LG's 100-inch LCD set for mass production
By Richard Lawler 
posted Nov 2nd 2006 11:26AM
posted Nov 2nd 2006 11:26AM
Stop trying to type faster, watch TV for hours, or organize the largest water balloon fight: there's now another way to get a Guinness world record holder in your home, as LG has just announced it is going to begin mass producing its record-setting 100-inch LCD. The 6-million pixel 1,920 x 1,080 display won't come cheap though -- while a final price has not been decided, the manufacturing costs alone are expected to be over $150,000 US. But anyway, how can we be satisfied with a 100-inch LCD HDTV featuring a 3,000:1 contrast ratio, 92% color gamut and 5ms refresh time when we know Mark Cuban is just going to come over and start bragging about his $70,000 103-inch 1080p plasma from Panasonic? While sneaking in and watching Oxygen Network until the logo burns in on his precious plasma would be nice, we'll probably just wait for the first price drop and save everyone some pain and suffering.
This does not make sense!! If I am in the market for such a big TV, it will be for a dedicated home theatre room. If I have a dedicated room, then why would I want to spend $100-$200k on it. I would rather buy a $10k Sony Ruby (or is it Pearl) project and a nice Stewart Screen and call it done.
There are better ways to spend your money!! and these devices are just bragging rights, nothing more. For public locations, I can understand, but for homes.. naah.
Just curious as to how 1920x1080 makes 6 million pixels? shouldn't that read 2 million?
because an LCD blows the crap out of a projector.
To you and me, these TVs are pointless, but for people who make $10 million + a year, whats a couple days work for a tv like this for their home? Celebrities spend more then that on a ring for their fingers, so is it hard to believe they would spend this money for an amazing TV?