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Digital Art For Your Wall-Mounted TV

Posted by simoniker on from the simpsons-also-work-of-art dept.

Makarand writes "According to the San Francisco Chronicle, if you own a plasma or LCD TV hanging on your wall, you could display high-definition video reproductions of famous paintings on your TV screen after watching your favorite sitcoms. Companies have begun selling devices that can display the work of world-famous artists and photographers on your TV screens. The art is stored on removable flash memory cards (sold separately) and is displayed onto high-definition TVs by electronics that cost around $500."

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  1. Ok, or... by Crimson+Midget · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You could just grab an inexpensive print and maybe, I don't know, just turn the tv off when you're not watching.

    (Or you can do something like what I saw on an episode of Monster House. They had a plasma tv set inside a picture frame that can house a print on an automatic roller that will roll up the print like a window shade when you turn the tv on. Great geek project.)

  2. See it in SF by MojoReisen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know if it is the same product, but you can view something similar in the Clift Hotel's lounge (in SF). Each "print" is displayed for a few minutes before changing to a diferent "print" (Klimt last time I was in there), So each "print" rotates through the various screens. They look quite nice, and this probably prevents burn-in.
    Drinks are expensive, though.

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  3. Another revnue stream for Bill Gates? by talexb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hasn't Bill Gates been busy buying up the rights to electronically reproduce works of art through his company Corbis?

  4. Re:Or.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If any of you have seen the Plasma displays in the Delta Terminals in Atlanta, you would think twice about even putting a slide show on your plasma TV.

    The Delta Screens change regularly between about 5 different images. After about 1.5 years you could see ghosting of all those images.

    I'd stick with turning my Plasma Screen off when I'm not using it... (Actually I'll be turning it off while dreaming about owning one...)

  5. Re:Didn't Bill G. do this ... by proj_2501 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    my friend interned at MS last summer. at the end of the summer gates has all the interns over his house for a BBQ and he allows them ONE QUESTION.

    anyway, the report is that gates does in deed still have those TVs

  6. Re:Maybe makes sense for LCDs.. by cruachan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You need moving artwork. Like this - http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/bill _viola/default.htm

  7. Re:Let's buy some... by ciurana · · Score: 3, Interesting

    netsharc wrote:
    > and install the Matrix screensaver on them

    That's exactly what they did at the Pyramid Cafe in Moscow, and uber-yuppie joint on Tverskaya avenue (think Times Square). A 250 ml glass of carrot juice there was about $10.00, plus tips, of course. The decor was rather nice, with the plasma screens showing The Matrix screen savers and looping through the movie in sync with techno music.

    I don't know if the place is still there. It was so hip I'd guess it to be ephimeral. In case you visit Moscow, The Pyramid is on Tvyerskaya just a few steps away from the Mayakovskaya metro station.

    Cheers!

    Eugene (aka Zhenya)

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  8. Re:My definition of "Fine Art" by egomaniac · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess if you've shelled out $3k (more like $5-10k [plasma-tv-den.com]) for a freakin' television, another $500 isn't much more of a bite.

    By the tone of your message, I assume that you feel $3,000 (much less $5K-$10K) for a television is a ridiculous extravagence.

    Well, I have a $7,000 plasma TV. Of course, many of my friends drive nice cars -- BMWs, expensive SUVs, and the like. I don't. I drive a ten-year-old Camry with a hundred thousand miles on it. It's not flashy, and I could certainly afford a nicer one if I wanted, but I'm happy with it. And you know what? My car plus an unbelievably nice TV still cost a hell of a lot less than what my friends drive.

    Personally, I feel that I got a much better deal. To me, the quality-of-life difference between a Camry and a BMW is much less than the difference between a 32" CRT and a 50" plasma. I have personally met people who think that I'm crazy for spending $7,000 on a TV, and then they turn around and spend $40,000 or more on a car. It's all about what you want out of life, I suppose. Plasma TVs are well within the reach of many middle-class folks, if they were just willing to spend a bit less on the status-symbol-on-wheels (oops, I mean "car").

    Just my $0.02.

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  9. Re:Or.. by starglider29a · · Score: 3, Interesting
    ...get REAL art from a LIVING artist. I showed this article to a REAL artist, and her answer was, and I quote:
    "instead of wasting hard earned cash on a picture of a painting, that you could actually buy a real friggin painting"

    And I think her SIG says it all

    "www.wrosson.com --Support a living artist cuz the dead ones don't need money"
    My answer, as a geek, is that this would be a great usage of P2P sharing. We could get the EBSQ artists on eBay to provide art, formatted to fit the screen nicely. then, we could share them with each other, switch them out every couple days (or when you clean your mouse ;-). That way, artists who are ALIVE, need exposure and cash (if you like the image buy the paint) can benefit from such profligate use of technology. It's too late for Vincent Van Gogh... let's use the 'Net for something more beneficial than pr0n or hamsterdance.com

    Starglider29a
    "The Internet will not change the world... the people on the Internet will"