Not mine, but I owned it while I was installing it! Reference quality 98" NEC built to order and carefully shipped from Japan. I wish that I could show you the room that I built around it. I went online, because I felt that number somewhat embellished: I see a lot of IT bravado in my line of work, sorry to say. The base model is 40,000.00US. Of course, this one has all of the farkles.
Just installed my 65,000.00 TV
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Roomie
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Agreed. Who the hell spends 65k on a tv? Seriously... what is that exciting to watch?
Agreed. Who the hell spends 65k on a tv? Seriously... what is that exciting to watch?
Wss/wsbk/moto gp/moto2/moto3.
If I **** money I'd have a $65k TV too.
Roomie
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You'd get ten times more use out of a supercar
Boots
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This. I have a 60 something inch samsung rear projection TV that used to be the **** back in the day and now they're ancient and worth nothing. Dont buy into new TV's at high prices because the newest tech is already done it's development.
Or it could be a dud. cough...3D TV's...
I remember the first flat panel TVs going for about $13K. An equivalent today would be a few hundred and have more stuff.
Chasem
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You need to realize that some peoples perspectives MAY be different than your own. To that person the $65,000 TV may be like you buying a $2000 high-end panel.
Hypothetically you make $40K / year, s/he would make $1.3M/yr in the example given.....Not completely outrageous.
Also I highly doubt a 98" 4k+ Panel is going to be crap in a few years.
*shrug*
Hypothetically you make $40K / year, s/he would make $1.3M/yr in the example given.....Not completely outrageous.
Also I highly doubt a 98" 4k+ Panel is going to be crap in a few years.
*shrug*
This one is a commercial unit for a television and web based production company. They use it for colour correction in whatever production programme they're making before they put it on TV or the web. To make a 98" picture of that quality that will last costs big bucks. Definitely not something you pick up at Best Buy. The sound system is a 2200 watt commercial Marantz 9 channel unit. The door to the room is made by a company in California and it's five digits to buy, plus install. I've built some nice stuff over the years but this one has been an eye opener.
vociferous
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shes not alone. there were a few years that my wife and i couldnt go see any movies. stupid 3d. im glad its going the way of the dodo
Boots
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They probably said this about 240p too... Lol
Everything is subject to the shifting tides of standards. Maybe one day, rights holders will decide that HDCP is no longer good enough and invent a new DRM scheme. Then at some point afterwards, the 4K content that your "old" TV can play dries up.
HDCP is irrelevant, you can strip it out. It will be interesting to see what happens with 4K. At the National Broadcasters conference this year the major players (Disney, Universal, 20th century fox) were asked when they would be finally releasing titles in 4K. Unanimously they said they have no plans, their money is on HDR (High Dynamic Range). Basically add a couple bits, get true blacks and much better whites. The post processing is (relatively) inexpensive compared to 4K.
Interestingly, most raw film is captured in 16-bit colour depth, so the information is there, but the displays could never get the contrast ratio required to make use it. Now with dual 3-chip DLP light engines and laser projection coming online (Dolby Cinema) they can finally make black legitimately black to the point your eye can't tell anymore. Primary motivation? Ticket sales are falling, dual IP + traditional distribution is costly and its much cheaper to distribute HDR than 4K. Only recently have they started to move to IP based work flows, its actually a fairly slow moving industry.
Most people don't realize that they've had 4K in theaters for the last 10 years or so. Its not actually new. It looks decent, but I was really hoping they would start generating 60Hz content. If not for movies, at least for sports. Traditional distribution systems are expensive to retrofit, hopefully IP based distribution will drive it and the studios change their mind based on consumer demand. Lots of 4K TV's, but very little production content today.
The challenge is the cost of indefinately storing and distributing up to 750 versions of the same movie.
Interestingly, most raw film is captured in 16-bit colour depth, so the information is there, but the displays could never get the contrast ratio required to make use it. Now with dual 3-chip DLP light engines and laser projection coming online (Dolby Cinema) they can finally make black legitimately black to the point your eye can't tell anymore. Primary motivation? Ticket sales are falling, dual IP + traditional distribution is costly and its much cheaper to distribute HDR than 4K. Only recently have they started to move to IP based work flows, its actually a fairly slow moving industry.
Most people don't realize that they've had 4K in theaters for the last 10 years or so. Its not actually new. It looks decent, but I was really hoping they would start generating 60Hz content. If not for movies, at least for sports. Traditional distribution systems are expensive to retrofit, hopefully IP based distribution will drive it and the studios change their mind based on consumer demand. Lots of 4K TV's, but very little production content today.
The challenge is the cost of indefinately storing and distributing up to 750 versions of the same movie.
Chasem
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I said it wouldn't be outdated in a couple years... Look how long we have been stuck on 1080P? (Not necessarily stuck, just the mass of people using it)
You missed the point - if HDCP 2.2 is defeatable, all the more reason why they would want to replace it. DRM is not going away
How about this TV? some of the comments are great. Buy 3 for surround vision
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN105S9-Curved-105-Inch-Ultra/dp/B00L403O8U
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN105S9-Curved-105-Inch-Ultra/dp/B00L403O8U
