Ultra-thin, high-def TVs battle for CES crown

Las Vegas

A BATTLE for the title of best new television opened on Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), with LG unveiling a new model no thicker than four stacked credit cards.

The South Korean consumer electronics colossus opened a packed day of press conferences at the annual tech extravaganza in Las Vegas with a line-up that included an OLED Signature panel touted as "quite literally, a picture on glass". The television measures an unprecedented 2.57 mm, LG Electronics US marketing vice-president David VanderWaal said during an on-stage presentation.