4K with organic EL!! Amazing visual beauty of LG "55EG9600"

　Organic EL is a display device that has been expected to appear since the full HD era when liquid crystal and plasma were competing for supremacy. As with plasma, each pixel emits light independently, so there are no viewing angle restrictions, and since it does not require pre-emission like plasma, the contrast ratio is overwhelming, and the potential for image quality is high. was known. However, although we succeeded in mass-producing small and medium-sized displays for mobile phones, mass production of large displays such as flat-screen TVs was difficult. It's gone.

In the midst of this, LG Electronics finally commercialized an organic EL TV using the WRGB method. Until last year, full HD pixel organic EL TVs were released in the home country and North America in advance, but in May they were finally introduced in Japan. It is a state-of-the-art model that uses organic EL and a 4K panel.

　The good product featured this time is the LG Electronics "55EG9600" (selling price: 678,880 yen). As a 4K resolution organic EL panel, I imagined a price of 30,000 yen, but I was surprised that the price was actually slightly higher than a 4K LCD TV of the same size. . In the production of full HD organic EL TVs, which were commercialized in advance, we were able to accumulate know-how to solve various problems in mass production. It seems that it is because it was able to improve With such a price difference, some people may want to choose an organic EL with excellent image quality.

　The WRGB organic EL panel is made up of the three primary colors of RGB plus white pixels that assist brightness. Each pixel of the RGB itself emits white light itself, and the color refiner (similar to the color filter of an LCD TV) on the front of the panel is used to display the three primary colors.

　This time, we decided to rent a conference room from LG Electronics and use the same mass-produced 55EG9600 that is actually sold in stores for viewing.