Sony Esprit TAV-L1 keeps your Bravia under wraps
By Marc Perton 
posted Feb 27th 2006 12:34AM
posted Feb 27th 2006 12:34AM
We still don't get the whole idea
behind people wanting to hide their LCD or
plasma sets. After all, if you're laying down a minimum of $2K for an HD, don't you want to show it off a little?
But we have to admit, if we were to play a little hide-and-seek with our set, something like Sony's Espirit TAV-L1 is
how we'd do it. The system takes a 32-inch Bravia LCD and hides it behind a form-fitting speaker grille, available in
black or white. Even when it's covered, the set's slot-loading CD player works, so you can use it for audio. Then, with
a flick of the remote, the grille slides down, revealing your LCD in all its glory. Needless to say, this bit of
space-age bachelor-pad swankiness doesn't come cheap; the setup is expected to go for about $7,000 when it becomes
available in May. We've done the math, and for that price, we'd rather get a 60-inch screen; if we need to hide it,
we'll just have to throw a curtain over it.[Via HD Beat]
Just because someone spends 2000USD on something doesn't mean they want to show it off like a prize; aesthetics and money are not inextricably linked, as any episode of Cribs will show you, and perhaps some people are more interested in having a nice-looking place than being ostentatious. Camel and the eye of a needle and all that. n00bz lol
i for one say horrible, pretty much anything else in the same price range is a better purchase than this odd novelty
Maybe it's more to protect the screen than to hide it. Looking at the picture, that's not hiding anything.
Two words.
Small Children.
Some of us can afford kids + LCD HD goodness but peanut butter covered hands of a two year old leave lovely prints on a screen. Something like that could keep them away.