For years, I've been covering TVs astatine CES and not overmuch surprises me. I've seen immoderate chaotic screens, ones that roll up and ones truthful large they're basically video walls, but aboriginal versions and prototypes prepared maine for those. When I walked into LG's suite astatine a edifice successful Las Vegas, the happening I saw crossed the country came arsenic a large surprise.

And I bash mean big. It's a 97-inch OLED TV, which I archetypal saw erstwhile LG introduced it past year, and it remains the biggest OLED TV successful the world. And since OLED provides the best representation quality available, it's damn awesome successful idiosyncratic astatine that size. But that wasn't the surprise. To me, the jaw-dropper came erstwhile LG's rep told maine the beautiful, monolithic 4K representation was being beamed to the TV without immoderate wires. Wireless TV is real, and it's coming this year.

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Across the country from the TV sat the wireless transmitter box. On the backmost of the container were modular HDMI plugs and a fistful of different connections, and 1 HDMI cablegram ran to a Blu-ray player. The representation connected the surface was from a Blu-ray disc, sent wirelessly -- and flawlessly, to my oculus -- from the container to the TV. The apical of the container tin beryllium rotated to purpose an interior antenna astatine the television.

The TV comes with a transmitter box. The tab astatine the apical denotes the interior antenna, which tin beryllium rotated to purpose astatine the TV.

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The TV itself didn't person immoderate video inputs astatine all, conscionable blank metallic wherever TV inputs usually reside astir back. The thought is to trim wiring, that age-old bugaboo of bully TV installations. You, idiosyncratic who tin spend a 97-inch OLED TV, stash your AV cogwheel wrong a furniture retired of sight, on with the transmitter container into which everything plugs. That leaves lone the powerfulness cord to the TV, a ligament LG artfully hid wrong 1 of the basal legs.

Sure, immoderate fig of TV stands tin besides clasp your gear. But wireless connectivity allows the TV to basal alone, which looks awesome connected 1 of LG's easel-like stands (pictured above) and it tin greatly simplify a wall-mount installation. 

LG says the container tin beryllium located up to 30 feet from the TV. I asked whether the wireless transportation was a imaginable hazard, particularly if you're sitting betwixt the container and the TV, and institution representatives told maine it wasn't due to the fact that it uses akin exertion to modular Wi-Fi routers. They besides said it wouldn't beryllium affected by different Wi-Fi traffic. The awesome tin grip up to 4K, 120Hz resolution, which is beauteous overmuch the maximum for today's games. It's besides the highest solution and framework complaint astir TVs, including LG's mean 4K OLED models, tin accept.

The backside of the transportation container is wherever you plug successful the gear.

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The container has 3 HDMI inputs, astonishing since astir high-end TVs person four, but that's not a deal-breaker successful my book. The remainder of the ports are emblematic for a TV: antenna, 2 USB, Ethernet and optical integer out, arsenic good arsenic a serial larboard for location automation control.

Wireless TVs person been sold successful the past, and wireless tech has appeared successful projectors too. You tin besides bargain wireless HDMI extender kits for $100 oregon less, but they mostly can't grip specified precocious bandwidth. This is the archetypal clip successful years I've seen it built into a TV. A institution called Displace TV besides showed a wireless OLED exemplary astatine CES, but it's a 55-inch, battery-powered surface that's designed for portability.

In summation to the 97-inch size LG volition merchandise its wireless OLED, dubbed the M3 series, successful 83- and 77-inch sizes. LG says it's coming sometime successful 2023 with pricing, similar the remainder of LG's 2023 TVs, inactive to beryllium determined. For reference, LG charges $25,000 for its standard, wired 97-inch OLED TV and $2,900 for a 77-inch one, truthful careless of size, the M3 won't beryllium cheap.

Aside from the M3 LG besides introduced three different bid of wired OLED TVs astatine CES 2023.

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