Does Size Really Matter?
That loud, heavy sighing/cooing/squeal of delight noise you hear this morning is coming from every single guy in America as he reads the following article:
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Matsushita to sell record 103-inch plasma TVs
TOKYO (Reuters) - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., the maker of Panasonic brand electronics, said on Monday it hoped to start selling the world's largest plasma television by early next year.
Measuring 2.4 meters by 1.4 meters and weighing 215 kg, the 103-inch panel is bigger than a double-sized mattress and almost as heavy as an upright piano.
The world's largest consumer electronics maker has yet to set the price but Matsushita's 65-inch plasma TVs, its largest available now, sell for about $7,500 in Japan.
The new panels will meet full high-definition specifications, meaning they can produce images at the highest standard of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels of resolution.
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Wow. A 103-inch television set. Makes you tingle in all sorts of places just thinking about it, doesn’t it?
There are, however, two major obstacles to my Home Electronics Bigger is Better theory. One is the $7,500 price tag. Ouch. Even if I had $8 grand lying around to drop on home electronics, I would have a hard time spending that much cash on a TV. (Tightwad at heart, I know.)
Problem #2 is the fact that I really don’t have anywhere in my house to put a television of that size. Oh, sure – I suppose if the Lovely Mrs. G. were to somehow lose all sense of reason and allowed me to cut a hole in the wall, I may be able to slip the mega-set into our living room.
Of course, there’d be no place to sit, much less walk around the behemoth, and the 5:1 surround sound speakers would probably have to be mounted on the roof outside, but it could work. Theoretically, at least.
Still, it’d be fun to show off to your buddies. Just to watch them turn green with envy would be worth the investment.
So maybe someday I’ll find a way to get a giant television in through my front door. By then the average size plasma TV will probably be 400 inches, anyway.
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Matsushita to sell record 103-inch plasma TVs
TOKYO (Reuters) - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., the maker of Panasonic brand electronics, said on Monday it hoped to start selling the world's largest plasma television by early next year.
Measuring 2.4 meters by 1.4 meters and weighing 215 kg, the 103-inch panel is bigger than a double-sized mattress and almost as heavy as an upright piano.
The world's largest consumer electronics maker has yet to set the price but Matsushita's 65-inch plasma TVs, its largest available now, sell for about $7,500 in Japan.
The new panels will meet full high-definition specifications, meaning they can produce images at the highest standard of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels of resolution.
* * * * * *
Wow. A 103-inch television set. Makes you tingle in all sorts of places just thinking about it, doesn’t it?
There are, however, two major obstacles to my Home Electronics Bigger is Better theory. One is the $7,500 price tag. Ouch. Even if I had $8 grand lying around to drop on home electronics, I would have a hard time spending that much cash on a TV. (Tightwad at heart, I know.)
Problem #2 is the fact that I really don’t have anywhere in my house to put a television of that size. Oh, sure – I suppose if the Lovely Mrs. G. were to somehow lose all sense of reason and allowed me to cut a hole in the wall, I may be able to slip the mega-set into our living room.
Of course, there’d be no place to sit, much less walk around the behemoth, and the 5:1 surround sound speakers would probably have to be mounted on the roof outside, but it could work. Theoretically, at least.
Still, it’d be fun to show off to your buddies. Just to watch them turn green with envy would be worth the investment.
So maybe someday I’ll find a way to get a giant television in through my front door. By then the average size plasma TV will probably be 400 inches, anyway.
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8:48 AM
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