A giant 34-foot LED TV for movie theaters

Samsung made a giant 34-foot LED TV for movie theaters
It's ten times brighter than a projector and meets industry color standards.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/14/samsung-made-a-giant-34-foot-led-tv-for-movie-theaters/

"Samsung has unveiled the Cinema LED Screen that's an epic 10.3 meters (33.8 feet, or 406 inches). It runs at full 4K (4,096 x 2,160) resolution, features an (unnamed) HDR and peaks out at 146 fL of brighntess, "ten times greater than that offered by standard projector technologies," Samsung said in a news release."

 

Perfect, but unfortunately it will not fit in any room at my home

 

Won't it destroy viewers eyesight? I mean, so much light in dark environment right into your eyes, unlike light reflected from projector?

 

HDR fodder... deep blacks, sparkling light, IDK how it compares to TV and display brightness, projectors are devilishly dim.

Maybe they won't need to keep the house lights down so low anymore

 

For this, you build a house around it.

 

I'll try to build a great house, but in the afterlife, if I succeed, that time I'll have more than a great big monitor

 

Yeah; 10x what a projector offers doesn't amount to much. Even at movie theatre levels (because none of them are really dark...).

At only 4K though, the optimum viewing distance for those with good eyesight is around 25 feet (for cinema usage). Needs much more resolution for a movie theatre for every seat in the theatre/room to be enjoyed (somewhat equally).

This would still be great for an open plan home with a wall with two or three floors ceiling height that isn't already full of windows...

If you could (also) turn it around and that side of your home faces a field; you can have hundreds of your closest friends enjoy a show too. Bring big speakers.

 

Look at the article again, the speakers come with it

"To complement the image quality, Samsung worked with its JBL by Harman division on the sound tech. That system features speakers around the screen, proprietary audio processing tech, and "Sculpted Surround Sound" from JBL to provide more dramatic and faithful audio."

 

I did see that, but any built in TV speaker(s) are usually not worth the power they use.

And; I meant it more for the 'outdoor' audience too...

Without walls and a ceiling; the sound is totally different when the only boundary is 'earth'.

 

It's not an outdoor screen, and it's not a projection based system, it's a real screen, just *huge*:

"Samsung Electronics has installed its first ever commercial Cinema LED Screen at Lotte Cinema World Tower in Korea."

The speakers need to be on the sides as described because the screen would block the sound - it's not transparent to audio or anything like a projection screen would be in most theaters.

You'd need to weather-ize that screen and speakers for outdoor use. Probably could be done, just a bit more green to complete the deal.

 

I know, I know... (look at my original post above...).

I was just continuing my little story of using it in a home - and possibly being able to turn the wall it was on to face outdoors...

After all, anyone who is considering this for 'home use' won't care about another $0.5M or so to enable that feature to show off to their friends, right?

 

A 34' + Speakers width diagonally measured spinning exterior wall...

 

Yeah; for even more 'drama' I wouldn't spin it horizontally - I'd flip it vertically (it does have auto rotation, right?).

And the outdoor speakers would be permanently mounted outdoors hidden in huge shrubs, so they are aesthetically pleasing, of course.

 

You grew up watching the "Thunderbirds" didn't you?

 

Nah, don't remember that one. (I 'grew up' a very long time ago when TV wasn't an option unless it was raining cats and dogs outside...).

 

Same here, it wasn't until I was older and bought my own TV that I got to watch all that fun stuff.

Back then, without the TV, I had outdoor muscles and a tan, now I don't have the tan

 

Why. A projector of 4K resolution which can work with the theater's existing, many times superior sound system and existing screen would be way superior. Modern cinemas have superior screens and sound equipment, a digital projector which can display TV or Blu-Ray images is a better option.

 

There are a lot of new theatres and rebuilds that want to shrink venue to fit more screens, so this is an opportunity to fulfull that for less money or less build cost.

There are plenty of corporations that need something like this for their onside media presentations, and the more compact solution could be an advantage there too.

Not withstanding @tilleroftheearth 's brilliant spinning exterior wall, this setup might be easy to breakdown for mobile use as well.

It's just another solution, one that doesn't have the brightness limitations of front/rear projection.

 

For those times when you absolutely have to have a drive-in movie night.

 

Modern theatres cannot equal the visual 'feel' of the 70mm cinemas I enjoyed so long ago.

Like I said of the LED TV here; it needs much, much more resolution...

 

That reminds me of this event and article, bringing back 70mm from the dust...

Return of 70mm film sends cinema bosses scrambling for old projectors

Fifty-year-old temperamental clattering contraption flickers in the dark again as filmmakers seek "vivid and vital" screenings.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/retu...bling-for-old-projectors-20160108-gm24gt.html

"When it was announced last year that Quentin Tarantino's new film, The Hateful Eight, would screen exclusively for the first week on 70mm film, digital-based cinemas around the world scrambled to find working 70mm projectors. Most failed.

At Yarraville's Sun Theatre, owner Michael Smith succeeded because he asked veteran Melbourne projectionist Brian Davis where he might procure one. "I have two in my garage," Davis replied."

 

Nobody will pay $12-$18 for a movie ticket to watch a fancy TV set and it's built in speakers. Dumb down movie theater screens too much and downgrade the sound, people will wait for the Blu-Ray and watch it at home. Ever heard of IMax, Big D, RPX, etc premium screens and their ilk. People who go to a theater want premium sight and sound and showmanship they can't get at home. That fancy TV I bet does not have QSC power amplifiers with over 750 watts or more per channel of real power, and I bet it does not have the equivalent of real JBL Cinema speakers, Klipsch Cinema speakers or QSC cinema loudspeakers, the type of which are far larger than 99% of homes can fit in their living room either. This TV for a corporate AV application would be fine, or some home application for someone who was a Billionaire, but this folks IS NOT REAL THEATER, and it never will be that. The sound system in a real theater today is easily $15-$25,000 alone. Per screen, most of that is loudspeakers.