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Samsung's Huge MicroLED TVs Let You Watch Four Things at Once (cnet.com) 56

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Samsung's MicroLED televisions like The Wall are always some of the biggest products at CES -- literally. Last year's version was a 292-inch monster composed of individual modules that required custom installation and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The 2021 version is a MicroLED TV in fixed sizes of 110, 99 and 88 inches that costs a bit less, but is still ridiculously expensive. Launched in Korea last month, the 110-inch MicroLED costs 170 million won, or around $156,000 according to ZDNet -- the same as a Bentley Bentayga. On Tuesday at its First Look event ahead of CES, the company announced two more sizes, 99 and 88 inches, all three with 4K resolution. Samsung says the TVs will arrive in other markets later this year. For comparison's sake, Samsung's puny 98-inch 8K TV costs $60,000, but it uses standard LCD-based QLED display technology, not MicroLED. [...] The 110-inch MicroLED TV is basically the size of four 55-inch TVs stuck together, and a feature called MultiView lets you connect multiple devices simultaneously and watch up to four things at once. Lucky owners can "enjoy watching news, movies and other apps simultaneously on one screen -- so they can keep up with multiple sports at once, or stream a walkthrough while playing a video game, all in stunning quality and size," according to the release. MultiView is also available on the smaller 99- and 88-inch versions.
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  • Their purpose is ... (Score:3)

    by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 ) on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:32AM (#60932860)

    ... to make you believe their regular models are not a total rip-off of mostly profit with a slight dash of employee payment in there.

    • I remember seeing a 42" (+/-) flatscreen TV in a high end AV store for $20,000. I was awed at both the technology and the price.

      Now you can buy one at Walmart for $250.

      • Yeah I enjoy cynicism as much as the next slashdotter, but are TV's a ripoff? They're almost the cheapest thing you can buy in a box that big.

  • They will use it to surround the main display (Score:3)

    by xack ( 5304745 ) on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:36AM (#60932884)
    With ads, “ow my balls” style.
  • Samsung can show off its humongous MicroLED at shows and such, but LG is selling OLED tv's by the boatload to customers and Samsung isn't.

    Even its ploy to confuse customers with the QLED name (looks like OLED but is really just an LED-LCD) hasn't worked out the way they planned. LG is outselling Samsung at least 2 to 1 on high-end TV's.

    • Samsung can show off its humongous MicroLED at shows and such, but LG is selling OLED tv's by the boatload to customers and Samsung isn't.

      It's a $150,000 TV.

      To say the audience is limited, is putting it mildly. No one, is selling a "boatload" of these things.

      • Right, its just a marketing stunt. You can go into any store that sells TVs today and buy an LG OLED screen.

        Samsung completely failed this generation by not offering an OLED screen.

  • As if misinformation and disinformation overload is not over the top with only one screen and shift-tab already.

    • One good use of the very high density displays is to have a good 3D without any glasses. Many years ago on one of the tech exhibitions I've seen the 3D technology based on putting a special micro-lens filter on top of a traditional LCD to achieve 3D, the result was quite compelling and I like it the most of all the available ones. With this technology the higher resolution the more 3D angle viewing points one gets.

      Agree about the misinformation, but that is not due to TVs, but integrity of journalists - or

    • This isn't really meant for normal consumers. It's for businesses with conference and event rooms with deep pockets.

      But it's also a sales tactic - you show off with things most people can only dream off to create attention, and then you direct the attention to the mass market products that are boring and look all the same, but are also the bred and butter for your business. It's a tactic as old as the consumer shows themselves.

  • Back to the Future already did it.

    https://backtothefuture.fandom... [fandom.com]

  • Hardware multi-viewers that can take multiple sources and scale and display them have existed for years and years in the AV space. You can find them from dozens of vendors.

    Neither is the technology of direct-view LED displays, which have also existed for decades and chances are most of us pass a billboard with it on every major highway. The fact that the pixels are small enough to used as a home display while neat is not some revolution that Samsung is selling but a natural progression of the technology.

    • I had a Sony projector TV 15 years ago that could show 16 channels at once. And since I had only an antenna (no cable) I could literally watch ALL THE TV.

    • MicroLED is 0.1mm or smaller [semiengineering.com].

      • Well then this does not meet that definition, the last "The Wall" iteration was 0.84mm pitch, I have not seen the pitch on this new model but I have doubts they were able to bring it anywhere close to 0.1mm in a generation.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

      Neither is the technology of direct-view LED displays, which have also existed for decades and chances are most of us pass a billboard with it on every major highway. The fact that the pixels are small enough to used as a home display while neat is not some revolution that Samsung is selling but a natural progression of the technology. 0.8mm pixel pitch LED has been available for some years now, it's just getting cheaper.

      MicroLEDs are following in the footsteps of OLEDs, which are really teeny tiny LEDs wit

  • I hope I get it before Frank does.

  • That's good, my sensory input had dropped to such dangerous lows I was considering using drugs.

  • ... to watch 4 things at once? I only have 2, will that be enough?

  • The only use case I see (Score:4, Insightful)

    by UnknowingFool ( 672806 ) on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:23AM (#60933150)
    Is sports bars to show more multiple games at once or one really large display for 1 game. Of course it would be way cheaper to get 4 TVs and make that work.

  • You aren't watching any seriously!

  • I've seen these things at tradeshows and they are cool. They are literally just LEDs grouped together like a old (low resolution) jumbotron type thing. Not LED backlit, but just straight up tiny LEDs. Some of them are flexible as well for curved walls.

    BUT for the price, a commercial 8K projector with a video processor that can split up feeds or do one big picture would be cheaper. You can get them for like 50-70k. Or even a video wall and processor with several bezel-less 4k screens would be also bright an

  • For that price... (Score:3)

    by QuietLagoon ( 813062 ) on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:36AM (#60933208)
    ... I would hope that Samsung at least turns off the privacy-busting data slurping.

  • In the 1960s there were 3 major networks, Kennedy had an office with 3 TVs so he could watch all 3 newscasts if there was some important breaking news.

    These days, what do I need to watch 4 things at a time for? Seems like all there is on TV is shopping channels, channels to shop on, and more shopping channels.

    Oh wait, nevermind.

  • Even a 13" Sony Trinitron from 1991 can do that. mpv doesn't care how many windows you have open. And like everything else which is done right, it's up to the user to decide whether it's good enough.

  • I can't wait for their nanoLED TV which will be the size of a baseball field.

  • microLED, also known as micro-LED, mLED or ÂLED, is an emerging flat-panel display technology. microLED displays consist of arrays of microscopic LEDs forming the individual pixel elements. When compared with widespread LCD technology, microLED displays offer better contrast, response times, and energy efficiency.

    Along with OLEDs, microLEDs are primarily aimed at small, low-energy devices such as smartwatches and smartphones. OLED and microLED both offer greatly reduced energy requirements when compare

  • Err... Could you do the same thing just getting multiple TVs for a heckuva lot less money?

    A solution in search of a problem, maybe?

  • I would be more impressed by some TV or similar device that could display different content to different viewers - from the *full* screen.

    Probably by having each part of the screen sending different light signals for multiple directions. Kind of like how a lighthouse project white in some directions, red or green in others. But dynamically controlled, with several LED:s per pixel, and some quite advanced optics. With narrow enough beams, this could perhaps even be used for glassless 3D.

    Ideally with some software that could track the location of each viewer and calculate which sub-pixels need to transmit to reach them, even if viewers changed position. Without said tracking sensors used for any other purpose - no analyzing, no ad tracking, no DRM ...

    I wonder which part is most wishful thinking - the technology or that Samsung could skip abusing it for privacy violations?

    • This has been demo'd fairly recently. A display that has different images in different angles with high angular resolution. The proposed application was airport displays that could show you your flight information full-screen and show everyone else their flight information at the same time, on the full screen. I think they could beam different images to like a dozen people at a time, no glasses required. It required facial recognition to track you around and beam the right image your direction, so of course
  • It is a special straw. It has one out put end and four input ends. You can simultaneously enjoy a frappuchino, a jumba juice, jasmine tea AND the sticky sugar syrup Indian restaurants serve their gulab jamoons with.

    Of course the product sucks. But that is the point. Suck four beverages at the same time. Very handy to watch four video feeds at the same time.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by cusco ( 717999 )

      Professional security systems have been feeding as many as 48 feeds for most of three decades, even the nasty 9" diagonal B&W on the really old analog matrix systems would support 4 feeds at a time.

  • It was called Picture in picture.

  • is not going to confuse my wife any more than our current TV remote. She makes me control it already.

    Are we going to evolve more eyes to keep up with crap?

  • Some years ago, my wife and I went out to an appliance store to buy a clothes washing machine. The appliance salesman we met showed us a high-capacity unit, and said to us, "This one is so big you can wash two loads at once!" She and I looked at each other for a moment, and broke out laughing.

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