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IT’S EITHER A coincidence or bad timing on someone’s part, but both Samsung and LG announced they will be releasing 105-inch HD TVs on the same day.
Not only are both HD TVs the same size, both companies claim that it’s the largest curved TV ever made. Both have an 11 million pixel screen resolution, and a 21:9 ratio screen for enjoying TV, movies and gaming.
Here’s how the two TVs will look.
(Image: LG Newsroom)
(Image: Samsung)
LG’s TV allows for information to be displayed on the side without covering up what you’re watching. Samsung’s model includes what it calls the “Quadmatic Picture Engine,” which displays all content in ultra-high definition regardless of its source.
Neither Samsung or LG has revealed how much their TVs will cost, but considering that LG’s 84-inch HD TV costs €20,000, chances are you’ll need some very deep pockets before you can afford either one.
Both will be revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014 in Las Vegas at the beginning of January.
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105 inches and curved. I already possess something quite similar.
A dead body???
It is a very nice surfboard!
where did you buy your turkey?
Coming soon to a social welfare supported council house near you!
Wow, that must weigh well over 100 courics. Watch out Bono and Randy Marsh, there’s a new kid in town.
Your ego perhsps
Certainly not your spelling
Great. If I was on the dole I would get one. Too busy to watch it otherwise.
Excellent comment!
TheJournal.ie readers can all share in your pride of labour (while of course noting that you have not said that you earn enough to but 105″ inch TV) and can all puzzle over how you think those on the dole can afford one.
* buy a
Douche bag
Driving through a council estate one the first things ull notice is the massive TV’s
Priorities!
A priority perhaps if you’re casing the houses for a burglary. Also nice to see that you understand how the residents should spend their money better than they do.
Paul. The people in these areas are there by their own poor decisions. Blowing the budget on Nike gear, Subaru impretzas and wall sized tvs instead of their children’s education for example.
Of course David.
They chose to be there.
*imprezas
Go Harvey Norman gooo
Not only are both HD TVs the same size, both companies claim that it’s the largest curved TV ever made. Both have an 11 million pixel screen resolution, and a 21:9 ratio screen for enjoying TV, movies and gaming.
And you can watch the same rubbish TV on both
Both made in South Korea too.
I believe.
Who in their right mind would sit in front of a yolk like that? One eye would go east and one west…
Leave him alone, he’s obviously on about his cock
Perhaps, but your the one thinking about it.
That’s my stocking filler problem sorted …
You must have big stockings
Made for those paying their wives €100 million to iron their shirts.
Taxpayers go to work i NEED oneeeee
EVERYONE is a taxpayer, including those on the dole!! Just bear in mind that for a lot of folk being unemployed is not their fault.
Please stop tarring those who are unemployed and have paid into the system with the same brush as those who never have.
Stands to reason if your long term unemployed you spend a lot of time in front of the tv might as well have a decent tv,probes can’t afford pub or other social activitys so at least if there watching there plasma tv they might not be out mugging people
Im tempted to buy into the curved tv style as it looks great. But I just cant tell wether its another fad that will be pushed out. The 3D was a big deal a year or two ago and now the major TV networks like Sky are getting rid of the 3D stations, and 3D viewing is not popping up on all new TVs anymore.
Everytime you invest in a new Tv another one comes along within a year or they go back on the technology added to the one you buy. Makes it hard to to decide whats the best to go with.
3D will never take off once you have to wear stupid glasses.
Tv companies and Hollywood have been trying to push 3d for the past 20 years. Hopefully they now have a clear idea people just dont like it.
3d has its uses. Say your watching an action movie I agree 3d is more distracting than anything. But say for animated movies its fantastic and there has been some great movies made in 3d from final destination 5 to gravity. But only certain types of movies are good in 3d. As for glasses fair enough but they are working on prism pixels which separate light to your eye eliminating 3d glasses.
Curved tv will take off same as wide screen. But just give the tech a year or so. Prices of these things free fall. Hell my tv was 3.500 5yrs ago and not outclasses and worth few hundred at push. I want a new 4h tv so I can try out my new titan gpu for my pc.
I was listening up to the point you said Final Destination 5 was a great movie
3D is astonishingly good with the animated films from pixar and co. Watched finding nemo and despicable me 2 recently on a passive 3D tele and the effect was simply outstanding.
Check out samsungs evolution kit
So back to the old style curved screen we had as children
Samsung, Sony, LG, Panasonic, whatever. They’re all exactly the same box of electronics behind the label. These big brands don’t manufacture anything themselves, they all source the same stuff from the same hidden sweatshop with a couple of hundred employees who every day contemplate throwing themselves out an upstairs window because they’re so exploited. Think Foxconn and the like. So there.
Actually their are 2 companies that make all TV panels…
A Tesco cheap tv uses the same screen panel as a Sony bravia
That’s patently untrue. Not arsed explaining why. And to the other reply- it’s not so clear cut. Those panels only go to other manufacturing after Sony don’t use them and there’s surplus stock / tooling.
€30,000. Sod that. I’m selling 2×52 inch tv’s and a roll of cello tape for 20,000 for anyone interested!! Save yourself a pretty penny or 2.
This is the size of 4 52″ TVs (give or take an inch)
Kim Jong loves his Samsung
lol “IT’S EITHER A coincidence or bad timing”
No. Its because you see, we have one brand name who just parasites off another.
Hate Samsung. Hate Parasites. Hate Thieves. Hate Plagiarists. Out.
Samsung design and build, amongst other components, the flat-panel displays and internal electronics which are used by other TV manufacturers. They’re far from parasites or plagiarists when it comes to product design.
Likely that Samsung designed/produced the screen and are happy for LG to sell it as it helps amortise production tooling costs in a very small market.
Happens all the time…………engines in cars, chips in computers and ‘phones, components in domestic appliances etc etc.
I used to have a curved TV. It was called a cathode ray tube. Why would I want another. Flat is better, this is curving because then can rather than any particular use.
You used to have a convex CRT tv , as we all did . The first advance was FST ( flatter , squarer , tube ) CRT’s which appeared better at the edges as they were not curving in the opposite direction to the edges of the eyeball. Next we had truly flat panels become possible with plasma , LCD and LED.
So the new advance is a concave screen that follows the curvature of the eye . In time will become standard , as costs fall
Both are the same company
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