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Digital Art For Your Wall-Mounted TV
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."
You could hook your computer up to your tv, and use a slideshow with things you probably already own!!!
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Plasma can draw up to 600 watts power.
Backlit LCDs or OLEDs would have to be the way to go.
I guess if you've shelled out $3k (more like $5-10k) for a freakin' television, another $500 isn't much more of a bite.
But for crying out loud, I could buy an entire collection of truly fine art for less than $500, and still have enough left over for the kids' room!
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
... and I can get a poster of a Van Gogh for $15, right down the street.
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That's so ...90's man.
I hear sony's come with the memory stick reader built in for digital picture viewing.
$500 for displaying pictures seems like kind of a waste.
Don't waste time... procrastinate now!
$500 seems insanly over-priced for this sort of thing. Most dvd players i know of will play picture discs burnded with jpgs, how is this better?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
If a picture is displayed for too long on some of these Tvs then the picture becomes permanently engraved into the screen.
But plasma televisions have severe burn-in issues. If this is something you'd regularly do, it seems like the quickest way to turn your $8000 big screen into a $20 art print with lower resolution and a cheap-looking plastic frame.
Not to mention that power dissipation/efficiency of plasma televisions is not -wonderful-.
I've seen plasma burn-in (see "reason screen savers were invented:") on a $15k plasma TV. I'm not so sure that putting a static image on a plasma screen is anything short of lunacy.
Plasma displays are terrible about burn-in. I think this is a horrible idea. If you want a high resolution image of a famous painting, just get one on paper. It would probably look better too.
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If they could figure out an RFID piece for this, this could possibly save many marriage squabbles. "Dogs Playing Poker" when he's in the room, and Anne Geddes photos when she's in the room. Just hope they're not in the room at the same time, or you might get fat kids in dog costumes playing poker.
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.)
I just bought a 32" LCD HDTV and even I think this is stupid expensive.
Even an ancient Packard Bell computer can output a 1280x768 image to an HDTV. Heck, an old Palm Pilot with one of the Presenter-to-go dongles can put out enough pixels for still images!
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etc.
These don't have HDTV outputs, but that shouldn't run the price from $80 to $500.
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.
"Nothing is impossible for the man who refuses to listen to reason"
Hasn't Bill Gates been busy buying up the rights to electronically reproduce works of art through his company Corbis?
Are you serious? That's more than a CRT television! I hereby nominate this for the California Rolling Blackout Wise Use of Electricity Award.
many of the channels I watch have those annoying little logos that burn the crap out of plasma...
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That Google search looked pretty useless at first due to spam, but I found a great FAQ from Gateway:Great! Not only do the instructions sound like DDR cheats, but Gateway is telling me to fight burn-in by burning in the whole screen for 50 hours! A few "masterpieces" later, and you've got a $10,000 night light.
No wonder they call it the "bleeding edge"...
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Exactly what tax bracket do you think I'm in, sir? :)
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could charge upwards of $200 per month for digital collections of art by painters that have been dead for hundreds of years.
What moron decided on custom $3000 boxes to serve media instead of and off-the-shelf DVD player with scripted DVDs? For 1/10th of the price, you could sell a nearly identical version of this at Best Buy. Thousands of historical paintings, licensed modern works or 10 min vid clips of easily obtainable things like the ocean, forests or everyone's favorite fish tanks.
Personally, I would just download JPGs and MPGs of whatever I want and play it on my $40 DVD player that reads regular files off any burned CDR or DVD-R.
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.
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I just wanted to sum up some things that popped in my head as potential problems with this scenario, and why I think it will fail badly:
1) Multiple thousand dollar equipment, easily breakable and STEALABLE in PUBLIC places.
2) High month-to-month costs.
3) Plasma burn-in/wear and tear.
4) Why replace something you could buy for $100-$1000 potentially (prints, etc.) that will last practically FOREVER, with something this expensive, that will NOT last very long.
5) Power consumption - some of these monitors consume a CRAP load of electricity.
6) Cheaper and easier alternatives. Why buy this proprietary crap, when you can easily, and for MUCH Less set up your own system to display images / screensavers / whatever you want.
Just my thoughts. Some of these are in the posts before, but some of them aren't.
Any ideas or refutations on these?
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Plasma screens have to be much brighter then LCD monitors. While LCD monitors use less power then a conventional TV (or monitor), large format Plasmas chew up way more electrons.
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Seriously. I was looking at $3000 - $5000 flat TVs in the 40" range. I ended up going with a projector based on a friends recommendation, and now I will never go back to lame-o screen-based displays. $1000 for http://www.projectorpeople.com/hometheater/projdtl s.asp?itemid=1144&itmname=InFocus+X1low end projector and now I've got a home theater to die for. Screw plasma - I've now got a 120" TV which disappears when not in use! Plus it's smaller (about the size of a thick hardcover book) and lighter (~6 lbs).
Mount it on the ceiling and the thing takes up literraly no space in your living room (well, you do have to leave one wall blank of decorations). The picture is gorgeous and can be used for TV, DVDs, and video game consoles. Heck, it's got a VGA port too, I could bring out a laptop and plug it in to watch xmms visualization plugins.
The only downsides are that it has no sound built in (that's okay, I prefer running it through my stereo better), and doing the ceiling mount was a bit more effort than just plunking down a TV or hanging a flatscreen on the wall.
I highly recommend a projector - not this specific model, pretty much any one will do (though DLP seems like a better choice for watching TV than an LCD based projector, which most of the expensive ones are).
In one of my classes, the professor offered 3% bonus if the class could not have one cell phone go off the whole semster. Half way through that class period, a cell phone goes off in the front row.
ARRRGGHHH.
People need to get over it. Two years ago, you could afford to be out of the loop for a whole _hour_ to go to class, so why can't you now? Just because you don't have to? Blah.
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For $500, you can turn your $5,000 TV into a $5 poster.