Panasonic: Bigger is Better
This was the TV that everyone was talking about. And I do mean everyone. You could not walk down the CES trade show floor without hearing a couple of people buzzing about the monstrous proportions of this thing.
The contrast ratio wasn’t the best and the color reproduction could have been better, but there is nowhere else where you can bask in the monumental glory of a 150-inch plasma display. This results in a television that is nearly 8 feet tall and almost 12 feet wide, making it pretty much impossible to fit into any normal person’s home. It’s an exercise in futility, but it’s an exercise that will leave you in awe.
Having a huge television without resolution to make is pointless. We’ve all seen non-HDTV content on a big HDTV and, well, the image is less than stellar. Stretching regular HD content onto a 150-inch screen would be equally disappointing. That’s why Panasonic has opted for a resolution that has four times as many pixels as 1080p. The effective image is 2160 pixels tall and 4096 pixels wide, for a total of 8.84 million pixels.
Panasonic was not willing to disclose any further information, so we don’t know when this will make it to market (if ever) nor do we know how much it’ll cost. But that’s almost beside the point, because you’ll have to build a room around this giant TV, rather than the other way around.
For more HDTV eye candy, don’t forget to check out our galleries:
Panasonic CES 2008 Photo Gallery
Pioneer CES 2008 Photo Gallery
Samsung CES 2008 Photo Gallery
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