LG 55EA980W curved OLED TV goes on sale for £8k

LG Curved OLED TV

The new LG curved OLED TV, the 55EA980W, will go on sale in selected retailers in the UK this week.

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Yours for a meagre £8000, the 55in OLED TV follows in the footsteps of the original LG 55EM970V OLED TV, which went on sale for £10,000 back in March.

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That set was only available in Harrod's in London, but this curved OLED promises to be available from "selected retailers across the country", should you be poised, cash-in-hand, ready to splash the necessary £8000.

Both LG and Samsung showed off curved OLED TVs back in January at CES, with Samsung launching its S9C curved OLED at the start of this month.

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The new LG 55EA980W curved OLED feaures LG's WRGB 4-colour pixel technology, Cinema 3D (LG's passive 3D technology) and Smart TV features.

LG says the curved OLED "represents the future of TV", sporting a "gentle inward flex" to ensure the entire screen is the same distance from the viewer's eyes to remove "screen-edge visual distortion and detail loss".

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Joe is the Content Director for What Hi-Fi? and Future’s Product Testing, having previously been the Global Editor-in-Chief of What Hi-Fi?. He has worked on What Hi-Fi? across the print magazine and website for almost 20 years, writing news, reviews and features on everything from turntables to TVs, headphones to hi-fi separates. He has covered product launch events across the world, from Apple to Technics, Sony and Samsung; reported from CES, the Bristol Show, and Munich High End for many years; and written for sites such as the BBC, Stuff and The Guardian. In his spare time, he enjoys expanding his vinyl collection and cycling (not at the same time).