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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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by corey on Sunday August 16 2020, @10:38PM (1 child)
My perception of this is that Xiaomi are in a tech race with other internationals like Samsung and LG, and the Chinese govt are keen on this too, probably supporting it.
It gives them legitimacy and trust in leading new technology and although the practical uses are debatable, as has been done here, this is all about 'Hey look at us, we're leaders in tech'. This is important to the Chinese govt who want the world buying Chinese tech, not Samsung or LG.
Makes me wonder how the Chinese got OLED working when even Samsung was struggling with their tech, was it called Quantum Dot or something a few years ago, with their market leading position and huge budgets. Actually, I don't wonder; China has a 5th gen jet with stealth technology and they arrived at it within a decade coming from old crap tech 3rd and maybe 3.9gen jets. I recall back in about 2013 or so, it came out in the media that 200GB of F35 data was stolen by cyber attackers, now we're seeing the fruit borne. So the TV thing is likely the same.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday August 17 2020, @04:26PM
Quantum Dot technology is still what they call it, they brand it as QLED on their TVs. It's still not taking full advantage of the "Nano-crystal display" technology that it's based on. The idea is that each dot provides its' own light, as opposed to the backlight that the current generation of the tech still relies on. Then again, it's probably cheaper and why OLED is much more expensive than Samsung's QLED displays.
https://www.electronichouse.com/smart-tv/understanding-new-tv-tech-oled-tv-nano-crystals-quantum-dot-means/ [electronichouse.com]
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