Would you drop US$500,000 on this 325-inch 8K TV? LG launches its first ultra-luxury screen, plus 3 more OTT home cinema displays from Bang & Olufsen, Samsung and C-Seed
- A collaborator with Porsche Design Studio, C-Seed presents a 165-inch foldable model, while the Beovision Contour was styled by Copenhagen’s Valeur Designers
- Gamers will love Samsung’s Neo QLED, the world’s first TV using Quantum Mini LEDs and the official TV partner of the Xbox Series X
What: LG DVLED Extreme Home Cinema Wall-sized Display
How much: HK$13.2 million (US$1.7 million)
Take a moment to digest that headline number: the largest TV in the range is 325 inches diagonally. Its frame measures 7.2 metres by four metres and it weighs 1,000kg. It is gargantuan. And the installation requires, understandably, a professional LG field engineer. There is no packing this big boy in the boot of your car after a trip to the nearest electrical superstore.
The screen’s specifications, too, are nothing short of spectacular. The LG DVLED Extreme Home Cinema uses between two million and 33 million individual diodes – depending on the resolution – to deliver a plethora of performance features. Most significant is probably the Direct-View LED technology, which is fundamentally different from traditional LED TVs. Where they are all actually LCD TVs with LED backlighting, the Direct-View LED technology is created directly by all those LED diodes, providing higher contrast ratios and brightness.
If you’re in the market for an 8K model, the 325-inch is the only available size, but the LG DVLED Extreme Home Cinema range includes 16:9 displays in sizes ranging from 81 inches to the massive 325 for Full-HD and 4K options. There’s also an UltraStretch video wall-style installation that gives a 32:9 display, ideal for live sports or absolutely ridiculous TV gaming sessions.
More objects of desire …
C-Seed indoor TV
“Design is not simply art, it is elegance of function,” said Ferdinand Alexander Porsche. Having worked with the Porsche Design Studio on their 201-inch LED outdoor TV, C-Seed brought the same aesthetic to the world’s first foldable 165-inch MicroLED TV with Adaptive Gap Calibration Technology. That’s jargon for “makes the joins between the display’s wings invisible” – and looks stunning unfolding silently from the floor. HK$3.6 million (US$460,000)
