{"id":20163,"date":"2013-06-27T23:42:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=20163"},"modified":"2013-06-27T23:42:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:42:35","slug":"samsung-launches-a-tv-with-a-curved-screen-to-improve-viewing-quality-but-itll-set-you-back-85000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=20163","title":{"rendered":"Samsung launches a TV with a CURVED screen to improve viewing quality &#8211; but it&#8217;ll set you back \u00a38,5000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/samsung-TV3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20160\" alt=\"samsung TV3\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/samsung-TV3.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/samsung-TV3.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/samsung-TV3-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/samsung-TV3-483x300.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Samsung has officially launched its first super-thin curved TV screen with a price tag of \u00a38,500 ($13,000) &#8211; five times more than its flat-screen equivalents.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-inch model has a high-resolution OLED display and its design means the screen is an equal distance from the viewer at all times.<\/p>\n<p>It is now on sale in South Korea but Samsung told Reuters the set will be made available in other countries from July &#8211; the first time a curved TV of its kind has been sold outside of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>It also said it has no plans to offer a non-curved one this year.<\/p>\n<p>The concave display gives viewers a sense of being immersed in the images.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung claims its &#8216;Timeless Arena&#8217; design reduces the chance of images appearing pixelated, too.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-inch OLED screen also supports Samsung TV features such as multi-view that lets two people watch different things at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>But mass producing OLED displays still faces many challenges, leading to high prices.<\/p>\n<p>LG, which currently offers both curved and non-curved 55-inch screens, is estimated to have only sold a few hundred screens so far after starting sales earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has officially launched its first super-thin curved TV screen with a price tag of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}