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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday August 16 2020, @10:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the seeing-right-through-it dept.

Is Xiaomi's transparent TV the biggest design fail ever? (archive)

Many strange things have happened in 2020, so it's probably the perfect year for Chinese tech company Xiaomi to announce the world's first completely transparent TV. And if you're wondering that the point of it is, we're here to tell you that you're not alone.

Available in China from from 16 August, the snappily named Xiaomi Mi TV LUX OLED Transparent Edition will cost ¥49,999 ($7,200/£5,500), offering "an ultra-immersive viewing experience" in which "images seem to be suspended in the air". That is, we assume, as long as your TV isn't positioned against a wall.

[...] In a blog post on its website (adorned with several images of women in extravagant ballgowns standing behind transparent TVs, because why not?), Xiaomi calls the TV "a new way to consume visual content previously only seen in science fiction films". Unlike traditional TVs, the Mi TV LUX Transparent Edition "creatively embeds all the processing units in its base stand". The TV sports a 55-inch OLED panel with a 120Hz refresh rate and 150000:1 static contrast ratio.

Get your transparent APNGs ready.

Also at The Verge.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Sunday August 16 2020, @03:27PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday August 16 2020, @03:27PM (#1037495)

    Exactly... and it doesn't take too much creativity to put a pane of switchable glass behind it (switchable between transparent and black/opaque).

    Our homes have had progressively more and more windows as we've moved, so it must be a preference thing, coupled with a IDGAF about the heating/cooling efficiency thing... Being able to switch from outside view to opaque to TV would be awesome, and I'm assuming if there's any practicality in this idea that - like every other display tech before it - it will be dropping in price by huge multiples over the coming decade.

    Instead, with today's tech, we presently have two big TVs on opaque walls each currently showing the view from a different 4K camera mounted outside the house. One unexpected cool thing, I recently installed a camera with a "one way mic" on a post out in the middle of the trees - piping the birdsounds from the yard into the house surround sound system is a really nice thing.

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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday August 16 2020, @04:27PM (1 child)

    by RamiK (1813) on Sunday August 16 2020, @04:27PM (#1037514)

    it will be dropping in price by huge multiples over the coming decade.

    Yeah I think the early adopters will be skyline penthouses and beach-side properties where even popup cabinets can block those huge ass windows so it's priced about where it should be right about now.

    Hopefully in a decade we'll see these becoming common for kitchens and such. That would be nice.

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    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @05:01PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @05:01PM (#1037531)

      Put an Apple logo on it and triple the price.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @06:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @06:23PM (#1037986)

    Not just a single "paint it black" switch, put a mono LCD behind it for a full alpha channel. Then you can paint in opaque overlays or even translucent ones. Now you get a huge window that can popup a small video as needed, and on command (when something interesting happens) expand up to the whole window. Small info notification boxes floating by, etc. Adding a touch controller is of course a no brainer.