Foldable TVs. Because oh...why not?

[Amaris]

You might if you could unroll it, and hang it on your wall in any part of the house.

Sounds like a hassle to me.

GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

Jumps all over Bill[]/b]'s grass.

As for myself, I have a 32" 720p TV, and I love it to pieces. I remember the day I got it; The first thing I did was watch all of the classic Star Trek films, so that I could finally see them "on the big screen."

 

[BillJ]

I never could get into watching TV on a portable device. My wife and kids all do it. I'm just stuck in the past, I guess.

 

[BillJ]

As for myself, I have a 32" 720p TV, and I love it to pieces. I remember the day I got it; The first thing I did was watch all of the classic Star Trek films, so that I could finally see them "on the big screen."

I used Star Trek III to calibrate my 50" 4K TV. It was quite the experience, especially once I got everything set the way I wanted it.

 

[Kor]

I have an easy solution for you if you don't like those things: don't do them. No one is taking your big screen TVs or vinyl records away.

I will take that suggestion under advisement.

Kor

 

[Amaris]

As for myself, I have a 32" 720p TV, and I love it to pieces. I remember the day I got it; The first thing I did was watch all of the classic Star Trek films, so that I could finally see them "on the big screen."

I used Star Trek III to calibrate my 50" 4K TV. It was quite the experience, especially once I got everything set the way I wanted it.

That sounds awesome!

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I am up for foldable TV's because at present i have a heavy 60in plasma, and if i try to move it the only thing that folds is my back. lol

 

[publiusr]

The return of the scroll.

Call it... The M-Brane

 

[Amaris]

I never could get into watching TV on a portable device. My wife and kids all do it. I'm just stuck in the past, I guess.

I was going to reply to this and never did. I'm the same way about movies and TV. I can watch short videos, but I can't watch TV on my Windows phone. The screen is large enough for most things, but if I want to watch a movie, the base size I can accept is my 19" monitor. Then it goes up from there.

My niece and nephew? They'll watch hours of TV and movies on my tablet, and my phone, and it won't affect them one bit. I just can't do it. I've tried. I get restless after about ten minutes.

 

[RAMA]

samsung promotional video:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZ5JDEv9_g[/yt]

 

[LadyT'Anna]

Interesting. Seems to me like laptops are getting pretty dinged close to foldable TVs these days, but I have a visual impairment and am therefore not the best person to judge--large monitors, here I come! I tried watching Netflix (my TV substitute) on a tablet once, but after 5 minutes I gave up. It might as well have been a radio show.

(saith the antediluvian)

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Makes me think of those folding screens in Red Planet. They had a cylinder from which you pull out the screen which looked like mylar on the back and it bended and folded while displaying clear images. Looked neat.

But I wouldn't want that all the time. Hell no I love my 50 inch screen... Have you seen how glorious a PC is on a huge plasma?

BTW what is amusing is watching how GLUED to their devices people of today are. Guy on the road yesterday glued to his phone walks across the road and nearly gets cleaned up by a bus. That's what some people are like today. It's amusing.

 

[HIjol]

<respectful snip>


This. I've went from 25" to 32" to 40" to 50" over the last fifteen years.

Hmmm...if I were to go all the way back, I have gone from about 4 cm to 2" to 4" to 6" (generous, and probably lying) over the last 58 years...

There are likely a ton of uses for displays that are foldable, rollable, and flexible that can be stored away.

This is exactly what my Numerology Horoscope Thingy says about me! Wow! They really are true!

 

[HIjol]

Interesting. Seems to me like laptops are getting pretty dinged close to foldable TVs these days, but I have a visual impairment and am therefore not the best person to judge--large monitors, here I come! I tried watching Netflix (my TV substitute) on a tablet once, but after 5 minutes I gave up. It might as well have been a radio show.

(saith the antediluvian)

"antediluvian"!

Your next Avatar? Aunti Diluvian?

 

[publiusr]

samsung promotional video:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZ5JDEv9_g[/yt]

I'm an idiot--I've been calling those screens amoloids

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

BTW what is amusing is watching how GLUED to their devices people of today are. Guy on the road yesterday glued to his phone walks across the road and nearly gets cleaned up by a bus. That's what some people are like today. It's amusing.

People used to be glued to newspapers and magazines. Now it's smartphones and iPads. The gluing itself will always be there; it's just what people are glued TO that changes.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

BTW what is amusing is watching how GLUED to their devices people of today are. Guy on the road yesterday glued to his phone walks across the road and nearly gets cleaned up by a bus. That's what some people are like today. It's amusing.

People used to be glued to newspapers and magazines. Now it's smartphones and iPads. The gluing itself will always be there; it's just what people are glued TO that changes.

That is most correct..

BTW Toshiba had a roll up TV prototype 15 years ago. So why isn't this a thing now?

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

BTW what is amusing is watching how GLUED to their devices people of today are. Guy on the road yesterday glued to his phone walks across the road and nearly gets cleaned up by a bus. That's what some people are like today. It's amusing.

People used to be glued to newspapers and magazines. Now it's smartphones and iPads. The gluing itself will always be there; it's just what people are glued TO that changes.

That is most correct..

BTW Toshiba had a roll up TV prototype 15 years ago. So why isn't this a thing now?

Emphasis mine.

Some technologies take a while to mature. It took 40-50 years from the invention of pulse jets before jet aircraft were a thing that happened.