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Samsung 105-inch UHD TV Available for Pre-Order

SV Staff  |  Jul 22, 2014

Samsung today announced that the 105-inch 4K/Ultra HD it previewed at CES in January is now available for pre-order for $120,000. The largest TV of its kind, the model UN105S9W is built to order and features a curved screen mounted on a metallic frame, which can be removed for wall mounting.

The set’s 5120 x 2160 screen boasts 11 million pixels and features Samsung’s proprietary UHD Dimming and Precision Black processing, which is said to deliver deeper blacks and brighter whites. Other highlights include Quad Screen Multi-Link for displaying four screens at once—including live TV, streaming video and Web content—and a new five-panel version of Samsung’s quad-core-processor-powered Smart Hub platform.

The UN105S9W can be easily upgraded with the latest features using the Samsung UHD Evolution Kit, which is sold separately. The TV sports a wood finish on its back panel and can be wall-mounted using a specialty kit (sold separately).

Owners of the TV receive “Samsung Elite Service,” which includes an in-home visit by Samsung Field Engineers who optimize the TV for the viewing environment and present an overview of its features.

COMMENTS
Traveler's picture
Submitted by Traveler on July 22, 2014 - 5:24pm

Even at this size, does curving the screen make for a better viewing experience? It just seems to small to be of any use, and it has to make off axis viewing aweful.

notabadname's picture
Submitted by notabadname on July 23, 2014 - 11:10am

This TV or an Auti R8, or 2 of BMW's 5 Series? I get the unit cost, etc. But come on, simply silly.

jhwalker's picture
Submitted by jhwalker on July 23, 2014 - 1:34pm

. . . or, in my area, a new house (or two!)

railcadd's picture
Submitted by railcadd on July 23, 2014 - 2:10pm

Samsungs 105" resolution will be no better than my current Sharp 80" 1080p. For anyone to see a noticeable
difference in the fine background detail difference you would need a size screen of 152". By then 8K SUHD will be out by then when the screen sizes will increase. From 1080p fan.

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Submitted by CinemaDude on July 25, 2014 - 1:36am

At this price, you can purchase TWO of, say, JVC or Panasonic or any of the high-end, quality projectors, set them up for dual projection and you'd have great 2D and better yet, PASSIVE 3D (able to use the same 3D glasses that you get from the theatre when you pay $3 extra for a 3D movie - no batteries and light weight and much less light loss than active) and you could then buy a CURVED acoustically transparant screen even BIGGER than this puny 105in TV.

You would have enough cash left to throw in a motorized curtain track and CURTAINS just like the old movie palaces and you would have yourself a REAL home [i]THEATRE[/i]-- better looking than most multiplexes, instead of what you would get with this Samsung wannabe movie screen which, sorry to say, is still is just a big TV set. And hey, come to think of it, you would probably still have money left over to get your self an authentic theatre popcorn popper like this - http://www.concessionobsession.com/concession-equipment-home/benchmark-8....

Let's be real; if you want BIG, it means you are going for a real cinema experience and you can only get that in spades and with much more of a WOW factor by going PROJECTION rather than spending an insane about of moolah on what will always be a TV set. Plus, even for spending all those 120,000 dollars, you STILL can't put your center speaker system behind it like you should, especially as the size increases. It is even more important that your center channel be identical to left and right systems and should be behind the screen as should the left and right for that matter as it is done in ever single cinema in the WORLD (ever consider there's a reason they put the speaker system s BEHIND the screen, not on the sides and underneath it?).

What you need to do that is an acoustically transparent screen, and unless Samsung comes up a version of this 105in TV that has microperfs in it, your center channel will always be some skimpy cutdown version of a robust speaker system that you actually need and your decision on what to use will be based simply on what can fit underneat this behemoth of a TV screen. And then after spending your 401K and mortaging your house for this overpriced TV, you STILL will be complaining that you can't understand why the dialog gets lost in the music and the sound effects.

Sorry, IMHO, when you want to get the big cinema experience, you have to do what real cinemas do -- they do it with projectors, not TV sets.

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