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| AndyC_772:
Also bear in mind that physical room layout is an issue, for any room that's not a dedicated theatre. We have a 55" OLED screen, which sits on its stand in a bay window. A bigger display wouldn't physically fit the space. For movies, though, we also have a 120" projection screen mounted to the ceiling, which can be dropped down for the duration of a film, and retracted otherwise. It practically divides the room in two; there's no way we'd want a fixed screen of that size all the time, but it does give a genuinely cinematic experience when needed. I'm waiting for the industry to come up with the 'projector-less screen' - a large format OLED (or whatever) panel printed onto a flexible substrate, that can be deployed when needed and rolled up out of the way otherwise. We've already seen the phone industry start to experiment with smaller flexible screens, so it's not as though it's a technology that's completely in the realms of science fiction. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on February 12, 2022, 07:51:09 am ---I'm waiting for the industry to come up with the 'projector-less screen' - a large format OLED (or whatever) panel printed onto a flexible substrate, that can be deployed when needed and rolled up out of the way otherwise. --- End quote --- LG showed off rollable OLED screens a while ago. Oddly, they rolled up from a box in the table. I would have through the market would really be for ones rolling down from above - i.e. like a projector screen coming down from the ceiling when needed. |
| PlainName:
Maybe the thinking was that a box on a table is easily moved and plugged in (and stored). OOB experience is high. Fixing to a ceiling requires at least a handyman, probably an electrician, etc. OOB experience is s l o w. |
| tom66:
Some other interesting tech that didn't take off - rollable plasma screens. Yes, you read that right... though I notice they were very careful to limit the amount of flex on the actual panel. |
| bw2341:
https://displaysolutions.samsung.com/pdf/datasheet/3902/The_Wall_Datasheet_200315_WEB.pdf .pdf]https://www.lg.com/global/business/download/resources/CT00000221/LG%20MAGNIT_Datasheet(preview)_Micro%20LED_210916[20210916_172002].pdf https://pro.sony/ue_US/products/led-video-walls Just daydreaming a bit and reading up on MicroLED displays. It looks like what the TV companies are bringing to the market are finer pitch displays and higher contrast. I wonder where that leaves the legacy videowall companies that seem to be smaller and regionally focused. They were probably importing generic Chinese LED matrix panels to make their videowalls. I tried to look up the contrast specifications for LG's OLED displays to compare and came up with a bunch of infinite contrast nonsense. (Something divided by zero equals infinity!) The standard way to measure might be in a totally dark environment, but that's not very useful. We're not going to be sitting in the dark wearing black pants, sweater and balaclava. Samsung specifies the contrast of The Wall at 30000:1 with 10 lux illumination. A quick search found that 10 lux is the brightness at twilight. So I guess that is a bit darker that a typical living room. Still that gives a number for comparison. LG claims that their MAGNIT display is 150000:1 at 10 lux. It would be fun to hold up an LG panel next to a Samsung to see what a claim of 5 times blacker looks like. From the videowall at my Apple Store, an unlit panel looks as dark as matte black wall paint. It isn't a pure deep black like a glossy piano or a car. The Apple Store displays are probably commercial grade displays at a few thousand to one contrast ratio. Sony's LED video walls all claim "More than 1,000,000:1", even the high-brightness models that have a washed out product photo compared the high-contrast models. Thanks for nothing Sony! |
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