CES 2008: Panasonic Conquers All With 150in TV January 09, 2008
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In the ultimate example of ‘mine is bigger than yours’, Panasonic saw off all TV rivals at the CES 2008 Show by presenting an enormous 150in plasma HDTV.
The giant telly, as you can see from the shot above, makes last year’s 103in Panasonic offering look like something you’d throw up in a kids room.
Even last year’s CES swinging dick TV, the 108in LCD TV from Sharp, has well and truly been kicked into touch. Panasonic’s president, Toshihiro Sakamoto, pointed out that the 150in Life Screen is the equivalent of nine 50in TVs stacked on one another.
“The 150-inch PDP delivers dynamic, overwhelming image quality with an 8.84m pixel resolution (2,160 x 4,096) - more than four times the 1080p HD specification (1,080 x 1,920). The prototype has a screen size equivalent to nine 50-inch PDPs with an effective viewing area of 11 ft (3.31 m) (W) x 6 1/4 ft (1.87 m) (H). With the enhanced PDP technologies Panasonic accumulated in the development of its 103-inch PDP, the 150-inch PDP provides stable and uniform images across the vast expanse of the screen and the same brightness as the 103-inch PDP. Featuring true-to-life colour reproduction capability and quick response to moving images, the ultra- large PDP renders clear, crisp, spectacular images unrivalled by any other.”
There’s no doubt that this is TV taken to ridiculous levels but you can be sure that footballers are already queuing up for one. After all, Panasonic sold more than 3,000 of the 103in sets.
All you need for this one is £50,000 and the ability to wait a few years. Jump for another shot.-Martin Lynch
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Comments
if you want an image that big, get a projector. much cheaper.
Right... and you can walk right in front of a projector with no problems! And if you're using a projector in a bright washed out room there's no problem at all! And everyone has the room to set up rear projection... because it only takes an extra 15-20 feet behind the screen!
Moron.
As opposed to tearing down a wall in your house to get this thing indoors you mean? Or the extra 45k required to pay for it?
soz, but dyu want to pay a ridiculous amount for this. no need to flame me about it, i was just making a point that you can get a cheap solution to this stupid tv.