LG Shows Off Slim 'Signature' OLED 4K TV

LAS VEGAS—Most product and series announcements at CES are for one blazon of device. A visitor volition announce an HDTV, a speaker, a washing machine, or a tablet. LG is eschewing that tactic by revealing LG Signature, the company'due south cross-category premium brand that combines home electronics and appliances.

CES 2022 Bug Art LG Signature products—the first of which include an HDTV, fridge, washing machine, and air purifier—are stark and fashionable. They're designed past Torsten Valeur, master designer of the line and president of David Lewis Designers.

First up is the LG Signature OLED G6, the company's newest and highest-end HDTV. It takes LG'southward philosophy of minimizing HDTV bezels to an extreme by eliminating them entirely. The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel is attached to a single drinking glass sheet, measuring just 2.57mm thick with no physical frame. The base is an integrated speaker organisation that can fold backside the screen for wall mounting.

LG OLED G6

Because information technology'southward an OLED panel, it lacks a dissever backlighting system and, if it performs remotely like to previous LG OLED HDTVs we've reviewed, it's capable of displaying perfect black levels. The G6 supports loftier dynamic range (HDR) content with Dolby Vision, and LG claims it tin can cover 99 percentage of the DCI colour space. It is, of course, an ultra high-definition (UHD or 4K) telly, and the president of the UHD Alliance, Hanno Basse, appeared at LG's press conference to discuss the G6'due south UltraHD Premium certification.

LG Signature Washing Machine (US) The new LG Signature washing motorcar is a stark white-and-black box that looks like a panel from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's an all-in-one washer-dryer unit that features a heat pump for drying, and incorporates a Centum drive interruption system that LG says reduces noise. The controls are integrated into a affect-sensitive disc on the front end-loading door. Oddly, the model displayed at LG's press conference doesn't seem intended for the U.S. market; a divide stainless steel version volition be released for North America.

The LG Signature air purifier users a semi-permanent filter organization that can be washed repeatedly for upwardly to x years, and tin can remove particles as small-scale as one micrometer.

Finally, the new LG Signature fridge is a stainless steel side-past-side-door refrigerator with LG'south door-in-door for like shooting fish in a barrel access to foot items. The door features smart glass that automatically becomes clear when you knock on it, and darkens when yous walk away. A foot sensor on the fridge also automatically opens the door when yous put your foot in front of it, and the interior is clad in stainless steel, like the outside.

LG has not yet withal announced pricing or availability for the LG Signature line in the U.Due south. An LG Signature dishwasher and oven are coming later this twelvemonth.