What They Say
Yesterday we published a press release for Displace – a TV that ‘sticks to the wall’ using Displace TV’s ‘proprietary active-loop vacuum technology’ (Displace to Debut the World’s First Truly Wireless TV at CES 2023). The TVs are claimed as the first ‘truly wireless’ TVs and are based on 55″ OLEDs and can be combined to create 110″ tiled displays. The sets have multiple hot-swappable batteries that are said to last for a month at siz hours use per day. The firm highlighted the flexibility of being able to move them around.
The sets weigh 20lbs (9.1kg) and also respond to gesture control. The firm says that the the base unit of the TV uses an AMD CPU and an Nvidia GPU.
The sets will be shown at CES.
What We Think
Hmmm… First, lets debunk the ‘first wireless TV’ issue. There have been multiple battery and wireless TVs put on the market over a long period of time – I can think of models from LG and Sharp and at one time, it looked as though there might be some logic. There could still be. Renewable energy sources such as solar are less dependable than others, so having some battery capacity could be a good idea. However, there must be a calculation as to whether it makes more sense to have a single centralised battery rather than individual ones in devices.
While we’re on claims, the use of four tiled TVs is said to give 16K. Hmmmm…. I don’t think so. Four displays just gives 8K. If that’s the firm’s level of understanding, I would worry!
The other aspect that I can’t get my head around is the ‘it sticks to the wall with an active vacuum’. An active vacuum must get energy from somewhere – presumably the batteries? A 55″ 20lb/9kg glass sheet hung on ‘any’ wall by vacuum backed up by batteries – what could possibly go wrong???
Bah, humbug!!! (BR)
