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Harrods Sells Holographic TV
beuh_dave writes "Harrods is selling a holographic TV, CLARO, for £15,000. The Holoscreen is a revolutionary holographic film which displays any image fed through a projector at a specific angle on to a transparent display. All other light is ignored. The result is a remarkably bright and sharp image quality - even in brightly lit environments."
Carry on. If you need me, I'll be in the holodeck.
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I like how 'Harrods' in the summary's URL is misspelt, but that it's a redirect to the real 'harrods.com'. Pre-emptive Slashdot Editor protection! :-)
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Does anyone want to bother looking up the term hologram in the dictionary....when I think of a holographic TV I don't think of a flat surface displayed onto a tangable object you could easily break if you breath on it the wrong way when it falls over.
When I think of a hologram I think of being able to throw my beer through my TV next time I see a horrible excuse of a football game...
When I first saw the headline, I was thinking that it was something that would display a pseudo 3D image that floats in the air, but even though Iw as disappointed when the site _eventually_ loaded, I have to admit that it is still pretty cool.
My only concern, and ultimately the only reason I won't buy one (hehehe like I could) is that it takes up too much space. I don't really have the space to put the projector as far back as it needs to be and those speakers.... I'd look like one of the little bad guys in HALO
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Harrods discreetly engraved on the glass...
Wow these guys are snooty!
You can get TV on televisions, and not just DVDs? What will they think of next...
On the other hand, I do agree on one point - fifteen grand just for a TV?! I'd rather have my house extended/refurbished/whatever... Then again, I'm not the sort of person who can afford 15k on anything, let alone a TV.
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Wow. Do we really talk like this? No wonder my wife never understands what I'm saying.
"hey Fred, if we get rid of the big box surrounding these old rear projection tv's, Jack the price way up and call em something fancy, I'll bet we can finally sell these things off"
"Great Idea Barney! Let's call 'em 'Hollow Graphic'. No! No! Wait! I got it Holographic! No one will know the difference!"
"Yea Fred there's a sucker born every minute."
"You got that right Barney. Now lets see what we can think up for all these foam tiles these old tv's came packed in."
"Wait a minute Fred! I already sold those to NASA as shuttle repair kits. You won't believe what they paid me for them!", Fred gives Barney a big High Five.
I think I've worked out the basic details of how this screen works from this link. The heart of the screen is a diffractive optical element, holographically-recorded on a thin photopolymer layer. Based on the range of acceptance angles, I think the element is the hologram of a 27-degree deviating prism. The viewing angle problem is solved by placing a weak diffuser (an example of a strong diffuser is frosted glass) on the viewing side, either in contact with or in close proximity to the diffractive optical element. The diffuser scatters the projected light over some relatively narrow range of angles (about 25 degrees, according to this link). The close proximity of the diffuser also takes care of the dispersion problem because it doesn't give the different colors much distance over which to spread out, and that spread is masked by the angular spread introduced by the diffuser.
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Maybe they could put a continuous banner ad above and below the display and then give these TVs away for free!
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