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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: 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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