Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/30/the-veldt.html
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Kind of neat; but will it burn that screen?
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In portrait mode could replace an actual window. Our bleak future is just around the corner.
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“Oh man, I think I just bricked my TV!”
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So during the ~30 minutes per day (if applicable, assuming similar weather conditions) that your lighting is identical to the moment you took the photo, it looks kinda-invisible. Hmm. Nah.
Edit: not to mention the effect being spoiled by any light sources causing some light reflection.
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I just paint the wall that my TV is mounted on black. Easy peasy.
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Won’t look very convincing at midnight.
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QLED screens aren’t particularly susceptible to burn in. Most modern displays don’t really burn in unless you keep it at max brightness on a single image for a loooong time. The days of CRT and plasma screens where channel bugs could burn in are kind of over. Samsung in particular has a 10-year burn in warranty on at least some of their QLED TVs (I say some because I haven’t checked for this particular model).
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on the other hand, the LG OLED screens are
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I foresee a comeback of those roach screensavers.
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Just what we need. Lots of people leaving their power-hungry large-screen televisions on so they can enjoy this silly gimmick.
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Well, this is stupid. I’m hanging the TV there to cover up giant hole in the wall. Now I’ve paid for an expensive TV and the hole is still showing. :-/
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Interesting gimmick but I prefer to cycle through high-res scans of paintings for those rare times the TV is on while I’m not watching anything.
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Complain complain. I think it’s awesome.
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I swear that in the early days of HD TV there was a real life version of The Scenery Channel – I remember a channel that mostly seemed to show aerial video of Scotland or Hawaii or what not to demonstrate how awesome HD resolution was.
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You didn’t accidentally have the feed from a CIA satellite, did you?
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Would be sweet to have a ghost screensaver to creep out your guests.
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There was The Landscape Channel even before that, back in the late 80s/early 90s. Same thing, and super good when you were high.
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