Samsung's absurd 219-inch TV takes up an entire wall - thus its name, 'The Wall'
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Ben Gilbert
Jan 7, 2019, 21:29 IST
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Samsung's "The Wall" TV is a 219-inch behemoth.
Yes, that's a television above. Really!
It's Samsung's latest version of "The Wall" - a new type of TV that uses individual panels to make up a massive single screen.
There's no price on this massive screen.
It's official: Your TV isn't as big as Samsung's "The Wall" television. Unless you own a movie theater, perhaps?
This hulking 219-inch TV isn't just huge - it's also sporting a fancy display technology known as microLED, which Samsung says is at the heart of "the screen of the future."
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So what's the big deal? Here's what we know.
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At 219-inches, Samsung's "The Wall" TV is bigger than ever before:
Here's one of those screen modules:
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One such application: Displays with strange shapes being used for very specific things.
And that's not all:
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A more reasonable 75-inch model was shown off — a consumer-friendly version of Samsung's new tech:
More than just a TV, "The Wall" is envisioned as a means of displaying art.
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Whether this will be the future of TVs remains to be seen, but it's certainly a more novel concept than most. If nothing else, it's ambitious and fascinating.
Check out a video of the modular TV concept from Samsung right here, care of Engadget:
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