LG's outrageous direct-view LED TV tops out at 335 inches, $1.7 million:
[...] Direct View LED is a refreshingly self-explanatory name. You're directly viewing LEDs. It sounds similar to MicroLED, although when we asked whether DVLED actually is MicroLED, LG's reply was somewhat vague (we're seeking clarification and we'll update this article when we get it).
Generally "micro" LEDs are in the range of 0.1mm, often smaller. All LG is discussing is the pixel pitch, which is the distance from the center of one pixel to the next, which includes the size of the pixel but also the space between. The smallest version of LG's DVLED has a pixel pitch of 0.9mm. There are also models with 1.2mm and 1.5mm pixel pitches. So they're small, that's for sure, but perhaps not small enough to qualify as MicroLED.
Why these numbers are important is because of a counterintuitive characteristic of all direct-view LED tech: There's a lower limit to sizes of direct view LED displays. There's a limit to how close they can currently get the pixels, and this is true with LG's DVLED, as well as Samsung and Sony's tech. That's the reason these TVs are all wall-size, at least for now.
The smallest LG DVLED Home Cinema Display is 108 inches diagonally. With a 1.2mm pixel pitch, this means HD resolution, or "2K" as LG calls it. Interestingly, LG includes BTU specs, just like heaters and air conditioners. Remember, LEDs create heat as well as light, just in a better ratio than, say, incandescent bulbs. So in this case, they spec the 108-inch at putting out 6,288 BTUs per hour. So yeah, worst case is you can use one as a space heater if you get chilly while sleeping on your piles of money.
If 4K is more your thing, sizes range from 163 to 393 inches. You can also do dual 2K or dual 4K versions, which have a 32:9 aspect ratio for watching two or more shows side-by-side. I would absolutely use this to watch TV on one side of the screen and play a game on the other.
The 8K version, for a cool $1.7 million, is 325 inches diagonally. It weighs in at exactly one Mazda Miata. It puts out a toasty 56,592 BTUs [...]
NB: 1 meter = 39.34 inches.
(Score: 1) by noirmaru on Thursday September 16 2021, @12:35PM (11 children)
335inches is such a ridiculous measurement! better to say 1/10 the length of a football field
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @12:47PM (5 children)
can we have that in Libraries of Congress please
(Score: 4, Funny) by janrinok on Thursday September 16 2021, @12:53PM (4 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @01:30PM (1 child)
Temperature, 451 degrees Farenheit
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday September 16 2021, @01:35PM
What's that in Rankine?
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 16 2021, @03:39PM (1 child)
'Library of Congress' used to be a unit of measurement of computer storage space back in the Groklaw days.
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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday September 16 2021, @05:16PM
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday September 16 2021, @01:35PM (1 child)
Twenty eight feet, or 8 1/2 meters. It wouldn't fit in my living room. I question that price, though. Local movie theaters have multiple screens far larger. At millions per screen, how could they recoup their investments?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @01:43PM
Do they have direct-view LED screens?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 16 2021, @03:41PM
I must strongly object that their unit of measurement (335 inches) was not metric like the sane parts of the planet are using. They stated it in inches to cater to us crazies.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @11:32PM
And I love the decimal inches at the end, trying to define the SI unit of 1 metre in inches: 39.34. No, no, no, its got be be 39 and 47/256ths". Anyway, US measurements have for decades been defined in SI, not the other way around.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday September 17 2021, @08:56PM
There is precedent [youtu.be] in this context, though.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday September 16 2021, @01:35PM (1 child)
This would be a very good purchase if you need an extra wall sized TV in the children's playroom to keep them away from the living room TV. Recommended!
Jeffry Dahmer gives it five thumbs up!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @02:06PM
Jeffry Dahmer... children's playroom ... pedophile.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @01:46PM (4 children)
They both seem to have individually lit pixels. I thought this was what OLED was? What are the advantages of OLED vs direct view LED and why?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @03:03PM (1 child)
OLEDs have what plants crave.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @05:12PM
OLEDs are healthier because they're organic ... so ... they don't use pesticides?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @03:57PM
Hey Boomer, I think what you mean is "those pixels are lit!"
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 16 2021, @04:58PM
It sounds like "direct-view LED" is LG's marketing name for microLED. Which would have several advantages over OLED.
But the problem is actually miniaturizing them (to make them "micro" and all) while keeping costs down.
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday September 16 2021, @03:00PM
Somewhere, a herd of wild consumertards is banging down doors trying to get one of these.
Obligatory: Does a larger modern TV do more to spy on you than smaller ones? Does it have to be replaced after two years, or more often? Does it require a smart phone in order to use it for no real reason?
Meh, wake me up when they have an over 9000 inch TV.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Thursday September 16 2021, @03:29PM (3 children)
What makes it "directly viewing"? Are there LED screens you "indirectly view"?
"Refreshingly self-explanatory" is putting it a bit strongly
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 16 2021, @03:45PM
There were once CRTs you would indirectly view. (No not 'critical race theory')
CRTs were bulky and were thus concealed down in the body of the video game console, and you viewed it through a diagonal mirror.
As for LEDs, you should be aware that ALL diodes can be light emitting -- at least once. The same goes for light emitting resistors too. I once did some research on this topic.
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(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16 2021, @05:23PM (1 child)
Yes, actually. Many (most?) displays advertised as LED screens are just LCD displays with LED backlights (or edgelights). So you view fairly traditional LCDs but the light passing through (or bouncing off?) the liquid crystals comes from a different type of source.
If I understand, with these "direct-view" LED TVs, there is no LCD, as colored LEDs make up the pixels themselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 18 2021, @10:51PM
You're modded as disagree, but I think you're correct.
The haters need to check out this link to a "stealth" LED monitor where someone removed the polarizing film from their monitor and replaced that with a pair of glasses from a 3-D theater where the films were replaced with linear polarizers both oriented the same way.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday September 16 2021, @06:59PM
Remember, this is the corporation that thought it was perfectly okay to spy on your internal network and exfiltrate the data.
It could come with a blowjob attachment and I would never.... well maybe...
You get my point though.
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