My Cart - Love it or loathe it, mainstream culture can’t get enough of being skinny. Whether it’s rake thin catwalk models, celebrities poking journalists’ eyes out with their clavicles at award ceremonies or the rows of emaciated teenagers outside the local cinema on a Saturday evening, thin is in, or at least people silly enough to care about that kind of thing think it is.
But it appears television manufacturers LG are also jumping on the “size zero” bandwagon, with the release of their new “skinny frame” range. The overall size of LCD TVs is nothing compared to the chunky boxes that cluttered your living areas in the old days of cathode ray tubes, but LG believe that there is still work to be done in the area of space efficiency, and have thus released two new TVs featuring a mere 25mm of frame around the outer edge of the screen.
LG LCD TVs
There is no doubting the clean, clear lines of the new LG LCD TVs, but whether the new look is worthy of an upgrade in its own right is debatable. As yet, the two screens, 50 and 60 inches respectively, are only available in Korea anyway, and with so many great deals available on a similarly sized LG 42 LCD TV you are probably better off shopping around for an older model if in the market for a new screen right now. It is an interesting glimpse of a super-thin future though, perhaps when LCD screen, DVR and satellite decoder will be combined in to a single, slender pane on the wall.
