Seriously, who wants it? Who needs it?A 150-inch high-definiton plasma TV unveiled by Panasonic is the world's largest to date, the Japanese consumer electronics company claimed Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
The plasma panel features an 8.84 million pixel image resolution. Its screen is the equivalent of nine 50-inch sets, with an effective viewing area of 11 feet, the company said. It's a step up from Panasonic's 103-inch version, which cost $70,000 when it launched. The company did not say in a news release how much the 150-inch panel will cost.
When will people wake up to the mad scramble for spurious technological "advance" for what it is? It's simply symptomatic of a wider malaise you can yawn at, if you like - the inability of people to be satisfied.
And as for television itself being developed - why? The shows are dire and the noise - just pollution. Yet the MTV field raises the need for higher-fi then something else, then something else and so on.
"Progress, you stick-in-the-mud," I hear you mutter.
"Really?" I reply.
We are right on track for Ray Bradbury's parlor TV-walls.
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Or Max Headroom perhaps.
ReplyDeleteSo far, this is the most pointless thing I've seen all day and it's only half 11.
ReplyDeleteDo people have nothing better to spend money on?
I agree. I think that's a mostrosity. Most people would have to buy a bigger house to accommodate it. Whatever for?
ReplyDeleteI want one...
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Verlin, if you weren't a guy, I could fall in love with you.
ReplyDeleteWould this love constitute a new big screen tv :)
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't fit in my living room.
ReplyDeleteSeriously.