Samsung and LG often match their product intros but last week, via Engadget, the 2 announced cheaper options on its UltraHD TV sets.
Samsung is dropping the price on its new 55-inch curved OLED by 34 percent, from 15 million won ($13,500) to 9.9 million ($8,910).
For LG, the new LA9650 variant of its 65-inch UHDTV drops to 8.9 million won ($8,010) compared to 10.9 million ($9,810) for the original LA9700, while the 55-inch is 5.9 million won ($5,310) compared to 7.4 million ($6,660). It was reported that these new models give up a few creature comforts like the bottom-mounted motorized 4.1 speaker and camera, but keep the pixel count along with fixed 2.1 speakers and 16GB of memory for DVR functions.
The new models are expected to make their US debut on October 23, 2013.
