So, I'm a bit on the fence of this OLED tech. Every display I see has a massive base, even though the screen is so thin. What's so great about it being thin if the base takes up 10 times the width of the display part?? It's not like you can hang that on the wall, which is what I'd like to do if I had a super thin display. Better yet, give me a tv that has a magnet on it that I can stick on my fridge, with a touchpad so I can pull it off after making dinner & surf the web on the couch, or take notes on in a meeting and then read a book on the plane. You can get the many possibilities of a thin display....
How come no one is answering this question? Or even dealing with it? Their is a MASSIVE base attached to this screen, just like the Sony OLED TV. You might as well by a CRT DPF. I understand the picture is excellent, but if there is no space savings as James describes then their is no $1000 premium. They are basing a LOT of the the marketing of this device on how thin it is, when it DOES NOT MATTER because the base is MASSIVE.
The tech is new yes, it carries a premium, yes, but if you are marking a device that takes up 5x or more space as an LCD as a "Super thin" device then something is wrong. It's the equivalent of marketing an "All in one super thin PC" as the lcd, and the tower is just the "Base" of the super thin all in one monitor/PC.
I would assume that it has a big base because it also contains integrated speakers, wi-fi and a web client capable of downloading photos from Flickr, etc.
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So, I'm a bit on the fence of this OLED tech. Every display I see has a massive base, even though the screen is so thin. What's so great about it being thin if the base takes up 10 times the width of the display part?? It's not like you can hang that on the wall, which is what I'd like to do if I had a super thin display. Better yet, give me a tv that has a magnet on it that I can stick on my fridge, with a touchpad so I can pull it off after making dinner & surf the web on the couch, or take notes on in a meeting and then read a book on the plane. You can get the many possibilities of a thin display....
How come no one is answering this question? Or even dealing with it? Their is a MASSIVE base attached to this screen, just like the Sony OLED TV. You might as well by a CRT DPF. I understand the picture is excellent, but if there is no space savings as James describes then their is no $1000 premium. They are basing a LOT of the the marketing of this device on how thin it is, when it DOES NOT MATTER because the base is MASSIVE.
The tech is new yes, it carries a premium, yes, but if you are marking a device that takes up 5x or more space as an LCD as a "Super thin" device then something is wrong. It's the equivalent of marketing an "All in one super thin PC" as the lcd, and the tower is just the "Base" of the super thin all in one monitor/PC.
Yeah Jon.
I think there must be some sort of Big Base Conspiracy.
All Your Base Belong to US!!
I would assume that it has a big base because it also contains integrated speakers, wi-fi and a web client capable of downloading photos from Flickr, etc.