LG Unveils 325-Inch 8K TV That Costs $1.7 Million and Weighs As Much as a Mazda Miata

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LG has unveiled the perfect TV for display enthusiasts who have way too much room space and money on their hands.



As part of its new Direct View LED (DVLED) lineup of home cinema displays, LG will be releasing a 325-inch 8K panel that costs $1.7 million and weighs in at over 2,000 pounds. LG’s DVLED products were previously limited to commercial buyers, but evidently, they will soon be available to anyone who’s rich enough in a massive way.



The core technology behind LG’s 325-inch DVLED Extreme Home Cinema display is Direct View LEDs, a category that exciting display technologies such as MicroLED falls under. LG suggests that many of the TVs in the DVLED family can qualify as such because they feature a pixel pitch of 0.9 mm.



“All of the DVLED Extreme Home Cinema displays with the 0.9 mm COB LED Package type are using MicroLED,”...

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[Brian_B]

I'm left wondering what chair is that in the lower righthand corner

 

[Paul_Johnson]

Too small for my home theatre. Pass.

 

[Zarathustra]

In for 5!

Pentafinity!

 

[DrezKill]

Huh, never heard of Direct View LED before. Would like to know more about it.

 

[Grimlakin]

Huh, never heard of Direct View LED before. Would like to know more about it.

It sounds like a way to stitch together multiple OLED panels and have them be in sync with one another.

And I bet it looks a hell of a lot more janky than the suggested image in the press release.

 

[Burticus]

It sounds like a way to stitch together multiple OLED panels and have them be in sync with one another.

And I bet it looks a hell of a lot more janky than the suggested image in the press release.

I dunno, Samsung was able to pull it off with their "Wall" modular system. Once it's put together you cannot see seams or tell it's not one huge screen. Allegedly anyway, as I have never seen one IRL, just on the net.