Oh man, this is it, the TV I've been waiting for, the "I want it ALL" of home theater goodness, too bad it costs $texas. Rolling in at a staggering $77k per, Samsung has built a 82-inch tv with an integrated computer.
Meant for commercial applications and not the average consumer, this baby uses an AMD dual-core Athlon64, 4GB flash storage, 1/2 GB DDR2 RAM, ATI chipset, and Windows XPe to enable it to be a fully functional display capable of running small apps geared toward its viewing audience.
What gets me hyped is to see this even be produced, as it lends hope to these types of displays one day making it into the livingroom. It's not hard to fathom a 46" LCD sporting a single tuner and 5 HDMI inputs, coupled with USB/SD/MMC inputs, a fast processor, 4GB flash RAM, and 64GB flash storage using an embedded MCE OS. While the price today would still be close to $texas, by the time (2011?) it could be moved into mass production, I could see it down to a MSRP of $3500 or so. That could be well worth it to have a streamlined solution for having a media PC integrated into the home theater. The capability to utilize any and all direct internet viewing/downloading services (Netflix, iTunes, Unbox), built-in DVR capabilities (Tivo), and instant access to pictures, videos, etc loaded on external flash memory....it's too much, my head will explode.
All in all, I'm sure something else will come along between now and then, and I won't be able to afford that either. But until cool devices like this become available at every movie theater across the country, I'd rather stay at home and get all of my entertainment in one place, and it be freaking sweet to boot.
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Dave - I am pleased to see that you have announced to the world about the nefarious ilk that will soon be deported from Canada back to his native US soil. It was a very arduous task to catch him, but well worth the effort.
Watch out...he's a shifty one...!
I fell in love with the platinum TVs, but hearing this is even more exciting. I must admit the price was scarry. But as everything does, it has to come down. Maybe one day we'll be sitting in our livingrooms looking at the TV.
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