{"id":13761,"date":"2022-09-02T14:53:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/02\/hang-on-is-lg-secretly-bringing-back-curved-tvs\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:53:36","slug":"hang-on-is-lg-secretly-bringing-back-curved-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/02\/hang-on-is-lg-secretly-bringing-back-curved-tvs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang on, is LG secretly bringing back curved TVs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/1\/23333515\/lg-oled-flex-transforming-tv-curved-flat-hands-on<\/a>
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Outside of 3D, curved TVs are probably one of the industry\u2019s most ill-advised gimmicks. Unless you sat at a very specific point in front of them, they resulted in a warped image, harsh reflections, and a generally unpleasant viewing experience, for close to no benefit. Seriously, they were terrible<\/a>. It felt like curved TVs happened because companies could<\/em> make them, rather than because they should.<\/em><\/p>\n

It took me a little while to realize it, but LG\u2019s new 42-inch OLED Flex<\/a>, which it\u2019s announced this week at IFA and hopes to bring to market this fall, effectively marks the return of curved TVs. It may have a monitor-style stand featuring some gamer-styled RGB lighting, and LG may have confused things slightly by placing the OLED Flex on top of a desk like a monitor in its demo area. But make no mistake, this is a TV-ass TV. It\u2019s got four HDMI 2.1 inputs, runs WebOS, and has a built-in TV tuner. It\u2019s a TV.<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s a TV with a pretty interesting trick \u2014 it transforms. At the press of a button a series of motors inside the device begin to whir, turning it from a traditional flat TV into a curved TV. (You can also control the bending process with the navigation button on the underside of the display.) Or a curved TV that looks a lot like a curved monitor, at any rate. That\u2019s how it\u2019s able to avoid the curved TV curse; it\u2019s not always curved. It\u2019s an interesting approach that means you shouldn\u2019t have to deal with the problems the curve creates when you\u2019re not going to experience its benefits.<\/p>\n

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From the back, the TV looks a lot like a gaming monitor.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

To show off exactly when you might want a curved TV, LG had the racing game Forza Horizon 5<\/em> hooked up to the display, and was encouraging people to sit around three-to-four feet away from it to get the most out of the vision-enveloping benefits of a curved screen. At its maximum, the screen can bend to an impressively curved 900R, but it can be adjusted on a percentage slider in 5 percent increments, for a total of 20 different curvatures. It was hard to tell amidst the noise of the IFA show floor, but the whirring sound was definitely noticeable, and it goes without saying you probably wouldn\u2019t want to hear it mid-game.<\/p>\n

Outside of its curving mechanism and chunky stand, the LG OLED Flex is effectively the same as LG\u2019s existing 42-inch C2 TV. It\u2019s got the same LG Display OLED Evo panel, and supports both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos (it can create a virtualized 7.1.2 surround sound). It has a 4K resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio, and a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz. Obviously that means in practice it looks every bit as good as LG\u2019s popular OLED range.<\/p>\n

The LG OLED Flex is unlikely to be cheap. Spokespeople for LG were unwilling to confirm how much the TV will cost when it goes on sale later this year, but given this thing basically contains a whole $1,399 LG C2, plus a series of no doubt very complex mechanisms to make the automatic bending process work, I\u2019m guessing we\u2019re looking at a device costing at least $2,000. Is it worth it for a 42-inch display?<\/p>\n

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When flat, it\u2019s almost indistinguishable from a 42-inch LG C2.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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The TV at its maximum curve.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

One argument could be that the OLED Flex is effectively two products in one. It\u2019s one part traditional flat OLED TV, and one part curved gaming monitor. But I\u2019m less sure about how a hybrid screen like this would fit into most people\u2019s homes. Is LG expecting customers to have it set up like a curved monitor on their desk, ready to be turned into a TV for watching films? Or is the plan to have it set up like a regular TV on a cabinet, but with the option of pulling your chair right up close and putting it into curved mode for some immersive gaming action? I\u2019m not entirely sure. <\/p>\n

Between this and Corsair\u2019s own take on the bendable form-factor<\/a> \u2014 which still has an LG Display OLED panel but a wider 21:9 aspect ratio and a transforming process that asks you to bend it by hand \u2014 it feels like we\u2019re entering a new era of curved displays. Curved TVs never really worked out, but curved monitors have proven pretty popular in the years since. LG\u2019s OLED Flex appears to be trying to bridge that gap. <\/p>\n

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