Stuff UK — June 2017

[ Words

Tom Parsons ]

t doesn’t happen

nearly as regularly

as you might

imagine, but every

once in a while something truly,

breathtakingly awesome and

original comes along to shake

up a stagnating section of

gadget land. LG’s ‘Wallpaper’

W7 TV is one such something.

This is a telly that’s just 2.57mm

thick, is bendable, and clings

to your wall with magnets. It

is astonishing.

The W7 is the best-looking,

most striking TV the world has

ever seen. And crucially, it also

improves on the picture quality

of last year’s OLEDs, which

means it’s utterly stunning

in action. This is looking like

a bumper year for brilliant TVs,

and LG is no longer the only

purveyor of OLED, but we’re

yet to get those other tellies

to test – and right now it’s very

hard to find fault in the W7’s

incredible picture, especially

watching or playing 4K HDR.

That isn’t to say there aren’t

caveats, the key one being that

you can get the same picture

quality for much less by buying

one of LG’s other 2017 OLEDs.

But if you did that you wouldn’t

get a TV that looks like this...

Will the real slim

telly please stand up?

LG has taken the ‘summer body’ concept to the extreme with its revolutionary

Wallpaper design... but is the style papering over any cracks in the W7’s picture?

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£7999 / lg.com

FIRST TEST LG W7 TV