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$90,000 103in HDTV
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Mon Apr 16, 2007 08:34 AM
from the just-a-little-excessive dept.
from the just-a-little-excessive dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Found this review of Panasonic's 103in plasma. Not only is the screen itself massive, but the price tag comes close to $100,000! I guess if you can afford a room big enough to house it, you can afford the TV. "
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Commercial Products (Score:4, Informative)
Pythagoras (Score:3, Informative)
At 2:1 aspect ratio this comes in right around 8' X 4'. Not for big events.
(a 103" diagonal is *very different from a 180)
rear projection (Score:5, Funny)
Re:rear projection (Score:5, Funny)
I mean, you could use the $70,000 saved to buy a handful of Blu-Ray(TM) DVD's!
Yeah, you could probably get one or two HD-DVDs and then get the change sued off you by the MPAA For watching them.
I gotta say I like it - not so much because it's big and HD, but because it's unwieldy and thief-proof. Just imagine the poor schmuck who tries to steal it. Score one for Panasonic finally making a common-thief-proof TV. If this baby goes missing you can track down all the professional riggers and crane operators and find it in no time!
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no speakers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:no speakers (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:no speakers (Score:5, Funny)
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Dead Pixel! (Score:5, Funny)
AAAARGH!
Re:Dead Pixel! (Score:4, Insightful)
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how about an affordable one instead. (Score:5, Insightful)
how about a bridge in the gap between teeny tiny (and way too expensive for that size), and "OMG XBOX HUEG" (and out of reach of the average person).
the "cheap" models at walmart start at 900 and go up from there, and if you actually want color fidelity youre looking at a minimum 1500.
how long have these flat tvs been on the market? i seem to remember them advertised 8 years ago, so where the heck are the AFFORDABLE ones!
They don't come down in price (Score:5, Funny)
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i'm looking forward to the day (Score:5, Interesting)
it really isn't far fetched nanotechnology, the requisite advances in semiconducting polymers means the concept is not that far off. since they already have electronic paper, liquid crystals displays are well established, and OLEDs are coming on the scene now, technologies getting close to the "paint your own tv" concept, chemically and technically at least, i really don't think this concept is that far off
think about it: at the factory where they make OLEDs/ liquid crystal displays/ electronic paper, there is a fabrication process. that fabrication process merely assembles the requisite pixels into a proper grid. someone, somewhere, will make this process automatic, like crystallization/ polymerization, so all you need is for it to "dry" after applying it to a flat surface
Re:i'm looking forward to the day (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:i'm looking forward to the day (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, and I want a moonbase too. 40 years later and all NASA has given me so far me is some Tang.
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Re:i'm looking forward to the day (Score:4, Funny)
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220Kg? (Score:4, Insightful)
Also, my 46" throws off a noticeable amount of heat. This unit might need some custom ventilation.
For the US-centric... (Score:5, Informative)
1) $90,000 is the price after currency conversion and VAT (UK's 17.5% "Sales tax"). Without VAT, the TV is $78,000 in a pure currency converted price.
2) This is only the price with a currency change. Some products don't fluctuate much, but many things are ridiculously expensive in the UK when compared against the same product in the US. Judging by the pricing on the UK Top Gear, for example, cars are often $10K-$15K more for the same product. Computers are a little more reasonable, but you can still find a huge difference. The 30GB iPod (US $250), for example, is $355 US dollars at today's rate.
It is refreshing to see a jumbo plasma TV that isn't a low-res, corporate boardroom model, though. I only wonder how much juice this thing sucks down.
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
Ob. Penny-Arcade (Score:4, Funny)
Not as big as Frank's... (Score:3, Funny)
It dwarfs the mighty redwoods and it towers over everyone
I still remember when that delivery truck came down our block
What a lucky guy, I hear he got the last one in stock
And the neighbors are just green
They say, That's the biggest screen we've ever seen!
It's Frank's 2000" TV (Frank's 2000" TV)
Everbody come and see(Frank's 2000" TV)
Frank's 2000" TV (Frank's 2000" TV)
( Weird Al Yankovic of course, http://www.whatarethelyrics.com/WEIRDALYANKOVIC/F
Re:Not as big as Frank's... (Score:4, Informative)
Quick math on Frank's TV: if it's 4:3, 2000 inch diagonal would be 1200 inches (100 feet) high. Widescreen 16:9 would be 720 inches, or 60 feet.
Basically, Frank's TV is the size of a drive-in theatre screen.
This post has been a public service of the Federal Useless Consumer Knowledge Statistics Department
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Replacement (Score:3, Funny)
Power Consumption (Score:4, Informative)
Japanese price (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Costs $0.41 Per Minute To Watch (Score:5, Funny)
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