LG's stunning bendable OLED display to be unveiled at CES 2022

LG'south stunning bendable OLED brandish to exist unveiled at CES 2021

LG's new bendable gaming monitor concept

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When buying a gaming monitor, one of the first things you accept to do is decide whether flat or curved suits your needs. The two have pros and cons. Curved screens offering more than immersion in games, and can reduce eye strain, but they're prone to glare and aren't platonic if you're a designer that works with straight lines.

But the Korean display specialists at LG take some other manner. At CES 2021, LG Display will be demoing a 48-inch OLED gaming monitor that can switch from flat to curved at the press of a button: the Bendable CSO (Cinematic Audio OLED) display.

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Given LG makes several of the all-time TVs around, this is quite an exciting development, and the company promises that the screen will offering "a compatible viewing altitude from the middle of the screen to its edge."

As well as unfolding to a curvature radius of up to 1,000R, the screen has another tricks up its sleeve, including the 'cinematic sound' mentioned in its working championship. Underneath the panel is a 0.6mm moving picture exciter, which turns the screen into a speaker. LG suggests that sound coming at you direct from the screen will make your gaming sessions all the more immersive.

OLED applied science is taking off in the TV and phone market, only isn't as widely adopted for PC gaming. It does offer sure advantages though, with each pixel emitting its own light for an space dissimilarity ratio leading to superb picture quality (albeit at the toll of a lower overall effulgence). Hither, LG promises a response fourth dimension of 0.1 milliseconds which should be plenty for even the twitchiest of shooters.

However, there is a weak spot for the most demanding of gamers, and that's refresh rates. LG Display's Bendable CSO supports a variable refresh charge per unit from 40Hz to 120Hz, and while that'southward up there with the peak TVs (where 120Hz has only simply become bachelor via HDMI 2.1), the best gaming monitors tend to hit a minimum of 144Hz, and go all the way up to 360Hz. Refresh rate direct impacts the frames per second that can be displayed (i.e: a 120Hz screen will cap at 120fps), so it'south quite a big deal for performance gamers.

Still, 120fps isn't exactly tiresome, and many gamers might accept that drawback for the ability to switch between curved and flatscreen gaming at the touch of a button. For now, though, this is only a concept with no price or release date in sight. But if it captures imaginations at CES 2021, LG Display'southward bendable OLED could become commercially available before long plenty.

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Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are institute all over the web and in the occasional magazine also. When not weighing upward the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, yous'll probably discover him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.