Singapore, 17 October 2005 -- LG Electronics showcased cutting-edge digital products at the 2005 Korea Electronics Show (KES) held at KINTEX in Goyang City on October 11 – 15.

Amongst its portfolio of premium digital convergence products, LG Electronics displayed a host of advanced display units that included the world’s largest 102-inch plasma TV, a 71-inch gold-decorated plasma TV, Timemachine plasma TV, 55-inch full HD LCD TV and memory-card-embedded LCD TV.


Major Products at KES 2005

Plasma TV

LG Electronics’ 102-inch plasma TV boasts a full level HD (2.07-million pixel, 1,920×1,080), double the existing level of HD (1 million-pixel, 1,365×768).

LG Electronics has thus secured the industry’s largest line-up of full HD plasma TVs with 102, 76, 71, and 60 inch sizes.

LG’s full HD plasma TV employs super-speed driving technology and innovative material, which are essential to full HD plasmas. It also has double the resolution of ordinary plasma TVs, yet provides the same level of 1,000 candelas (cd/㎡) and a contrast rate of higher than 5,000:1.

In developing this high-efficiency 102-inch plasma TV, LG Electronics employs high-speed signal treatment technology and its proprietary technology of picture treatment algorithms.

The 102-inch plasma TV was initially developed towards the end of last year at the company’s A2 production line. However, the 102-inch plasma TV displayed at KES 2005, was produced at its A3 production line, which began full operation in September.

The world’s largest commercialized 71-inch plasma TV features 1080p, scanning line full HD images and a screen ratio of 16:9.

LG Electronics also showcased a gold-decorated home theater system, together with a 71-inch plasma TV in ‘Luxury Gold Design.’

The HDR plasma TV, the first of its kind in the world to be equipped with a hard disk recording device, comes with a memory card slot and a 160GB hard disk. This device possesses 2-3 times the storage capacity of an ordinary PC and is designed to record and play up to 13 hours of HD broadcasts and up to 63 hours of analog broadcasts without a separate storage device.

This product employs the Timemachine function, designed to automatically record one hour of broadcasts, thus allowing users uninterrupted viewing of TV programs.

PDP Module

LG Electronics boasted cutting-edge technologies in the plasma category with 60-inch full HD plasmas and 50-inch single-scan plasmas, amongst others.

The 60-inch full HD PDP, the first of its kind in the world, delivers a full HD resolution level (2.07-million pixels, 1,920×1,080), double the existing HD level (one million pixel, 1,365×768).

Also world-firsts, the 42-inch and 50-inch single-scan PDPs feature 1,000 candelas by employing a new electric discharging cell structure with efficiency upgraded by 30% compared to existing models, as well as a new electric discharge gas. They support a contrast ratio of 10,000: 1 and deliver clearer pictures by employing its proprietary picture clarity enhancement algorithms.

LCD TV

LG Electronics unveiled 55-inch full HD LCD TVs and multi-memory slot-embedded LCD TVs.

The memory slot-embedded digital tuner, a 32-inch LCD TV (32LP1D), employs a 9-in-2 multi memory-card slot, allowing it to use a total of nine memory cards such as CF/MD/SD/SMC/MMC/ MS/MS Pro/MagicStar /Xd, as well as displaying photos and delivering live sounds of MP3 files stored in memory cards through the stereo speaker.

A 55-inch, LG LCD TV represented the world’s first 50-inch range model to be commercialized. The LCD TV is equipped with the XD Engine, a picture clarity enhancement device, designed to perfectly treat digital signals, as well as delivering a full HD resolution of 1920×1080(1080p).

The 55-inch LCD TV, employing a S-IPS module, allows users to watch high-clarity TV at a 178 degree angle, the world’s largest, horizontally and vertically.

LCD Monitor

LG unveiled LCD monitors with innovative designs and functions, reflecting various consumer needs.

80-series (L1780Q and L1980Q) LCD monitors deliver the world’s thinnest, 20.5mm depth, half the depth of existing monitors, and a 66mm depth in folded mode.

In particular, they deliver a high contrast ratio of 1600:1. They also employ Auto-Pivot and Auto-Mirror functions. The auto-Pivot function is designed to automatically allow for the rotation of the monitor to achieve portrait mode. The Auto-Mirror function is designed to flip screen content when the display is turned over.

The 40-series LCD monitors (model: L1740PQ and others) possess artistic designs based on a balanced blend of straight and curved lines.

Meanwhile, 80-series and 4-series products provide the world’s fastest response speed of 8ms.

Mobile Phones

LG Electronics showcased about 20 kinds of new cutting-edge products and accessories, such as the T-style design satellite/terrestrial DMB phones, multi-tasking super-small fashion Music Phone, 5-million-pixel digital camera phone, Slide Up & Down Phone, Navigation Phone and 3D Game Phone.

In addition, LG Electronics unveiled a super-compact Fashion Music Phone (LG-KP4700) at KES. The Music Phone features an advanced MP3 function, which allows users to search songs through voice recognition, and supports multi-tasking functions that allow users to listen to music and simultaneously send short text messages.

The product, presented in a necklace style, is destined to become a fashion item in the same mould as an MP3 player. Equipped with a large-capacity memory, it can store up to 48 songs (with a 4MB limit per song). It also supports an external memory (T-Flash), allowing expandability.

Built-in Home Appliances

LG Electronics’ built-in products came in unique designs, colors, materials, panel height, and button shapes looking like home furniture.

The products, which coordinate aluminium color with materials, included dishwashers, kimchi refrigerators, light-wave ovens (upper and lower ovens), combination refrigerators, hoods, and wine cellars.

A HomeNet system links the kitchen’s dish washer, light-wave oven, and kimchi refrigerator with the living room, and demonstrates the capability to automatically power kitchen appliances and even control the gas pipe valve.

DIOS Collection

LG also presented the new DIOS collection of premium kitchen appliances – showcasing them to consumers interested in premium kitchen interior designs.

The DIOS collection incudes a DIOS side-by-side refrigerator, DIOS brand kimchi refrigerator, wine cellar, light-wave oven and dishwasher.

Roboking

The Roboking robot cleaner was demonstrated, with its ability to clean a 3.5m x 3.5m area. Six units in three colors were showcased during the show.

Roboking, employing a quiet and durable Brushless Direct Circuit motor, can suction dust ten times stronger than ordinary robot cleaners (10 ~30W). Roboking, the world’s first cleaner equipped with a lithium polymer battery (Li-PB), has a life 4-8 times longer than ordinary robot cleaners. An accurate gyro sensor allows Roboking to thoroughly clean a desired space.

PC

LG Electronics’ new-concept AV equipment, DV50, combines a PC, a DVD player, and a home theatre system, the first of its kind. Equipped with a digital TV tuner, it can be used as a set-top box. It is equipped with a large 160GB hard disk, allowing it to record, play and copy HDTV programs.

In particular, the DV50, which is equipped with the Timemachine function, can record and play TV programs.

Also, a Sonoma platform-based 12.1-inch high-performance terrestrial DMB laptop PC (LW20) was showcased.

The specially equipped LW20 features a 12.1-inch wide LCD, 3-watt (two 1.5-watt speakers) high-output stereo speakers, allowing it to become a mobile theatre.

In addition, the LW20, despite its compact 12-inch size, is equipped with a Pentium M 2.13GHz CPU and a large 1GB DDR2 memory, and features a highly-polished blue casing.