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Amazing, I always wanted to roll up my TV.

Can’t tell if you are joking or not, but when I unboxed my tv and was able to hold it up with one hand, easily and bend and twist it...pretty f’ing cool. It attaches to the wall with clips and magnets.

Rolling it up is great for some people. My wife isn’t a huge fan of giant TVs taking up space. The less than a pencil thickness of the lg tv makes it cooler than most, but being able to put it away or move it so easily would be cool.

They are only going to get more flexible. Soon you will have displays on everything and walls that double as TVs.

The lg wallpaper tv is my favorite piece of tech I’ve ever owned...unless you go back to the NES/SNES!

I can't work out if you're joking.

I want it too and I'm not joking. I don't want to 'waste' a whole wall for a large TV, but if I could hang a rolled up TV on a book case and only pull it out when I needed it I would love that.

That being said I'm not expecting to see one at a price I'd want to pay in the next 15 years

Just out of curiosity, what do you expect to be able to use the wall for when it's not covered by the TV?

Roll-up posters hung somewhere else that roll out to cover the same area?

what do you expect to be able to use the wall for when it's not covered by the TV?

A bookshelf. I have a bookshelf on the wall doing what bookshelves do. And then I'll hang the TV 'roll' in front of one of the shelves and pull it down in front of the bookshelf when I want to use it.

You could do that with a projector, too, probably very well indeed for the cost of a similarly sized OLED display that rolls up like a projection screen. (Wouldn't be surprised if that OLED roll has a pretty limited lifespan, too, between all that physical stress and the way OLEDs degrade anyway.)

I don’t know what you can afford, but oleds have come down 30-40% just since I purchased mine. Won’t take 15 years I don’t think.

The ‘standard’ oleds (which all look amazing) are going to the standard soon. The quality of the picture, blacks especially, is instantly noticeable.

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