So after all these years of making TVs thinner, now they’re
curved to make them thick again?
The screen itself is still very thin. I guess that's something.
So this week brings us the annual 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in sunny Las Vegas. It's a bit of a party for nerds as giant tech companies and upstarts alike unveil what they promise to be the next great thing in electronic entertainment and productivity.
Sure, the big announcement a couple years ago was 3D TVs and that flopped horribly, but you have to give them points for trying.
Anyway, there doesn't appear to be much in the way of revolutionary innovation this year, as the biggest themes coming out of the show are new TVs. They're no longer 3D, but they're bigger than before, they have more pixels than before, have screens that are more curved than before. That's about it. Even Michael Bay Can't Explain Why It's Better.
What I don't understand is the fact that we've spent so long getting TVs that are thin so we can hang them on the wall and they don't take up space anymore, and now we need to curve the screen inward so the edges stick out away from the wall to take up space again. From a form factor point of view, we're now officially going backwards. I guess all that's important is that a new TV is out, and I'm supposed to buy one. All it costs is...uhm...how much?
70 Thousand dollars.
Dear Lord, you've got to be kidding me. Forget it.
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