It’s the TV that has all the home theatre buffs abuzz, and even ordinary folks who don’t follow TV technology as closely are doing double-takes; earlier this year LG unveiled its so-called Wallpaper TV at CES 2017. What’s wallpaper TV? Practically paper-thin, the LG Wallpaper TV (dubbed model “W7”) is only about a millimeter thick, so it goes on your wall almost like a sticker. Officially it’s called the LG Signature 4K OLED TV, but you’ll no doubt be more drawn to its descriptive nickname.
LG’s 4K OLED TV ‘Wallpaper TV’ is a game-changer
LG has changed the way it builds these TVs so that they can be mounted closer to the wall than ever, meaning less visual clutter in your home. Using individually lit pixels, there’s no backlight needed so it’s impossibly thin. It’s truly like hanging a picture on your wall; in fact in many cases this TV will be thinner that even most framed pictures.
If you consider this new technology for a moment, it’s total game changer. For decades, we’ve designed rooms around TVs; they were furniture, then they migrated to thinner products you could wall mount, but they still took up a lot of space. With this kind of ultra thin, paper-thin technology, you can hide your TV behind an actual painting or framed art piece if you really want, or behind a curtain, or a screen. The options are endless. And it’s still going to deliver top quality video.
This hyper-thin LG Wallpaper TV technology is made possible thanks to self-lighting pixels that bring vibrant colour, rich blacks, and infinite contrast to bring all your movie classics, sports or nature documentaries to life.
4K & HDR technology
The TV isn’t just bold on looks. It’s also packed with the latest TV technology. The LG W7 OLED TV has 4K resolution. A quick recap; 4K TV is the highest resolution you can get in a TV today; it’s four times more detailed than even full HD so it makes lines razor sharp, and creates a video picture so real you’ll want to reach out and touch it.
(Read more about 4K TV technology here.) Running low on 4K content? With the LG W7 OLED TV it’s no problem; a 4K upscaler analyzes and upgrades regular HD content in a multi-step process that tweaks images for better detail and clarity.
New TV technology now is also all about colour. HDR technology (High Dynamic Range; read more about that here) helps the TV produce billions more colours, so what you see on screen is more realistic, more subtly shaded and more like real life. If you think about older TVs you know you got the basic red-green-blue-yellow colours but the picture just wasn’t realistic. Today, you can can get thousands of shades of green in a forest scene for gorgeously realistic nature shows, or a thousand shades of sand so that Matt Damon’s Martian landscape looks ultra real. It’s the kind of thing that’s really hard to describe in writing, but you can see in a split second if you pop into a Best Buy.
HDR TVs are also about light; gone are the harsh brights and washed-out blacks of old. Now you get brighter bright spots without glare thanks to LG’s ULTRA Luminance technology which boosts peak brightness to make picture quality even more dynamic. At the same time, LG’s Perfect Black Panel with an anti-glare coating allows for all 8.3 million OLED pixels in the LG W7 OLED TV to turn off individually for absolute black and infinite contrast so that every intricate detail is visible, even in the darkness.
It’s smarter than smart
Today’s TVs need streaming power; it’s just the way we watch our entertainment now. LG Smart TVs come with webOS 3.5 built right in. LG’s smart operating system lets you access apps or stream shows from YouTube, Netflix or a host of other services. Plus you can pair your Bluetooth devices and use them to play music through the TVs speakers, surf the internet on the browser, and even record what’s on screen. LG’s Magic Remote will guide you through whatever you want to do.
And so you’re never fiddling for a spare port for your peripherals, the LG W7 OLED Wallpaper TVs come with 4 HDMI ports and 3 USB ports so you can hook up a range of devices, including Blu-ray players, game consoles, and even USB thumb drives.
Great sound comes standard on Wallpaper TV
Dolby Atmos is the gold standard for home audio today, and the LG W7 TV has it. You can expect powerful, cinematic, full-range audio from the powerful 4.2-channel 60W speaker system, since OLED Surround with Dolby Atmos technology makes it seem like sound is coming from all around you. It’s a truly 3D audio experience.
Interestingly on this particular TV the speakers aren’t part of the screen package; it’s much too thin to incorporate speakers. Instead they’re housed in a separate unit that can be wall mounted or placed on furniture depending on your set up. But that lets LG build more audio power into the unit so it’s got more capability than most built-in speakers.
This is the kind of futuristic new-age TV technology we dreamed of when we were kids. Now it’s reality and you can get your hands on it today. Check out the LG Signature 4K OLED Wallpaper TV at Best Buy.
Much rather have a great set of speakers built into the TV instead of a super thin TV with separate speaker unit. What’s the point of having a super thin TV if you are stuck with a big bulky set of speakers?
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