LG announces a 325 “8K TV, costs 1.7 million dollars and weighs almost a ton

LG announced its new line of Direct View LED (DVLED) televisions aimed at creating a home theater, with models ranging from The 108 ″ with 2K resolution up to a huge 325 ″ 8K panel that costs US $ 1.7 million and weighs 907 kg.

These massive televisions are larger in size than the wall of the home of most of us, and were originally sold exclusively to certain VIP buyers, although now LG will begin selling them to the general public. Obviously, as long as you have a lot of money and a lot of space at home to install it.

These televisions do not use the same technology as most TVs. Generally, an LCD panel is used that creates the image and requires illumination to be seen correctly. LEDs are used to illuminate the image which are located on the side of the screen or behind the LCD panel, although their only function is the back lighting of the LCD panel. There are also OLED panels where the image is produced directly by the LED and with this better results are achieved, although there are certain limitations for this technology.

MicroLED displays, like those used in Samsung’s The Wall and Sony’s Crystal LED lines, are similar to LG’s DVLEDs. In the MicroLED panels we see the LED directly, and these generate the light, the color and the image.

The problem with this technology is space. A TV with 4K resolution (3840 × 2160) requires 8,294,400 pixels, and since each pixel is made up of 3 colors, a total of 24,883,200 LEDs are required to generate the image. This requires a large amount of space to place so many LEDs, which is why these televisions have such large sizes, starting at 108 ″ for a television with 2K resolution, when a cell phone can achieve that resolution with an OLED panel.

In addition to the space, there is a great energy consumption by having so many different LEDs on. Obviously each LED has a very low consumption, but having almost 25 million LEDs, the sum of all ends up generating a large consumption and therefore also a high generation of heat, so they require good heat dissipation to avoid failures. .

To solve the temperature problem, these LG screens use a much larger pixel size than those used in MicroLED technologies, and that is why LG calls it DVLED. The distance between pixels starts at 0.9mm, and in some models it goes up to 1.5mm, so the pixels are quite far apart, and this leads to occupying a large space. LG’s explanation is that this larger size improves cooling and prevents them from overheating as much as would happen if they were smaller and had less dissipation area.

And considering this size, wouldn’t it be a good idea to use them in cinemas?

These screens produce an image correctly in bright spaces, unlike cinemas that need the environment to be dark so that the projected image can be seen well. These LG screens produce up to 1200 nits, so there could be cinemas in not so hidden places, although this would take away the immersion we are used to and greatly increase the cost to build a movie theater, so the idea ends up not being. as good as many believed.

Even so, it would be interesting to see if in the future someone implements this technology more economically or if some cinema adopts these screens to show films, although we do not believe that it will happen in the near future.

What do you think of these LG DVLED TVs? Do you think this technology could be more efficient in the future to make smaller screens?

Sources: The Verge, CNET