LG’s Wireless 97-Inch OLED TV Is Full of Surprises

I have been overlaying TVs at CES for years, so it takes quite a bit to shock me. I’ve seen some wild screens, ones that roll up, and ones so massive they’re principally video partitions, however these sometimes come after a number of rounds prototypes, which boring the shock. After I walked into LG’s suite at a resort in Las Vegas, nevertheless, the factor I noticed throughout the room got here as a massive shock.

And I do imply massive. It is a 97-inch OLED TV, and it stays the largest OLED TV on the earth. And since OLED gives the perfect image high quality out there, it is rattling spectacular in particular person at that dimension. However that wasn’t the shock — LG launched it final 12 months. To me, the jaw-dropper got here when LG’s rep instructed me the gorgeous, large 4K picture was being beamed to the TV with none wires. 

Wi-fi TV is actual, and it is coming this 12 months.

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Throughout the room from the TV sat the wi-fi transmitter field. On the again of the field had been normal HDMI plugs and a handful of different connections, and one HDMI cable ran to a Blu-ray participant. The picture on the display screen was from a Blu-ray disc, despatched wirelessly — and flawlessly, to my eye — from the field to the TV. The highest of the field might be rotated to goal an inside antenna on the tv.

The TV itself did not have any video inputs in any respect, simply clean metallic the place TV inputs often reside round again. The concept is to cut back wiring, that age-old bugaboo of good TV installations. You, one that can afford a 97-inch OLED TV, stash your AV gear inside a cupboard out of sight, together with the transmitter field into which all the things plugs. That leaves solely the facility twine to the TV, a wire LG artfully hid inside one of many stand legs.

Certain, any variety of TV stands also can maintain your gear. However wi-fi connectivity permits the TV to face alone, which appears to be like spectacular on one among LG’s easel-like stands (pictured above) and it could enormously simplify a wall-mount set up. 

LG says the field might be situated as much as 30 ft from the TV. I requested whether or not the wi-fi connection was a possible hazard, particularly in the event you’re sitting between the field and the TV, and firm representatives instructed me it wasn’t as a result of it makes use of comparable know-how to straightforward Wi-Fi routers. In addition they stated it would not be affected by different Wi-Fi site visitors. The sign can deal with as much as 4K, 120Hz decision, which is just about the utmost for at this time’s video games. It is also the best decision and body price most TVs, together with LG’s regular 4K OLED fashions, can settle for.

The field has three HDMI inputs, shocking since most high-end TVs have 4, however that is not a deal-breaker in my e book. The remainder of the ports are typical for a TV: antenna, two USB, Ethernet and optical digital out, in addition to a serial port for house automation management.

Wi-fi TVs have been offered up to now, and wi-fi tech has appeared in projectors too. You may as well purchase wi-fi HDMI extender kits for $100 or much less, however they typically cannot deal with such excessive bandwidth. That is the primary time in years I’ve seen it constructed right into a TV. An organization referred to as Displace TV additionally confirmed a wi-fi OLED mannequin at CES, but it surely’s a 55-inch, battery-powered display screen that is designed for portability.

Along with the 97-inch dimension LG will launch its wi-fi OLED, dubbed the M3 collection, in 83- and 77-inch sizes. LG says it is coming someday in 2023 with pricing, like the remainder of LG’s 2023 TVs, nonetheless to be decided. For reference, LG expenses $25,000 for its normal, wired 97-inch OLED TV and $2,900 for a 77-inch one, so no matter dimension, the M3 will not be low-cost.

Apart from the M3 LG additionally launched three different collection of wired OLED TVs at CES 2023.

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