CES 2017

I'm mostly following CES 2017 for the OLED TV news...seems LG's (the leader in OLED, I think all other brands have to use LG panels) new flagship is their wallpaper model (e.g. oled77w7p) which comes in 65 & 77" modes.  It is literally like a wallpaper as it is so thin and separate from the base which holds speakers and I presume CPU/etc.  I haven't had much chance to review it but I'd be interested on how the connections work, this type of systems calls out for wireless connections (though they are prob not ready for prime time).

Here's a great link to keep up with it via VERGE, they continuosly add links as news becomes available
"http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/5/14179174/ces-2017-tv-news-samsung-lg-sony-4k-hd-curved"

OLED is slowly becoming more reasonably priced so maybe by the end of the year I could replace my upstairs 2006 Sony XBR2 with a 55" LG (ideally a slightly curved panel -- I know purists hate them)...will keep an eye out fer sure!

Samsung once dipped into the OLED space by creating their own Panel factory, think they quickly realized how expensive and difficult it is to make even just good quality (say B+ or A-) OLED panels and they gave up quickly, letting LG be the sole/brave creators of LG panels.  I really applaud LG for sticking to it, they had lots of uniformity issues in the first few years but they've mostly ironed out those kinks.  Samsung (not a huge fan) are now being very sneaky, they are trying to lure customers to the next generation of TV...called QLED (Quantum Dots) but of course those are even harder to manufacture than OLED so it's not a true QLED (which is supposed to be a superior to OLED, EMISSIVE display!) but in fact some tweaks on the liquid crystals in the old school LCD display!!!  So Caveat Emptor!

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