LG Display is reportedly preparing to spend more money on production facilities for very large OLED panels, with screen sizes up to 111 inches named as part of the plan. According to TechRadar, citing reporting by FlatpanelsHD, the company and its partner Guangzhou Development Zone Holding Group intend to put a further one billion yuan into upgrading the plants.
The market analysis firm TrendForce is credited with the details. TechRadar reports that the upgrades are said to focus mainly on building large OLED modules, covering products at 77, 83, 97 and 111 inches. A panel at the 111-inch mark is described as one of the project's headline goals.
Why it matters
Anyone shopping for an OLED television in genuine home-cinema size runs into two walls quickly: availability and price. At present no OLED TV larger than 97 inches can be bought at all, for the simple reason that nobody makes one.
Price is the second obstacle. TechRadar notes that LG currently lists its 97-inch OLED at $19,999, down from $24,999, and that the set is not even available in Sweden. A production push toward bigger panels could, in time, change both the selection and the cost.
There is also a technical question hanging over the reported investment. The 97-inch panel on sale today is not built on the same technology as LG's smaller OLED sets, and TechRadar asks whether the new spending will address that gap.
The 97-inch panel lags behind its smaller siblings
In the 2026 version of LG's 97-inch OLED TV, the screen is a 4K panel with a 120 Hz refresh rate. But although the model carries the LG G6 name, it does not use the same panel as the rest of the range, according to TechRadar.
The smaller models all use LG's Primary RGB Tandem 2.0 panel. The 97-inch set instead relies on an older panel without Tandem technology — one that, TechRadar reports, dates back to the LG G2 from 2022. That puts it several generations behind, and the consequence is lower brightness and less accurate colour than the other models offer.
That difference carries weight because very large OLED sets compete with some of the strongest mini-LED televisions, and increasingly with RGB mini-LED models as well. Those sets deliver very high brightness and strong colour accuracy while becoming more affordable. TechRadar gives the example of the Hisense E7Q, a 98-inch QLED TV, which can be found in Sweden from around 17,400 kronor — a large sum for a television, but modest for a 98-inch model, and a fraction of what the 97-inch LG OLED costs.
TechRadar's hope is that LG Display breaks the size barrier with enormous OLED TVs built on Tandem RGB technology that are also cheaper to produce. The worst case, in its view, would be the same panel already used in the 97-inch set, simply in a slightly larger format. But because manufacturing of smaller sizes is also named as a goal, the publication reads the ambition as an upgrade of the technology itself, not just an increase in dimensions.
Where the real gain may land
For most buyers, the more meaningful outcome may not be the 111-inch set at all. TechRadar suggests that if the investment makes 111-inch OLED production economically viable while also improving the manufacturing process and lowering costs for 77- and 83-inch models, that is probably where the largest benefit sits.
The reported figures come by way of TrendForce and FlatpanelsHD, and neither LG Display nor Guangzhou Development Zone Holding Group is quoted directly in the coverage. The plans should therefore be treated as reported intentions rather than confirmed product announcements.
What to watch next is whether LG Display confirms the investment and whether any technical specification for a 111-inch panel emerges — in particular whether it would carry Tandem RGB technology or inherit the older design used in today's largest OLED.
