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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday August 16 2020, @04:29PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Sunday August 16 2020, @04:29PM (#1037516)

    Yes, exactly. This is what I thought when I looked at the photos. This is absolutely useless for normal TV/movie watching, but there's a lot of other things this would be nice for. Whether it'll become cheap enough to actually be used for those things, I don't know. I could see this being used for museum exhibits, advertising, and I'm sure there's lots of things that haven't even been thought of. But as a replacement for a normal TV, it's useless.

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