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Sony announced the A9G as its new flagship 4K OLED TV at CES 2019 and in the past year it has managed to rack up its fair share of awards and recognition. We spent a few weeks with the TV, which addresses a major oversight of its predecessor.

CES 2020 is just around the corner, and LG Display is revealing OLED screens for airplanes, cars, hotels and living rooms – including a version of its rollable television that is hidden in the ceiling and pulled down like a projector screen.

A materials science and engineering team from Korea's Yonsei University has developed a 3D printing technique enabling OLED screens to be printed into transparent structures of any shape, meaning nearly anything can become a see-through color display.

LG has announced the global rollout of its 88-inch Signature OLED 8K television, along with a 75-inch 8K NanoCell TV.

​We first got a glimpse of the world's first 88-inch 8K OLED display from LG back in January 2018, which was then shown off in August at IFA 2018. But it's buyers in South Korea who get the first bite at this monster cherry as LG announces that pre-orders on its home turf start this week.​

Panasonic has included a transparent OLED display concept as part of a Salone del Mobile installation from Swiss furniture brand Vitra. Looking like a glass cabinet, the display concept is the first of a number looking at how new technologies can be seamlessly integrated into the modern home.

Bang & Olufsen has unveiled the Beovision Harmony. When the system is playing music, a television rests on the floor behind the system's audio unit. When it's time for onscreen entertainment, the fronts fan out and the TV rises from behind.

​Panasonic has unveiled its latest 4K OLED flagship TV that packs a few firsts. In addition to being the first TV to pack upward-facing speakers capable of delivering Dolby Atmos audio, the GZ2000 is also the first TV to support both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision formats.

​As television screen sizes continue to increase, the viewing experience may improve, but the TVs also take up more space within a room. LG has set out to address that problem, with what it claims is the world's first production roll-up OLED TV.

​Earlier this year, LG opened the box on its 2018 TV line up, which included no less than 10 OLED models varying in size from 55 to 77 diagonal inches. At IFA today, the company has revealed its intention to be first to market with an 8K OLED TV.​

Sony was the first to market with an OLED TV in 2007, but it was a decade before its second OLED model, the A1E. Sony followed the success of that model with the A8F (AF8 in Europe), and New Atlas has spent a few weeks basking in its impressive glow (and even more impressive blacks).

LG has unveiled its crop of premium TVs for 2018, which includes 10 OLED models and nine so-called “Super UHD” LCD models. All 19 of these TVs have been smartened up with the company’s Alpha processors to render images faster, and the ThinQ AI system to enable voice commands.