LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000

Posted by Unknown on Thursday October 25, 2012 @07:11PM from the pixels-worth-more-than-latinum dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LG held a big launch party today for its highly anticipated 84-inch Ultra HD TV. The launch was held at Video & Audio Center in the L.A. area, which sold six sets within two hours. The MSRP had been set at $19,999 but we now know the street price: $16,999. 'My wife would rather I waited,' said one of the buyers." The article claims a couple of times that "Ultra HD 4K" has ~4000 vertical lines of resolution, but that's not true: the (unimplemented?) 8K spec is the one with 4320 lines of resolution confusingly enough. In any case, that's a lot of pixels. Maybe this means we'll finally see computer monitors break through the "HDTVs are the dominant consumers of LCD panels" barrier of 1920x1080.

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Re:the 3D is amazing! by lxs · 2012-10-25 19:39 · Score: 5, Funny

Let me be the first to welcome the LG marketing department to the thread.
Keep up the good work guys!
Re:Go outside by Neil+Boekend · 2012-10-25 21:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Outside lacks Iron Man and other awesomeness. Until they fix that in 2.0 I am not using it.

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