Sony Esprit TAV-L1 keeps your Bravia under wraps

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]

[Jesus @ Feb 27th 2006 1:24AM]

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

[sdwells @ Feb 27th 2006 1:47AM]

i for one say horrible, pretty much anything else in the same price range is a better purchase than this odd novelty

[guano @ Feb 27th 2006 2:43AM]

Maybe it's more to protect the screen than to hide it. Looking at the picture, that's not hiding anything.

[Tom Boucher @ Feb 27th 2006 8:46AM]

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.