LG G1 OLED 2021, now in 42 inch size

Perfect! 48 was slightly too large for me to go onto desktop but 42" should be perfect. Hopefully if they have done the raised black VRR hardware fix, with higher peak brightness, should be a damm amazing gaming monitor.
 
Perfect! 48 was slightly too large for me to go onto desktop but 42" should be perfect. Hopefully if they have done the raised black VRR hardware fix, with higher peak brightness, should be a damm amazing gaming monitor.

Having put my 42inch telly at the end on my desk 100cm away it's still far to big for a monitor, the amount of head and eye movement needed is ridiculous.

Make my a 32 inch panel and I'd be all over it but it seems there slipping out of fashion.
 
Having put my 42inch telly at the end on my desk 100cm away it's still far to big for a monitor, the amount of head and eye movement needed is ridiculous.

Make my a 32 inch panel and I'd be all over it but it seems there slipping out of fashion.

It did say that they are putting 20 and 30" panels into production as well. 30" is about as large as I'd want to go for a monitor, 42" for a TV is perfect (for me) though.
 
Having put my 42inch telly at the end on my desk 100cm away it's still far to big for a monitor, the amount of head and eye movement needed is ridiculous.

Make my a 32 inch panel and I'd be all over it but it seems there slipping out of fashion.

Ahhh I have put 40" before and found it okay and use 38" day to day, though in ultrawide so think 42" should be okay for me in daily use mounted to the wall. guess we shall see! But for me I think 42" or there abouts was the limit of what I was looking for.
 
Different strokes for different folks. A 42 inch screen would be fine for me on a desk with 1m+ depth. A 42 inch screen in my living room would be far too small now for film and series viewing. I consider my 55 inch screen to be medium size nowadays and would upgrade to a bigger screen if it didn't mean rearranging the living room and speaker positions!

All comes down to price for me at the end of the day. I understand smaller panel cuts for OLED are more costly but I ain't paying 1500 quid for a 42 inch screen, even if it's miles better than gaming monitors around the same price that are massively inflated.
 
I think the price is going to be the crux. The smaller panels in themselves are not expensive to cut, rather they are offcut motherglass from the larger panels which are made in less volume which is what drives up the price. In case of 48" it was offcut from the 77" motherglass. I suspect this 42" will be cut on the same motherglass as the 83" model which is likely to be produced even less, so yeah, this 42" one is gonna be pretty limited and pricey I expect given they are not going to mass produce the 83". Unless they are planning to produce loads of smaller panels on a motherglass sheet, but not done math for that.
 
If this is priced correctly I can see myself getting this. We got a CX last year and it converted me to OLED. My current monitor was amazing when I got it but it's getting a bit old now (asus rog swift... the original TN panel) and when I watch TV then go and use my monitor I can't stand the blacks now I'm used to OLED blacks.

The 48" was tempting but a bit too big for the space I have for a monitor plus the price was ridiculous. If this is ~£1000 at most I could well be tempted to get it
 
I think the price is going to be the crux. The smaller panels in themselves are not expensive to cut, rather they are offcut motherglass from the larger panels which are made in less volume which is what drives up the price. In case of 48" it was offcut from the 77" motherglass. I suspect this 42" will be cut on the same motherglass as the 83" model which is likely to be produced even less, so yeah, this 42" one is gonna be pretty limited and pricey I expect given they are not going to mass produce the 83". Unless they are planning to produce loads of smaller panels on a motherglass sheet, but not done math for that.

You are right the panel glass 8.5g is only 2500x2200mm and you only can cut two 77 and 48inch with 35% of glass waste that's why the 48inch is more expensive and limited, to cut a 42 from 83 the glass panel have to be 3370mm x 29400mm 10.5g glass but then again it might still be with 35/37% waste so that would drive up the price of the 42inch at a cost of a 48inch in 2020, but the 10.5g glass factory was shelfed by LG last year because of Covid-19.
 
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Also new, this years models get a brand new panel where as the last 3 years have been the same panel with slight modifications.

This year the panel gets something "OLED Evo" that uses "luminous elements". That's about as much as I can find out more details to come later. The jist of it is that this years panels are 20% brighter than before and use 20% less energy
 
Also new, this years models get a brand new panel where as the last 3 years have been the same panel with slight modifications.

This year the panel gets something "OLED Evo" that uses "luminous elements". That's about as much as I can find out more details to come later. The jist of it is that this years panels are 20% brighter than before and use 20% less energy
That's only for the G series and up though.
 
I think the price is going to be the crux. The smaller panels in themselves are not expensive to cut, rather they are offcut motherglass from the larger panels which are made in less volume which is what drives up the price. In case of 48" it was offcut from the 77" motherglass. I suspect this 42" will be cut on the same motherglass as the 83" model which is likely to be produced even less, so yeah, this 42" one is gonna be pretty limited and pricey I expect given they are not going to mass produce the 83". Unless they are planning to produce loads of smaller panels on a motherglass sheet, but not done math for that.

the smaller panels have higher ppi, than the bigger panels, so may have their own manufacturing(smaller features) and reliability problems (heat dissipation with smaller pixels going brighter) so higher price than a 55or65 maybe justified.

edit: now, if only Panasonic Carlsberg made 41's ... they're back in the usa market
 
the smaller panels have higher ppi, than the bigger panels, so may have their own manufacturing(smaller features) and reliability problems (heat dissipation with smaller pixels going brighter) so higher price than a 55or65 maybe justified.

edit: now, if only Panasonic Carlsberg made 41's ... they're back in the usa market

That's true, but I would not expect the higher PPI to mean a 42" outweigh the 65 price wise. Be less material going into the 42" and while the PPI is a factor, we do not see that trend in other areas like monitor where smaller ones are more expensive due to higher PPI. I expect the higher cost aspect will simply come down to, if it needs to share the same glass as models which are in lower demand, then it means less of these small ones.
 
Oooh, I keep eyeing up the 48 but thinking the res is not high enough for something that size, 42 being an inch smaller than what I currently use will be great, would be nice to see some resolutions higher than 4K though but not 8K, 8K is too many pixels to be useful on a desktop at 40 inches and you'd end up scaling. A 21:9 would be nice @ 5120x2160, dreaming again.
 
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