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[mipa]

I wouldn't be surprised by 2015 we have LED's and OLED's of 100" being sold in the USA. Hope so!

[jtimouri]

I don't really understand this article. So big deal, today the technology doesn't make sense for the home consumer. But how many more times do you have to see that tomorrow is a new day, before such articles as this stop appearing?

[MartinCottrell]

Poor Article. You expect tech to double in spec every 12-18months. My 60inch looks small today and needs better resolution to make it real. Blu-ray disks support 4K as does HDMI 1.4a. Movies are recorded 4K today so no conversion by the studios is needed. The last place I expected ludites!

[rlstrand]

Since the recommended THX viewing distance for an 84 inch screen is 9.4 feet and fully resolved viewing distance for 1080 HDTV 84 inch screen is 11 feet, something better than 1080 HDTV is needed.

If we believe Steve Jobs is correct, then extrapolating from iPhone resolution an 84 inch display would need better than 8K resolution to avoid pixelation.

[bikdav]

O.K. So it may not actually happen. But, LG proved that such high resolution is not impossible. Is it practical? not at this time _ at least.

[ThentonBurke]

Articles like this are so incredibly stupid. Does this author believe internet speeds have maxed out, never to increase again? Does he believe that the price of technology remains static? Does he believe the size of 4k cameras will remain the same for eternity? And I've got news for you, resolution matters, whether it be on a 84-inch display or my 3.5-inch iphone. 25 feet screen to notice a difference??? Give me a damn break.

[AndrewWent]

Agree with SO many of the comments left here. I receive non-HD TV over an HD set, have a PC which after 2 years still doesn't have the USB3 devices and SATA3 drive it will take (finance..). No you will not be able to stream at a rate to justify this baby for a while - and yes the internet will get faster, though will your ISP put enough kit online to keep up? I doubt it.. But people do buy this stuff and yes they put these little disk thingies in them to watch...

[DanielGriffiths]

MartinCottrell, on 30 December 2011 - 02:06 PM, said:

Poor Article. You expect tech to double in spec every 12-18months. My 60inch looks small today and needs better resolution to make it real. Blu-ray disks support 4K as does HDMI 1.4a. Movies are recorded 4K today so no conversion by the studios is needed. The last place I expected ludites!

Sorry but this is completely wrong. You could store the data for a 4k video on a bluray disc but it cannot use 4k. The max bandwidth allows for only 1080p at 24 frames per second, there is no support for 4K and if there were it would be under 6 frame per sceond varying depending on which 4K. HMDI 1.4 would only be able to transfer movies 4K as it only supports up to 24 frames per second, not ideal for tv, especially not computers. So far the only thing that can do this is DisplayPort if I am not out of date on information.

Though, this article / the person who "wrote" about needing a 25 foot screen is completely wrong. The size of the screen depends on how far away you are from the screen, you don't need a bigger screen to make use of higher resolutions, what a load of *******. The amount of time I hear things like "oh we can't see more frames than... we can't see more pixels than..." It doesn't matter, we do not look at pixels in the real world and would benefit dramatically in higher resolutions for corrections in colour, sharpness, oh and for the fact that objects aren't made of pixels! Same goes with refresh rate, objects don't refresh, we need much higher frame rates than we can see to compensated for things like seeing inbetween frames switching and also to correct a lot of things wrong with screen refreshing to display motion.

[jzabrams]

Though I do like the girl, I dismissed this TV as soon as I saw the (3D presumably) glasses....

[HammerStrike]

This tech has real life applications today, particularly for LG. The main beef with their passive 3D approach is that each eye is only seeing 540 lines of resolution, as opposed to the 1080 lines an active shutter 3D approach provides. if you use a 4K screen (which has a vertical resolution of 2160, or 1080x2) you can get all the benefits of a passive 3D solution while still getting 1080 vertical lines of resolution. Whether or not 3D is the killer app to drive it is debatable, but the functionality a 4K screen would provide is indisputable. Also, a 84" 4K monitor is a PC gamers wet dream.

[scorobertsgd42]

You're missing the biggest benefit of 4K, passive true HD 3d viewing. The current passive 3d sets half the resolution to send half to each eye. With 4k, you get 1080p to each eye on a passive set. This is the biggest benefit.

[RobertSmithrlp7]

mipa, on 30 December 2011 - 09:33 AM, said:

I wouldn't be surprised by 2015 we have LED's and OLED's of 100" being sold in the USA. Hope so!

Me too, Oleds are better in just about every aspect and LGs with that super nice bezel is just icing on the cake. Hopefully we can buy it this year.

[Andy1276]

I believe that since it was shown at the CES 2012 it will be out soon. LG does a good job in terms of presenting new items and selling it within good time frame.

[TheArtistAsJeffery]

You obviously dont know sqawt about screens. Human eye can see up to 350 ppi 1080p @ 46" (the norm) is only 50 - 60 ppi. so 2160p (you have quadrupled the pixals) but only doubled the size of screen. 2160p @ 84" is a mere 100 - 120 ppi. iPhone 4 is 330ppi LRN2SCREEN

[DonKim]

Still no exact release date for that 84-inch tv but rumour has it that it will be in the beginning of this year's fall. I personally can't wait to see it in action and I might just use a chunk of my savings to get it. Till the oled comes out of course

[Manojdsfw]

Never Say Never Again! What seems impossible today becomes possible tomorrow, and naysayers are left with egg on their faces! Who would have thought something like an OLED TV possible a few years back - yet here we have LG OLED TV available in the market for general buyers. So, we might see 4K adopted in future in much the same way that HD has been adopted now.