Blue light comes from many sources — street lights, interior lights, the sun, and even your TV. If your eyes are exposed to large amounts of harmful blue light for a long time, melatonin can be suppressed, leading to problems such as sleep disturbance. So, when you watch TV, it’s important which TV you watch.

You may have noticed the flashing on a monitor before — that’s flicker. The flicker effect can be both visible and invisible, and even the invisible flicker puts stress on your eyes. Flicker occurs on LED TVs when they have an operating system that makes backlights blink in order to control brightness, it also occurs because the response time of LED panels is relatively slow when compared to OLED. With faster response time and the absence of backlights, LG OLED TVs are flicker-free and more comfortable.

LG OLED panels are the first of their kind to be verified as discomfort glare free by UL. Discomfort glare occurs when there is a big difference between the illuminance of the surrounding environment and the luminance of a display. UL conducted tests using a glare evaluation method officially recognized by the International Commission on Illumination — they verified that OLED panels provide moderate luminance in all illuminance conditions.

At LG, we're rising to the challenge of creating more eco-minded processes throughout the product life cycle of our OLED panels. LG OLED TVs have self-lit pixels, eliminating the need for backlights. This saves resources as there are fewer components. It means fewer toxic substances and less indoor air pollution when watching at home. It also reduces waste and improves the recycling rate at the end of the product life cycle. Throughout production, usage, and disposal, LG OLED TVs are more eco-minded every step of the way.

The structures of LED and LG OLED panels might surprise you. LED TVs use backlights, and multiple other layers like a fluorescent sheet and combined optical sheet to create an image. But LG OLED panels emit light by themselves. As a result, they don't need backlights, any extra layers, or the parts that hold those layers together. So, by choosing to use OLED panels, you're helping contribute to environmental protection.

LG's efforts to make OLED better for you and the environment have been officially recognized. Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), a Swiss multinational testing agency, have certified certain LG OLED TV sets and LG OLED panels as Eco Products for a number of reasons. Both the TV sets and panels are Cadmium free, and are more efficiently produced with fewer parts and a higher recycling rate than LED TVs. Additionally, the panels were certified because they are Indium Phosphide free. They also don't use plastic or flame retardant, so have lower manufacturing chemical emissions.

LG is continuing to prove that it’s a global leader in the electronics market by rising to the environmental and societal challenges associated with product lifecycles, working conditions, manufacturing processes, and recycling. Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) are the main factors in measuring a company’s sustainability and societal impact. ESG ratings are acquired based on comprehensive annual evaluations of sustainability practices and performance. Based on various leading ESG ratings, LG is a Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) Industry Leader for the ninth consecutive year, a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index Series, and has also received top ratings from Ecovadis and MSCI.