{"id":253679,"date":"2018-08-28T12:03:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T16:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=253679"},"modified":"2020-08-09T12:07:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T16:07:22","slug":"samsungs-absurd-146-inch-tv-is-an-entire-wall-hence-its-name-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/samsungs-absurd-146-inch-tv-is-an-entire-wall-hence-its-name-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s absurd 146-inch TV is an entire wall \u2014 hence its name, \u2018The Wall\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAbsurd\u201d? This journalist is the only \u201cabsurd\u201d one. I want a TV like that ASAP! I hope this \u201cjournalist\u201d enjoys his small-screen black and white TV\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Unless you own a movie theater, perhaps? But you probably don’t.<\/p>\n

This hulking 146-inch TV isn’t just huge \u2014 it’s also sporting a fancy display technology known as microLED, which Samsung says is at the heart of “the screen of the future.”<\/p>\n

So what’s the big deal? Here’s what we know.<\/p>\n

Samsung isn’t calling this thing “The Wall” for nothing. At 146 inches, it’s more than double the size of most home sets. As someone who recently purchased a 55-inch TV, I have a hard time fathoming how much larger a 146-inch one is.<\/p>\n

The image above, released by Samsung, doesn’t do the size of this screen justice. It’s literally a whole wall.<\/p>\n

“Modular microLED” sounds like a bunch of nonsense jargon, right? It’s pretty much exactly that. Here’s a simple breakdown of these new buzzwords.<\/p>\n

MicroLED, in the case of this TV, means “it is a self-emitting TV with micrometer-scale LEDs \u2014 which are much smaller than current LEDs, and serve as their own source of light,” Samsung says.<\/p>\n

What that means for the average human is that the TV doesn’t need a backlight.<\/p>\n

Modular\u00a0means that anyone buying The Wall can customize it.<\/p>\n

“The screen can adapt to serve different purposes,” Samsung says, “such as creating a wall-size display for multiple spaces.”<\/p>\n

Put more simply, it means you could customize this set to be even larger (or smaller) than 146 inches, though the version Samsung is releasing this year is the 146-inch variety.<\/p>\n

Considering the size, the pedigree of the company behind it, and the new technology it’s using, The Wall is going to cost a lot of money. Like,\u00a0a lot\u00a0of money \u2014 think tens of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n

But that’s just our best guess. Samsung hasn’t provided an official price for The Wall, and there’s no launch date or window either. A press event scheduled for March is said to offer more details on the massive TV, though, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/samsung-wall-146-inch-tv-photos-2018-1?utm_content=bufferb6aca&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti#the-wall-has-no-price-or-a-release-date-just-yet-but-lets-not-kid-ourselves-this-thing-is-going-to-cost-a-ton-of-cash-3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: \u201cAbsurd\u201d? This journalist is the only \u201cabsurd\u201d one. I want a TV like that ASAP! I hope this \u201cjournalist\u201d enjoys his small-screen black and white TV\u2026  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":253680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}