14 DAY TRIAL // With how many different monitors and TVs have made their appearance over the years, you may think you've seen it all, but the latest product from Samsung has quite handily thrashed that general consensus.
You see, Samsung has finally released a certain product that first surfaced at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2014) back in January. The product in question is the UN105S9W TV.
As is often the case, the name doesn't really tell us much. So for those who don't recognize the display, it is that large, 105-inch curved UHD TV that made all visitors boggle in wonder (or horrified fascination, as the case may be).
Now, Samsung has finally released the flagship TV and slapped it with a huge price for good measure. Or, rather, slapped potential buyers into stunned silence.
The 105-inch television set has a tag of $120,000, or €89,000, if, even after that revelation, you're still in control of sufficient mental faculties to care about exchange rates.
It's a real shame that the price in the EU is more likely to be of over €100,000, or maybe the full €120,000. That's how these things tend to go.
It's enough money to buy an average car thrice over, and more than sufficient for a luxury vehicle too. Yes, there are several that cost a lot more, but still, that's more money than most people make in a year.
Then again, Samsung was aiming for overkill, and it definitely achieved its goal. Even the display is wider than normal, with an aspect ratio of 21:9 instead of 16:9 / 16:10.
On that note, the resolution is not 3840 x 2160 pixels (as would be normal for an Ultra High Definition panel), but of 5120 x 2160 pixels.
Finally, the display is curved. Concave. It will somewhat reduce the field of view, but for something 2-meters wide, that's hardly a problem. It will take up an entire wall as it is and will give you lots of room to set a couch and some armchairs for movie nights.
And since it's a Smart TV, it can do loads of things that normal television sets can't, like run widgets, surf the web, that sort of thing. If you order one, a Samsung engineer will come over and walk you through everything.
You'll have to wait a bit before you get one though. Samsung is only accepting pre-orders for now. Probably because it doesn't want to prepare a stock and risk not selling all of it.