LG’s clever take on a transparent TV will finally come out a year after being shown, but don’t expect to find it in most living rooms.
Some of the world’s coolest technology tends to take its time to arrive, and some of it can really take some time.
Flying cars? Not here yet. Smart fridges? Still largely difficult to find, though they do exist. But transparent TVs? They are becoming a thing. Finally. Eventually. As close to holographic displays as they get.
We saw an example of them last year when LG trotted out the world’s first transparent OLED, and Samsung wasn’t far behind with its own take on a totally see-through TV, either.
However, it seems as though LG will have the first ready for release this year, as the LG OLED T becomes legit.
Part of LG’s Signature range, the OLED T is pretty much up there as one of the more intriguing TVs we’re likely to see, delivering a screen in a custom piece of frame furniture, complete with LG’s Zero Connect Box used for its wireless OLED TVs. The experience is as premium as that screen, if not more, rendering 4K at 120Hz, but doing so without cords thanks to LG’s wireless technology.
The transparent OLED screen is the real start of the show, a 77 inch see-through OLED screen fixed to that size and delivering an always-on element called the “T-Objet” that can show imagery and artwork all the time, while the “T-Bar” is a ticker bar of information that can always sit at the bottom.
Together, it makes for an intriguing TV concept that blends art and furniture together as one, and screams “luxury” from a simple glance.
But while LG hasn’t announced an official price for Australia, early expectations see the OLED T as a pricey TV. As it is, the 97 inch wireless OLED M4 is $42K locally. With transparent technology marrying the wireless capability of the Zero Connect Box, we’d expect the OLED T to be more expensive, possibly hitting closer to the $100K mark locally, though it could be less.
The US will reportedly get the OLED T first, landing this month, with additional markets to follow later on. We don’t expect it to be cheap anywhere.
Essentially, if you’re someone who has to have the best and latest technology, and money is no object, you might end up being one of the few homes with rich rooms set to sport a transparent TV in 2025 ahead of everyone else.
