Panasonic announced the world’s largest TV, at 103 inches, a few months ago, and it’s still making the trade-show and marketing rounds. The TV, which has no model number as yet, made recent appearances at Display 2006 in Japan and at the NYSE.
Some specs include 1920 x 1080 resolution, 3000:1 contrast ratio, size of 7.5 x 4.2 feet, weight 400 lbs.
It’s a nice TV and a good accomplishment by Matsushita, but we believe that the future of very-large-screen TVs lies in printing them directly onto the walls of our rooms. Philips already uses high-precision inkjet printers to create 40-inch polymer OLED displays and there is every reason to believe that this approach can be ramped-up to wall-sized TVs.
And so, the tech staff at Gadgetmaniac would like to take this opportunity and go out on the proverbial limb, and hand you a metaphorical saw and issue the following prediction: In the future we will not buy large-screen TVs as such, but rather rent 3D printers to embed those same TVs into our walls.
Panasonic 103″ Full HD PDP TV – Akihabara News, 21/04/2006
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That’s quite a prediction. Hopefully we’ll also be able to use 3-D printers to embed some nachos and beer into our hands when we watch those TV’s!
It would be exciting, and maybe even a little creepy, the first time your watched a 3D printer embedding a TV onto a wall.