What on Earth are Samsung up to?

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Cryptic Teaser for new TV shape has us baffled

Released a few days ago on the Samsung Tomorrow site and bamboozling us ever since is the image below.

The Global Company Blog stated:

A true innovation of TV design is coming up with an unprecedented new TV shape and timeless gallery design…

...is coming at CES 2013, of course. But what the devil are we to make of of it all?

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Looking at it literally, 'timeless gallery design' and the portrait orientation of the TV in the image would point to just that: a traditional television spun 90 degrees on its axis. But that would be preposterous, right? Unless, somehow, Samsung has managed to engineer some kind of rotating TV, especially so you can enjoy the family photos without cropping. Which also sounds totally fanciful.

For what it's worth, the image on Samsung Tomorrow is saved with the file name, ' frame-TV_keyimage..' so that would indicate the working title of the TV, at least, is Frame TV so where can we go with that?

Samsung has already virtually reached the extreme edges when it comes to the micro-bezel designs featured in their Flagship LED TV range so we can't imagine they're making such a big deal about about going slimmer yet. Perhaps they've gone the other way and gone for something like this...

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...but that's the realms of the custom install market and hardly in keeping with the design ethos of the Company. Nope, not likely.

Perhaps it relates to their OLED TV and they've found a way to make a large-screen flexible panel and managed to keep it under wraps? But that would just be bendy, not particularly formed or 'timeless'. So that's out and also almost totally implausible.

Maybe they've manufactured a screen especially for those people that like to use Fisheye lenses or effects in their photography and movie shooting. Think we're getting further off track.

The depth of field to the tree in the shot possibly hints at 3D - maybe glasses free - but Samsung pooh poohed that idea last year as being 10 years from reality so we can't see that either.

We give up. So, imaginative and ingenious AVForums members, over to you...

And no prizes for anyone that puts forward Dusty Bin.
 

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A new TV 'shape'?

Thinner?

Different aspect ratio?

I've long thought (as have many others) that 16:9 was a missed oportunity. 2.00:1 would have been the best compromise for ratios. It would have meant very small black bars for 1.85:1, very small black bars for 2.35/2.40:1, and relatively little picture lost/distortion for those who are less worried than us purists about OAR and who just want to full the screen.

The fact that most TV was in 4:3 a the big draw back, but that's gone now. A move to 2.00:1 wouldn't require massive changed for broadcasters, either. Use the same 16:9 cameras, and crop a bit, losing hardly and resolution, or keep it 16:9 and the the customer decide.

Just a thought.

Steve W
 
I think thats not a tv in the pic it's actually a holographic emitter on the floor which can project any size,shape tv in full 360 field of view:rotfl:
 
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A new TV 'shape'?

Thinner?

Different aspect ratio?

I've long thought (as have many others) that 16:9 was a missed oportunity. 2.00:1 would have been the best compromise for ratios. It would have meant very small black bars for 1.85:1, very small black bars for 2.35/2.40:1, and relatively little picture lost/distortion for those who are less worried than us purists about OAR and who just want to full the screen.

The fact that most TV was in 4:3 a the big draw back, but that's gone now. A move to 2.00:1 wouldn't require massive changed for broadcasters, either. Use the same 16:9 cameras, and crop a bit, losing hardly and resolution, or keep it 16:9 and the the customer decide.

Just a thought.

Steve W

Even better would be if movie directors just filmed in 16:9 aspect ratio to start with. No need for new TVs with new aspect ratios. Glorious full screen viewing without cropping or stretching and no annoying vertical borders when watching 16:9 TV shows.

Plus 16:9 is closer to the golden ratio than the aspect ratios used in movies with the golden ratio meant to be the most aesthetically pleasing.

Perhaps the mistake was to not go with 16:10 rather than going wider? It would have had larger black borders for movies currently out, but I like to imagine in this alternative mathematical universe, movie directors didn't have the stubborn "films are made for the cinema" approach and instead had the "people will see the film once or twice at cinema but countless times on the TV, I'll therefore make the aspect ratio better suited to TV widescreen."
 

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