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Perhaps more than any other piece of consumer technology, TVs seem to be on a relentless march forward. Even as smartphones have begun to reach their limits of acceptable size and see diminishing returns as display resolutions push higher, TVs just keep getting bigger, sharper, and thinner. To drum up some hype for its CES showcase this year, LG just revealed a TV that pushes everything to the max, and its so thin that it can be rolled up like a poster.
The TV is just a concept, but it sure is wild. At 65 inches and a resolution of 4K, its of the ideal size and specs for many living rooms, but what LG really wants you to focus on is the fact that its basically a giant piece of electronic paper.
If youre seeing the TV when its deployed, you might not realize exactly what youre looking at. Its big and pretty, but whats with the giant, blocky base, right? That long, narrow box is actually the TVs home, and when its not in use it can be rolled back into that base unit and hidden from view.
But why would you want a big, rollable TV? LG does its best to make a case for it in its press release, suggesting that its a great space saver and a boon for its portability. For those of us who keep our TVs mounted to a wall or situated on a stand for the entirety of their lives, thats not exactly a huge selling point, but thats not to say the technology wont be useful in the future. The classic sci-fi prop of an electronic newspaper which stays constantly updated but can be folded up like paper might not be too far off.
http://bgr.com/2018/01/07/lg-rollable-tv-ces-2018/
underpants
(182,626 posts)Pretty cool
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)AS VEGAS Samsung Electronics said Sunday that it will unveil the world's first artificial intelligence (AI) powered 8K quantum dot light-emitting diode (QLED) TV at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018 which opens today (KST).
The high-end 85-inch TV comes with the company's AI-driven image and sound recovery technology. Samsung said it has collected and analyzed millions of video databases to self-convert low quality content to higher quality by recovering visual and audio effects in areas such as blurriness, brightness and background sound.
The company plans to launch additional lineups by using the technology for 8K QLED TVs of more than 65 inches, with the AI TVs available for sale in the latter half of the year, according to Samsung.
[link:https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2018/01/133_242042.html|]
Plus the now will offer...
[link:http://www.samsung.com/us/tv-upgrade/|]
doc03
(35,296 posts)telling us we will see the day that you can hang a TV on the wall like picture. He also said one little chip
will have hundreds of circuits on it. He was right.
Doodley
(9,048 posts)PSPS
(13,580 posts)OhZone
(3,212 posts)I don't trust them. My car pool friend had so many problems with his v10. And so did one of my coworkers.
I might buy a mid level LG, but I won't spend money for their premium.