TV Set Doubles as a Mirror

Bill Kendrick writes "New Scientist reports there's a new wide-screen LCD from Philips which becomes a mirror when you turn it off. Now I just need that holographic fireplace..." Sorry - a dupe from June

Comments

Believe me

[SYFer]

It's a mirror even when its on.

Re:Believe me

[Michael Woodhams]

I believe you.

When I read the summary, I thought "Is this anything more clever than just a semi-reflective coat on a flat TV screen?" The answer is "no".

This means:
a) With one of these, all those annoying reflections you get off your TV screen already get hugely worse.
b) You could get much the same effect much cheaper by putting a standard sheet of semi-reflective glass in front of your standard TV.

Re:Believe me

[Jeremi]

Yes, some things are just way more scary than Java the Hut.

Like what? C# the Hut?

Re:Believe me

[niker]

A picture's worth a thousand words: clicky

Beneath the woman's neck on the screen you'll find a couple of massive reflections from the ceiling interfering with the picture.

Being a "promotional" picture, the actual experience with this screen is probably worse than that illustrated.

Re:Believe me

[aled]

That character from Episode 1.0 is scary, you know, .jar .jar /bin

great

[webperf]

now I need to comb my hair before I watch tv ;(

yeah

[g-to-the-o-to-the-g]

Now i can check my hair between commercials. Thanks philips!

Re:yeah

[mobby_6kl]

>between commercials

You only turn on your TV to watch commercials? ;)

Ohh this is sexy

[Organized Konfusion]

I'd love on in my bathroom, I wonder if I can have alpha transparency and watch TV while I'm shaving. Or hook it up to the TV-Out on my PC and read slashdot while I'm in the bath!!

Re:Ohh this is sexy

[Hentai]

"Hail Skroob!"

"I told you never to call me on this wall!"

A messedge board also...

[RoadkillBunny]

I use my TV also as a message board. When I go somewhere and want people to know where I am, I just write a message on a paper, turn the TV on, put the paper on it, and turn the TV off. It sticks on for some reason, does anyone know why?

Great..

[Anonymous Coward]

So now your SO will not only be able to talk a movie to death, she'll also be tempted to turn the TV off to check her hair/teeth/whatever.

Mirror Site

[nucal]

Mirror posted here.

More TV... Just what we need..

[Rip Van Winkle]

Great... Just great... TVs in more rooms of the house.

How many TVs do we actually need in the house? It isn't enough that we get 100+ channels of absolute garbage but we have to display it in every single room in the house. Just in case I miss 1 minute of re-runs of re-runs of MASH.

You have to wonder what effect all this TV watching has on the children's attention span.

Re:More TV... Just what we need..

[Azadre]

You'd be surprised at how it has improved my attentio... Hey this thing is a TV AND a mirror... cool.

Re:This is one of those things that make you think

[MrRTFM]

well - because they can I suppose.

It isnt a bad idea to use the TV as *something* when its turned off, but I'd have thought a mirror would be at the wrong height (you dont want to sit down to look in the mirror).

I'd personally prefer a high res screen saver

Mirror, Mirror

[Redwing]

An duplicate story (from last June).

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/12/2226 20 1

Perhaps if the editors paused for reflection...

Reflection is a problem!

[microbox]

When the screen is switched on, anyone standing in front of it sees only the picture. With the television switched off, the surface behaves like an ordinary mirror.

What about annoying background light reflecting off your screen while watching TV. Many enjoy watching TV in the dark because even the piece of glass on ordinary TVs is too reflective, and you can see a lightbulb on Darth Vader

Ewwww

[rffmna]

You watch the tv, look at all the hot chicks and muscle-guys, and you find a fat ugly guy lying on the couch, when you turn the tv off..

Re:This is one of those things that make you think

[vontrotsky]

I like this. Don't think of it as something to replace a mirror, but at something to replace the tv. During the vast majority of the time, when the tv is off, you have a (hopefully) shiny mirror instead of an ugly piece of electronics on the wall.

Jeff

The sun will be angry

[no1here]

Philips just stole the very function of the sun to turn televisions into mirrors, and even when the TV is on. I wonder if she can bring a lawsuit against Philips if they have patented the invention. Though, how would the sun show prior art? Anyone have some documentation of the first time they saw themselves in the glare coming off the television?

Redundant feature

[Silon]

Doesn't a regular TV do that if you wipe the dust off the screen regularly?

To be put down and avoided

[SlowMovingTarget]

Doesn't TV add ten pounds to your appearance?

I don't need an even stronger reason to never turn the TV off.

WooHoo

[Anonymous Coward]

So if you mount it above your bed you and your life partner could either watch a porno, or be the porno.

Scary...

[stateofmind]

My luck I would be enjoying a porno, then turn off the tv. And in the reflection see my girlfriend standing behind me.

Josh