LG super-thin 55-Inch OLED TV!

LG electronics, the world's second-largest TV maker, started the New Year with a bang, announcing today that it will begin accepting pre-orders for its 55-inch OLED TV this month, and start shipping them in South Korea early next month.

 More than 1,400 LG retail stores in South Korea will begin accepting pre-orders Jan. 3 for the $10,000 product, with deliveries to commence the first week of February.

 LG expects to take the lead in the OLED TV segment as the first and only company to announce availability of the next-gen TV technology.

 The 55-inch television was first unveiled at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. Samsung also introduced a 55-inch OLED at CES last year, but LG is now the first to bring it to market.

 The 55-inch set is the world's largest OLED TV panel. "Not since color TV was first introduced 60 years ago has there been a more transformational moment," LG's Home Entertainment Company CEO, Havis Kwon, said in a statement.

 He boasted that LG's razor-thin OLED TV will leave consumers speechless, "a clear indicator as any that OLED TV is much more than just an incremental improvement to current television technology." The new TV weighs in at less than 22 pounds and 0.16 inches thin.