7mm Thick LCD TV from Samsung at Consumer Electronics Show

Samsung Electronics is going to unveil a flat-panel TV which is just 6.5 millimeters thick. The company will unveil the product at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The TV set is between 6.5mm and 7mm across its width and has an LED backlight.

The backlight sits behind the LCD panel and generates the light that shines through it to allow the image to be seen. Most LCD panels use thicker backlights that make use of fluorescent lights but LEDs are fast finding favor with TV makers for their thinness and better overall light.

If the demonstrations are to be believed then he Samsung TV stands to be the thinnest LCD TV at present.

Until now that record was held by Philips, which unveiled an 8mm prototype LCD television at the IFA electronics show in Berlin last year. At the same event Sony took the wraps off a 9.9mm set that has already gone on sale and fortunately that happens to be the thinnest LCD TV available in retail stores.

Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas begins on Thursday. Samsung has scheduled a news conference at which the TV set is expected to be first shown.

Even thinner TVs based on a newer screen technology called OLED (organic light emitting diode) are also expected to be on show at CES. Sony used last year's CES to launch the first commercial OLED TV into the U.S. market and no manufacturer has yet to follow-up the 11-inch XEL-1 with a competitor.

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