LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper

Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by dagw on Monday January 04, 2016 @06:22AM (#10834932)

The big issue with those types of displays is that the rest of the electronics can't fit in that package.

If you make it like a roll up projector screen then you could fit the electronics in the top 'bar' that the screen rolls into. You could also add the speakers into the same bar, making for a fairly compact package.

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by dogma1138 on Monday January 04, 2016 @06:41AM (#10834992)

That's quite possible but it's not the form factor from LG's TV concept I just don't see them fitting a full TV under 5mm like in their concept, not in the next 10 years or so.

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by dagw on Monday January 04, 2016 @06:47AM (#10835018)

OK, how about a plug behind the TV and a wire that runs along/behind the wall to a big back box stashed in a closet somewhere. I mean it's going to need power, so you can't completely get rid of all the wires.

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by mattlutze on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:17AM (#10835149)

10 years is quite a long time.

Today 10 years ago we didn't yet have Twitter, for example. BlueRay was only a year old. I imagine many folks were still looking at CRT televisions as something to buy for their family.

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by dogma1138 on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:27AM (#10835203)

Look at the TTM for OLED screens or flexible screens for that matter... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_display POC to product is 10-15 year Prototype/Concept to product is usually 5-8 years.

Philips had a roller display demoing in 2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollable_display But we are still not close to it being a product.

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by mattlutze on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:48AM (#10843806)

I wrote a few college research papers on commercial OLED tech back in 2004... that one never got enough love, though the price fixing and profiteering the big display makers were doing in the 00's makes me think that it's possible they squashed some of that advancement to try and milk their LCD profits as much as possible.

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by jacquesm on Monday January 04, 2016 @06:58AM (#10835068)

What's the thinnest tablet?

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