Samsung's 40-inch LCD is world's thinnest at 3.9-mm, attracts magic pencils
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Oct 26th 2009 6:22AM
posted Oct 26th 2009 6:22AM
[Via Akihabara News]
posted Oct 26th 2009 6:22AM
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What's the point of all these super thin displays besides making us spend $$$ for nothing? Seriously, 3 years ago my old CRT 32" was 10 miles thick. Now my 3 year old Panny plasma is about 3 inches thick, which is thin enough for me! Now here's a revolutionnary concept: how about making TVs with decent contrast (deep black level) and accurate primary colors ?!?
...What am i supposed to do with all this space in the back of my TV: stack up some empty cases of beer ???
Thin is cool, and that's what is attracting customers. My strong preference is for an outstanding picture, in all ways. And I will sacrifice "Thin Cool" to get it.
Cant wait until they beat the thickness or a sheet of copier paper, then I'll be impressed.
I'm not interested in a TV until it's so thin, it's transparent!
Seriously, what a joke.
Samsung appear to have addressed black levels with their latest local-dimming LED LCD. But LCD technology is still fatally flawed.
Instead of focusing on the thickness, they should be trying to increase the lame-ass viewing angles! Or scrapping LCD altogether and coming up with a technology that can be enjoyed by more than the person sitting directly in front of the screen.
So you are complaining about LCD TVs with crappy viewing angles?
Get a plasma, they are cheaper and have spectacular viewing angels.
Complaint. Solved.
That was easy!
BOGUS...
Does NOTHING at all for the viewing experience. Put a frakking matte screen on it... I can NOT have one of these glossy/mirrored display models in my viewing area, WAY too distracting.
Can someone explain why lcd's are being used for TVs when plasma is better?
You can get the plasma display super thin, light weight and it still beats lcd's in picture quality and better viewing angles. So why are they so fascinated with lcd?
LCDs are being used because plasmas had a bad launch. People still think burn-in and energy efficiency are huge problems when they're not. Plasma has a bad rep and rather than try and fix that reputation, manufacturers just made more LCDs instead.
That's what I am talking about kevon27!
You just hit it on the nose. Generally public is so retarded. They have a huge misconception that LCD TVs are superior when in reality plasmas have better picture, better contrast ratio, better viewing angle, and CHEAPER!
Wow, when will they ever learn? Then people complain that plasmas eat more electricity and have a potential burn on static images. Yea they eat more electricity, say about a $1 extra a month? Can you afford it? And those potential burn is thing of the past.
I love my Kuro, and I recommended three of my friends and they all are so impressed with the picture quality. Too bad Pioneer don't make it anymore....
Patiently waiting for 'magic pencil' + 'hot model' jokes...though I don't find the model particularly interesting.
If you had a choice between that model and say a woman that looks like Rosie O'Donnell... I can bet you gonna change your mind about that Samsung model really fast.
Because making money is about the marketing nothing else to these companies. The engineering comes second. I feel sorry for the engineers who must want to beat these marketing guys with their feature lists and buzzwords.
What is it with Joe Consumer and this thin fixation, are these TVs or freaking supermodels.
Build me the best quality TV and fit it in whatever size box it needs. Done.
But quality is not what sells - its the fud that does:
Cameras: Oh more megapixels must be better, but same optics = noisy disaster.
Camcorders: Oh DVD its digital must be better, more compression = less quality
LCD: Wow its thinner, must be better
Joe Consumer is definitely not Vulcan.
And Samsung who had seemed to have solved the blacks issue with local dimming is now going the route of "thin" with the edge lit. You can't even find an A950 if you wanted to buy one. Sad state of affairs.
I only look forward to Panasonic's plasma's now that they have their hands on that Kuro technology. My thoughts - in this economy that is not getting any better, that the Plasma bang for your buck and larger screens will eventually win out. Of course, that is logical and we know logic is not what sells TVs. Sigh.