Samsung To Unveil 7mm thin TV at CES 2009
We’ve had gold ones and big ones. Now Samsung Electronics plan to introduce an Ultra thin one.
What are we talking about? A New flat-panel TV that’s as thin as just 6.5-millimeters and is due to be released at this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
The TV set, few details of which were immediately available, is between 6.5mm and 7mm across its width and has an LED (light emitting diode) backlight.
The Samsung TV stands at present to be the thinnest LCD TV yet demonstrated.
Until now that record was held by Europe’s Philips, which unveiled an 8mm prototype LCD television at the IFA electronics show in Berlin last year.
At the same event Sony took the wraps off a 9.9mm set that has already gone on sale and is the thinnest LCD TV available in retail stores.
Even thinner TVs based on a newer screen technology called OLED (organic light emitting diode) are also expected to be on show at CES.
Sony used last year’s CES to launch the first commercial OLED TV into the U.S. market and no manufacturer has yet to follow-up the 11-inch XEL-1 with a competitor.
With Sony and Samsung both busy developing OLED TVs and other companies on their research heels the show may see even thinner TVs.
Good one, do you know how/where to get one? Would be great to have one.thanks
On the basis that it’s just been unveiled I reckon it may be a few months yet before these are made available to the general public mate.