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