{"id":1188,"date":"2022-03-22T11:08:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/lg-lowers-the-price-of-entry-for-an-8k-oled-tv-to-13000-ars-technica\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T11:08:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:08:54","slug":"lg-lowers-the-price-of-entry-for-an-8k-oled-tv-to-13000-ars-technica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/lg-lowers-the-price-of-entry-for-an-8k-oled-tv-to-13000-ars-technica\/","title":{"rendered":"LG lowers the price of entry for an 8K OLED TV\u2014to $13,000 – Ars Technica"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scharon Harding<\/span><\/a> – Z2 series of 8K OLED TVs<\/a> in January, LG said on Monday that the Z2 TVs will release in April. The 76.7-inch TV will come in at $12,999, while the 87.6-inch model will cost $24,999. That’s $7,000 cheaper than 2020’s ZX 76.7-inch 8K OLED TV<\/a> and $5,000 cheaper than the 88-inch class<\/a>.
LG’s upcoming Z2 lineup is pricey, but the sets are among the only options<\/a> if you want 8K in contrast-rich OLED. B&O’s 8K OLED TV starts at $18,125<\/a> for 65 inches. Samsung’s 8K TVs use a Mini LED backlight, but the 2022 Neo QLED<\/a> is $6,500 for an 84.5-inch<\/a> model. The 74.5-inch version<\/a>, meanwhile, costs $4,700.
The new 8K OLED TVs upgrade the lineup from LG’s\u00a0\u03b19 Gen 3 AI processor to Gen 5, which brings deep-learning-based upscaling. Gen 5 introduces LG’s Dynamic Tone-mapping Pro Algorithm, “which individually processes over 5,000 areas on the screen, enhancing each to produce a more vivid and detailed image” in bright and dark areas, LG said. The\u00a0\u03b19 Gen 5 also powers the TVs’ 7.12 virtual surround sound.
Software updates include a more customizable webOS 22. That covers user profiles, too. Like the prior 8K TVs, the 2022 models will run at 120 Hz with a 0.1 ms gray-to-gray response time and HDMI 2.1. The sets will support variable\u00a0refresh rates for both AMD and Nvidia graphics cards.
LG today also announced pricing for this year’s lineup of its more attainable 4K OLEDs. The high-end G2 “Gallery Edition” series with LG’s purportedly brighter “OLED Evo” panel\u00a0will start at $2,199 for 54.6 inches<\/a> in April, and the flagship C2 series, which also uses OLED Evo, will start at $1,399 for 42.1 inches<\/a> in May.
The B2 series will start at $1,499 (54.6 inches) in March. We’re still waiting for pricing and release dates for the entry-level A2 series.
LG’s announcement comes a few days after Samsung announced that its first OLED TV in a decade, the\u00a0Samsung OLED (S95B)<\/a>, which uses colorful quantum dot tech called QD-OLED<\/a>, will start at $2,200 for 54.6 inches<\/a>.
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Front page layoutSite themeSign up or login to join the discussions! Scharon Harding – Mar 21, 2022 6:06 pm UTC 8K TVs aren’t very popular yet. There’s limited content to watch on them, and the difference between 4K and 8K can be hard to spot in a home theater setup. But perhaps the most obvious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}