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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!!!
I have a Cig, but do you have a light?
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.
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-.
Someone needs to hax0r that system and put Mr. Goatse on every screen in the house.
Are you serious? That's more than a CRT television! I hereby nominate this for the California Rolling Blackout Wise Use of Electricity Award.
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).