LG launches plans of a "dual premium" TV strategy for 2017-- one involving the launch of OLED screens together with next generation Super UHD LED TVs featuring Nano Cell technology.

Upcoming LG OLED TVs include the 65-inch W7, a display less than 4mm thick when wall-mounted. The company plans to launch five 4K OLED TVs in its home Korea, in screen sizes ranging from 77/65W7, 77/65G7, 65/55E7, 65/55C7 and 65/55B7. More details on specific models in other markets will be revealed locally at time of launch.

Meanwhile Nano Cell technology uses 1-nanometre particles to offer is described as superior colour reproduction by absorbing unnecessary light waves. Such capability allws the LCD displays to filter out specific colours with greater precision, rendering each colour exactly as intended.

A startup founded by the developers of the Sling box presents what it hopes is one STB to rule them all-- the Caavo, an STB able to control up to 8 different devices at once, as well popular streaming services.

The Caavo comes in the shape of an stylish console complete with a replaceable wooden top. It has 8 HDMI inputs paired with software the developer claims automatically recognises and configures just about any device, making it a universal input for all home entertainment needs. Control comes through companion universal remote armed with touchscreen and multi-functional buttons, as well as connected voice-controlled assistants such as Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri.

ISE 2017 sees the debut of the Middle Atlantic Proximity Series Mounting Plate-- a universal display solution integrated with most of the standard-profile mounts in the VDM series.

The Proximity mounting plate can be used with existing mounts, without need for customers to upgrade the entire mount, and offer convenient mounting for small, local devices behind the display via patented UMS pattern.

The VDM series includes 17 mounts in a range of sizes and in fixed, tilt, motion, standard-profile and low-profile options, accommodating VESA patterns up to 800mm. The series comes standard with safety features keeping the display securely attached ot the mount during and after installation, and all hardware required to ensure professional installation.

The VWPOP85 pop-out universal multi-screen video wall mount has been a large success for Edbak. A big part of the reason for its success is…well, how large it is.

This unit is built to handle those 42 inch to 85 inch screens, up to 80 kilos of display. These are the sorts of screens you use to build impressive, room-filling and lobby-filling video walls.

While large itself, the VWPOP85 universal video wall mount weighs only 14kg. It is designed and manufactured in Europe and carries all the leading certifications, including TUV Rhineland. It is fully VESA compliant.

With size and certifications on its resume, it needed only one more quality to move it up to a best-in-class mounting solution: a patented one-touch pop-out mechanism for access and service to each display in the video wall.

The patented Fast Release Pop-out mechanism in the VWPOP design makes it easy to deliver recessed multi-screen installations. The simple one touch “pop out” mechanism allows full extension of the display—it swings out of the video wall where access and servicing can be performed quickly and safely.

According to Bloomberg LG Display is supplying LCD panels to no other than rival Samsung, replacing a Sharp-Foxconn joint venture as supplier to the biggest TV maker in the world.

If the unnamed "people with direct knowledge of the matter" are in the right such a deal would be a first for the two S. Korean rivals. Officially the two companies are "in talks" on LCD supply, but no further elaboration is available as yet. The Bloomberg report adds LG is ready to supply as many as 3 million LCD panels to Samsung in 2016.

Sanus takes on increasingly slim TVs with a slimmer mounting solution-- the VLCF613-B2, a mount sitting just 47mm from the wall when folded flat, complementing modern TVs.

The VLF613 fits TVs between 40 and 80-inch, and has full-motion capability allowing one to extend the screen 342mm into the room, with total swivel of 50-degrees. Virtual Axis finger-tip control enables the tilting of the screen by -8-degrees for an optimum viewing angle if the screen is mounted above eye level.