Your mother might have told you to sit too near the TV, but LG Philips is positively encouraging it. The company is to unveil the world's largest multi-touch LCD displays. 

Launching at the CES show in Las Vegas next week, the 52-inch panels are claimed by the company to be one of the most responsive, able to recognize input from either a touch of a finger or more precise writing instruments. It uses an infrared image sensor that gives it the ability to recognize two separate touch points as well as gestures. It boasts some of the industry's highest specifications, with a 90 Hz touch response time, 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution and a light transmission rate of 95 to 100 per cent.

The company is also touting 47-inch Triple View LCD that features Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution and can reproduce 1.07 billion colours. By splitting the light from the panel into separate paths, it is able to show three completely different images to people standing at different angles relative to the display.

It will also show off an 84-inch LCD multi-touch model created by conjoining four 42-inch panels in a two-by-two array. This acts as a single enormous display with multi-touch capabilities across its entire surface. A screen bezel width of only 15mm, which is 40 per cent smaller than the average bezel. The display also has Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution, an omni-directional 180-degree viewing angle and impressive 500 cd/m2 brightness. 

As reported by Absolute Gadget, larger 60-inch televisions are expected to become the norm by 2015.