The LG 105UB9 announcement shot first, and Samsung's counterstrike is so far known only as the "105-inch Curved UHD TV". It doesn't have a model number and, shockingly, it doesn't even have an extra inch over its mortal adversary.
Apparently desperate to differentiate its huge TV from LG's equally huge TV, Samsung's press release only manages the descriptor "most curved."
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The titanic Samsung has a screen with a 21:9 aspect ratio, a closer match to ultra-wide-screen movies than to standard 16:9 HDTV shows. The 58-inch Vizio XVT3D580CM from 2012 is the only other 21:9 TV to hit the U.S. market.
As a result of its wider shape, the screen also has a higher native resolution than most 4K/UHD TVs: 5,120x2,160. That's 11 million pixels and change.
Like LG, Samsung hasn't revealed a price. Pipsqueak 84- and 85-inch 4K sets range from $16K to $40K, so I'm guessing the monumental Samsung will cost at least $80,000.
Samsung will debut its elephantine TV at the Consumer Electronics Show, which begins January 7.
Source : CNET
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