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Transparent TVs are high on my list of problems I urgently don’t need solved. R&D team must be freebasing whatever modern sci-fi VFX designers are on.
by moribvndvs 2y ago
Transparent TVs are high on my list of problems I urgently don’t need solved. R&D team must be freebasing whatever modern sci-fi VFX designers are on.
- zaviermiller 2y agoWhen I was a child I was convinced the future would contain transparent monitors. I loved the way they looked in VGHS. The day I found out they can only get as dark as the surface behind them destroyed me...
- nightfly 2y agoAn LCD-like layer could solve that
- JKCalhoun 2y ago"...Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope." "I can hear something but I don't see anything." Luke squinted up at the twin suns. "3PO, help me get this little R2 unit inside where it's dark. Maybe I'll be able to see the hologram in there."
- somat 2y agoI have a transparent clock I inherited from the previous tenet, Looks great, completely unreadable on whatever surface I put it on. I suspect I will leave it for the next tenant. Honestly I am a bit impressed, I am not sure I could have designed a clock face that is simultaneously too dark on a dark background and too light on a light background.
- cchi_co 2y ago[dead]
- tlogan 2y agoThe issue I really want to see addressed is the development of TVs that perform well in bright rooms or outdoor environments. While the Samsung Terrace reportedly does a good job, its price is prohibitively high. Is creating such TVs a particularly difficult challenge?
- germinalphrase 2y agoYes. The sun is incredibly bright.
- blackoil 2y agoCurtains/blinds are cheap. DIY https://youtu.be/WlFVPnGEb8o https://youtu.be/WlFVPnGEb8o
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- Dylan16807 2y agoA typical TV is 300-400 nits, and 1000 in smaller regions gives you pretty good HDR. A light gray object in sunlight is above 10,000 nits. It's hard. A Terrace can do 1500+ nits, and it's about the best you can get for full-screen brightness, though for 50%-of-screen brightness rtings lists some TCL models as beating it and some several other models as being close.
- magic_hamster 2y agoE-ink products will do this better than light emitting screens.
- Dylan16807 2y agoNot if you want multiple frames per minute.
- jd3 2y agoI must be missing something, because the use case for transparent TV is completely different than an ordinary TV due to the lack of black contrast, no?
- doe_eyes 2y agoSounds like a market for premium "TV backdrop" accessories to improve viewing comfort.
- nkozyra 2y agoWe have a lot of pure black substance (and paint) but again this is solving a problem nobody really has. Perhaps combining a transparent display with a pure black gives better blacks for displays but until there's better color control this would result in a much worse television.
- doe_eyes 2y agoWhile backlit LCDs always had a bit of a problem on that front, normal OLED screens already offer true black.
- neuralRiot 2y ago> this is solving a problem nobody really has. Samsung and LG have the problem of how to to create the next desirable product.
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- rsynnott 2y agoThe TV industry is always looking for the next thing to make people upgrade. Remember 3D TV? Very much the metaverse of its era; a solution in search of a problem. Quietly largely forgotten about afterwards.
- cchi_co 2y agoI will fondly remember how my dad bought a 3D TV (I was still a kid then). Our whole family watched Avatar in those cool glasses.
- echoangle 2y agoMy family got a 3D TV too, we watched Avatar, and then never used it again. I wonder how many people share this exact scenario.
- ghaff 2y agoI'm not sure it was really a solution in search of a problem but it was a bit gimicky and there was very little content created to really take advantage of it. (Still have one--along with about five Blu-Ray titles that use it :-))
- mrandish 2y agoWhile transparent displays are potentially useful for certain applications like digital signage, art, etc, they have major shortcomings as televisions or home theater displays - and these issues aren't expected to be sufficiently fixed anytime in the foreseeable future. Non-transparent displays will continue to be substantially better and cheaper for media consumption. The media calling these "Transparent TVs" instead of "Transparent Displays" is inaccurate and doing a disservice to both their readers and the devices.
- NikkiA 2y agoBecause they go to internet forums and see endless number of people going 'omg, transparent TV is so sci-fi, why don't we have it', just like they did with the 3d fad 10 years ago.