Samsung's 70-inch LCD TV biggest yet to hit retail

Sure, those 100-inch LCDs are all well and good if your living room happens to encompass a large international tradeshow at all times, but if you'd prefer an LCD TV you can actually purchase and lug home for reals, Samsung's new 70-incher is your biggest option yet. They're busting out this monster in the first half of 2007, and are packing in all the niceties like a 2000:1 contrast ratio, a sub-8ms response time, 600 nits of brightness and of course a juicy 1080p resolution. The display bests the 65-incher from Sharp which currently holds the LCD throne, and Samsung will be showing it off at the upcoming International Meeting on Information Displays on the 23rd of this month -- where we doubt it will fail to impress.

[Via HD Beat, thanks Nandini]

[Perrey Z. @ Aug 21st 2006 9:40AM]

Will this make it to local and online retailers within the next 7-months? No. This is not news at all.

This is the same old story in a long tradition of Samsung announcements as "The world's biggest TV" theme., they show it up at trade shows with not-so-hot Asian girl{s} {Sorry they are not my cup of tea} with false promises, prices and production dates.

They earn the bragging size rights until LG-Philips, Sharp or Panasonic creates a 1-incher bigger set. And the same old story repeats or recycles itself over and over again., let's move on to companies that are news worthy, OK?!

[xzavier @ Aug 21st 2006 9:44AM]

Boy... how much power is that thing drawing?!?!

[Mike @ Aug 21st 2006 9:50AM]

Just buy a projector....

[Rasmus @ Aug 21st 2006 9:56AM]

Guessing something in the range of 500-1000 W perhaps? Probably not something you want on in a heatwave. Unless you are someone who actually can afford this TV. In that case I'm sure you already have air conditioning installed.

[Zero_ @ Aug 21st 2006 10:14AM]

Man 1: "Do you come with the TV?"
Woman: "Ohhh, you. *giggles*

Man 2: "Do you come with the TV?"
Woman: "Ohhh, you. *giggles*

[Matt E. @ Aug 21st 2006 10:59AM]

One arm, one leg.

[Jeff Hedglin @ Aug 21st 2006 11:06AM]

Back of the envelope power consumption calculation:

30 in LCD uses about 150W. 30in diag is 24x42.7 (if it is 16:9) which is 1025 sq in of area.

70 in LCD is 34.3x61 (assuming 16:9) which is 2093 sq in.

So this equates to something just over 300W of power.

HOWEVER, please note that power consumption for LCD's varies greatly by manufacturer, model and "viewing mode". So you might want to double the estimate for good measure.

[R3AL1Z3 @ Aug 21st 2006 11:26AM]

Soooo, What you're telling me, is I can watch mind-numbingly huge pr0n?

[Joe Mamma @ Aug 21st 2006 1:28PM]

I hope the production version displays more attractive yellows than this one. (I know, I'm going to hell)

[Billy @ Aug 21st 2006 2:22PM]

what about those 73" midsubishi TV's?

[jiblies @ Aug 21st 2006 3:30PM]

LCD power consumption does not increase linearly with size. The wider screens have much more resistance due to basic properties they are bound by. However, improvements are always being made, and likely samsung worked to keep the screen running safe.

[Gio - NYC @ Aug 21st 2006 4:57PM]

Its nice but I would be spending $18,000 for something that will be obselete in 1 year. + The 3 year Protection PLAN. I can use the money to buy me a nice Ride instead. NO THANKS SAMSUNG! The giant LCD cost 2x as much in Japan, thats why Samsung looks toward the U.S. for sales.

[DT @ Aug 21st 2006 5:58PM]

Sweet fancy Moses!

[JonnyRock @ Aug 22nd 2006 2:23AM]

It's cool and all, but a couple weeks ago ENGADGET posted that panasonic would sell a dozen or so of its 103 inch sets at about $20,000 a pop in December.

If this thing is coming out 2007 calendar year (not fiscal), then it looks like Samsung doesn't have nearly as much to brag about.

[J41M3 @ Aug 22nd 2006 1:07PM]

Cool! Now I can watch High Def television AND get a tan
at the same time!

Thanks Samsung! ;-)

[Dave @ Aug 22nd 2006 4:38PM]

It is pretty impressive, I also mentioned this amazing tv on my lame blog.

http://www.6toe.com

[Chakrisu @ Nov 11th 2007 12:25AM]

Mmm Fancy

[Brenda @ Dec 26th 2008 1:12PM]

Hard to buy usa tvs.. we should all start buying everything usa made.