LG Brings 15-inch OLED TV To Europe

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Sony may be giving up on OLED TVs for now, but LG Electronics isn’t. LG is planning to release their upcoming 15EL9500 OLED HDTV to the European market in May, with a North American release later in “the summer”. OLED technology is praised as the “next-generation” of flat-panel technology but it’s difficult to produce in large screens and expensive.

Sony was among the first to begin offering OLED HDTVs but after the expensive units sold poorly in their homeland of Japan, Sony pulled them from the Japanese market with the Sony OLEDs expected to be removed from North America and Europe soon.

LG is pressing on with their own OLED TV. The 15EL9500 will be a very thin new display. At only 15-inches, it can’t exactly take pride of place in your living room, but it could make for a nice kitchen television or something similar.

In addition to its thickness (measures only 3mm-thick), it also has a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio and an impressive 0.001ms response time. It will support 720p HD resolutions (but keep in mind that OLED screens have a very crisp image) and we know it will have HDMI and digital audio out.

As said in the title, the MSRP for this OLED HDTV is a steep €1,999 ($2,713). Here’s a picture of the HDTV from the side.