fork out 10x as much for the privilege of a TV moderately thinner than an LED LCD. In 3 or 4 years these things will probably drop to affordable levels and reliability will be better too.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2009 1:04AM]

Products for Korea often don't make it outside that country. Japan after that, then the rest of the world? I'll believe global rollout when I can drive down the street and check one out. 15" is too small for anything but a laptop. Even the 30" would only satisfy me as a computer monitor if they got the vertical resolution ≥1200dpi.

I want to hold off on the last Pioneer plasmas but this tech won't be ready for 2-3 years from now.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2009 3:07PM]

Sign me up for one.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 10th 2009 4:13PM]

That thing is thin!