The South Korean electronics giant launched its 2022 OLED, QNED, and UHD TV lineup at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 happening this week in Las Vegas. The new OLED TVs range includes a new 97-inch G2 4K display and the world’s first 42-inch LG42C2 4K OLED panel aimed primarily at the gaming market.
The TVs feature a number of technology innovations. They include new brightness booster technology in the Gallery line of OLED evo panels, an improvement made possible by a new heat dissipation system; the inclusion of LG’s new Alpha 9 (a9) Gen. 5 processor on the high-end displays, taking the displays from sub-4K up to full 4K resolution; and tone mapping applied to 5,000 zones (compared to just 576 previously). LG has also added a new AI object enhancement to help separate the foreground from backgrounds in imagery.
According to LG these enhancements have helped the industry leader “raise the bar in picture quality.”
The panels found in the 2022 OLED lineups “have been certified by global product testing agency Intertek for 100 percent color fidelity and 100 percent color volume”, LG said in a statement.
“LG OLED TVs are unique in their ability to match the colors in the original source content and express all colors accurately regardless of how bright or dark the displayed images may be.”
All the new OLEDs have also been certified flicker-free by the testing and certification companies TÜV Rheinland and Underwriters Laboratories. They have been certified glare-free by UL.
As well as being recognized by TÜV Rheinland for their low blue light performance LG’s new OLEDs have also set a new certification record by becoming “the first in the world that meet the low blue light emission requirement of Eyesafe, a US-based health standards agency,” LG said.
OLED TVs use self-lighting pixels that can be turned on and off individually to ensure far better contrast and more natural colors than back-lit displays. The absence of backlights also allows OLED to be made thinner and lighter than every other display technology, allowing for innovations such as bendable and rollable TVs.