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‘World’s biggest TV’ designed by Porsche [video]

By | January 18, 2013, 2:57 AM PST

Ever get the feeling like someone out there is trying to revolutionize how we watch TV? Just over the last few years, the industry’s gone from the immense buzz over 3D HDTV to the advent of pixel-rich 4K, Ultra HD OLEDs and Smart TVs. The one constant amidst all this many-splintered experimentation is that TV screens are only going to get bigger and bigger, as evidenced by the showcasing of Samsung’s 110-inch Easel TV on display at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.

So don’t be too shocked if something as insanely impractical as the C’SEED 201-inch home theater behemoth becomes ubiquitous. The Porsche-designed outdoor TV screen, billed by C’SEED as the world’s largest, features a high-resolution display comprised of 725,000 LEDs all working synchronously to project as much as 4.4 trillion colors at 5000 nits of brightness.

Extravagant bells and whistles include streaming content made possible through fiber-optic cables, a built-in Windows 7 server and three 700W subwoofers. As protection for the customer’s investment, the TV set also comes with a biometric fingerprint recognition security system to prevent unauthorized use, along with wind sensors, lasers and water-resistant components as a safeguard against hazardous environmental conditions.

The entertainment system’s most awe-inspiring feature, though, may be the way it makes an entrance. Custom-built beneath the ground, the collapsed 7-panel array can be summoned via remote control to rise up to a height of up to 15 feet and unfold to form one massive panel. The whole process takes about 25 seconds and the whole system can be rotated 135 degrees to suit whatever angle the audience chooses to watch from.

The C’SEED 201 was recently awarded the Red Dot “Best of the Best 2012″ design award and is estimated to run you $687,775 for the privilege of being one of the first on your block to have something truly big to brag about.

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About Tuan Nguyen

Tuan C. Nguyen was a contributing editor for SmartPlanet from 2011 to 2013.

Tuan Nguyen

Tuan Nguyen

Contributing Editor

Tuan C. Nguyen is a freelance science journalist based in New York City. He has written for the U.S. News and World Report, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC News, AOL, Yahoo! News and LiveScience. Formerly, he was reporter and producer for the technology section of ABCNews.com. He holds degrees from the University of California Los Angeles and the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism.

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wow what a great idea
why be outside on a beautiful day with some gorgeous broad except to watch TV? It's like having your own personal blaring and obnoxious LED highway billboard right near by.
Humans are so wierd. If we can make something we'll shove it down our throats because of the profit motive regardless of the social or environmental injury.
Posted by affordablecomputerguy@...
18th Jan
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What the heck is wrong with the profit motive?
Explain why it's wrong to earn any money from an idea? Why is profit bad?

What is the social and environmental "injury" that you speak of?
Posted by adornoe
18th Jan
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It's not the "profit motive" that is the problem.
It's insecure people who think they need to buy every silly thing in order to be cool.

About 15 years ago, the wife and I were at this wonderful, isolated hunting lodge on an island. It's one of those places where you truly appreciate the concept of "quiet", and really recognize how noisy civilization is everywhere else. There was a reading room with a fireplace and large picture windows overlooking the harbor below. Our favorite thing to do in the evening after dinner was to start a fire, watch the sunset over the harbor, and then silently read as we cuddled until the late hours in the silence beyond the crackling coming from the fireplace.

One evening, we arrived at the reading room, and our usual seat in front of the fireplace was occupied by this younger couple. Except they weren't enjoying the fire, view or books; They were staring blankly into a handheld television!

The wife and I looked at each other with puzzled expressions, and then located ourselves at another seat in the room. Every so often, we'd turn to look at these kids in a kind of disbelief, with the same thought going through our minds.

Finally, one of them turned and asked, "Are we bothering you?".

Simultaneously, we both said "Welll...". I continued, "Well, what we don't understand is why you'd purposely go to the trouble of travelling half-a-day over the ocean to arrive at a beautiful, secluded, tranquil, and utterly removed-from-civilization location such as this, only to then negate the effort by spending your evening watching television; something you could have easily done at home."

There was an awkward silence beyond the crackling of the embers and the sound of whatever program it was they were watching.

We all went back to our pastimes. A few moments later, the young couple quietly left, and we had our couch by the fire back.
Posted by JohnMcGrew@...
18th Jan
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But, to some people, having expensive things, gives them great pleasure,
and others might want things because, they want them for no other reason than that, they can get them and afford them.

BTW, that's part of the free market system, where people are free to get what they want, whether they need them or not.

Why does anyone need a 10,000 square foot home, or even a 5,000 sq. ft. home? Why does anyone need an SUV or the most powerful PC in the world? Why does anyone need diamonds or gold jewelry? Why does any woman need to get a very expensive wedding dress? Chances are that, people don't really need those things, but, to many, it's pleasurable, and makes them feel powerful,and envied, and looked-up to.

If someone can afford a 200 inch HDTV, then, it's a huge amount of money whick will get "redistributed" through the economy, instead of just sitting at a bank account somewhere collecting interest for the account owner only.

If you have it flaunt it, and it works its way through the economy.
Posted by adornoe
18th Jan
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Profit Motive
Great things have occurred and been created when a positive mindset has been motivated by profit.
Posted by DarthTater
18th Jan
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Big a--ed TV
Okay, not my particular cup of tea even if I could come close to affording it, but look at it as something for the early adopters and folks that really want the next great thing. In other words, pretty neat. Wonder what it morphs into in a few years. This is still early, it might be a great idea in the long run, it might tank, let's wait and see!
Posted by garyfizer@...
18th Jan
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all best serials
new TV sequence on popular television results and systems have become increasingly habit forming in modern times. all best serials
Posted by micheal131
18th Feb
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Watch live TV online
Great idea to design Worlds biggest TV. But now a days Live TV online is better option to watch live tv very easily. I watch Live Tv online at http://www.zengatv.com/live
Posted by Zengatv
17th Apr
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