The flat is dead, here is the flexible television - Knack.be

Sensation at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: Samsung took out a flexible television. What is it good for, no one knows the time being, but it is spectacular.

Plat is out: Samsung proposes a flexible screen for

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Samsung had just proposed a series of UHD TVs on stage in Las Vegas (ultra high definition: good for 8 million pixels, four times HD 1080p), when there was still time for dessert appeared. That came in the form of an associate television with a screen diagonal of 85 cm inch/212) that looked just flat on the face, but with a simple press of a button bow until he showed the gentle concave curve also some of Samsung’s other obeweeglijke UHD devices have.

Why do you need it? It is an unanswered question. The device was in fact a prototype and is not immediately expected in the shop. But if it can, why not? Samsung argues that a flat screen is better in some situations and a curved screen in another. This unit would thus give the viewer the choice. In any case, the advantage of a curved screen would be that the viewing distance to the screen is uniform (because if you’re sitting right in front of a flat screen, the sides are slightly further away than the center of the screen).

TV deluxe

Flexible screens are as the cream of the crop in the technology sector. Samsung’s Korean rival LG recently took out a flexible smartphone. Even in a flat, rigid unit which screens would be useful, because they are less easy to crack if dropped from a table or a handbag. And though it may be practical applications get out, that Samsung manages to make such large flexible displays is remarkable.

Associate Professor (also known as 4K) is now the new selling point of television manufacturers. Now 3D is finally flopped, they try super deluxe appliances to Peddle with generous displays (Samsung presented at CES a sample of 110 inch/275 inches) and pixel densities to you dizzy.

There are However, quite a few problems with it. For now cost UHD sets thousands of dollars. Moreover, virtually all anyone in recent years been the move to a flat and is a television simply not something you buy every year.

Content remains king

In addition, the tube anyway is facing increasing competition from video streaming to smartphones and tablets. And what was true for 3D, 4K also applies: if there are no programs in that format, you have nothing to your expensive handset

But that will change, say the television producers.. Samsung says relying on its upscaling algorithm that video in 1080p sales to 4K. The content providers say they will follow. Netflix, the U.S. video streaming company that now would come to Belgium has already announced that the programs it produces itself (such as the highly successful series “House of Cards” with Kevin Spacey) will record. 4K