Yes! 103" Plasma TV - Panasonic - $50,000

[leftyladyfrommo]

Here you go. Get your orders in early. Will come out in September.

Big as a double mattress and as heavy as a piano.

(I have a 13" TV, no cable, and I hardly ever watch it)

Heres the link if I can get it to work.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=3965128&in_page_id=1770

[htuttle]

1. The 'Family Truckster' of televisions

[warrens]

2. I'll take three

Gotta have one in the bedroom and bathroom too, doncha know.

[ComerPerro]

3. Will the Republicans pass a huge tax break for people who buy this?

[Bretttido]

6. Yes, it will be categorized under "Industrial Lightbulb"

[Robb]

19. Ha!

:D

[lpbk2713]

4. Talk about hugh!!!11!

This makes for some series TV watching.



:eyes: :tv: :eyes:

[RedStateShame]

5. Yeah, take that, books!!!

[salinen]

7. I have relatives

who probably will

[EmmitFitzhume]

10. The only way to watch

the world fall apart is on a 103 inch, $50,000 plasma tv. Unreal.

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. Think how big your TV room would have to be

I would have to put this half way up my backyard. I wonder if they are waterproof?

[Touchdown]

31. Not that big anymore.

High Def cuts the seating distance to 1/3 of what old square TVs used to need. 14 feet away, at most. Movie screens are big for a reason. You are supposed to be immersed in the story. Thinking that people will buy this for Chris Matthews is just stupid.

[unpossibles]

8. better link

http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6092429-1.html

this is silly, imo. my old TV does fine.

[longship]

9. The HumVee of televisions

Or...

The NeoCon of telvisions.
Optimized for Fox News, bigger than life.

Wretched excess

[datadiva]

11. I would never buy Panasonic

They do not stand behind their products. Personal experience.

[OwnedByFerrets]

12. Thats about as stupid

as buying a Hummer for each day of the week. You can get a front projection unit that will give you a larger picture than that and still get fantastic images for less than $2000. And, like hummers, this must be for people with small pee pee's. I'm jus sayin!;-)

[Rosemary2205]

14. Hey, don't laugh people.

There's more than one man in America that dreams of owning one of those gigantic screens like the sports bars and ballparks have. My husband included.

[idgiehkt]

15. I'd have to live in it.

I could buy a decent used trailer for that. (I'm not kidding).

[Rosemary2205]

16. My singlewide on the lake

cost me less including the lot.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. There Is An Even Bigger One

I saw it on that Discovery show Megastructures or Megahouses, or something. It's high def, so it has a 16 by 9 aspect ratio, and is, in fact, 16 feet by 9 feet! Yep!

The TV is a plasma monitor that measures 192 inches across, by 108 inches down, or a diagonal of (Drum rollllllllllllllllllllllll) 220.29 inches!

That part i remember for sure. IIRC, it was a $300k television. Could have been more though. It was fully installed in some giant house that had it's home "perfect" entertainment room. Acoustically corrected, properly lit, built in speakers, true THX sound, etc. The whole deal was more than a million bucks.
The Professor

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. So where would you put this?

Seems like you would have to have an in-home movie theater. If you have that kind of money it would be kind of fun to be able to watch movies in the house on a big screen.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Me??? I Don't Have Any Room Big Enough

My wife and i have a small house! There is no wall in the entire house that is 16 feet long, except for the front wall of the living room, and the windows are there!

Also, i only have 8 foot ceilings. So, the top foot of the TV would have to stick through the plasterboard!

But, yeah; it would be great fun to have the system. I'm about $960,000 short though.
The Professor

[Swamp Rat]

20. Great for watching mass murder and genocide, the new Amerikkan pastime.

[leftyladyfrommo]

22. Great - in huge living color

[AlCzervik]

21. i bet many will be purchased by hotels in Vegas for sports betting

[leftyladyfrommo]

23. Yea - that makes sense.

It would be perfect for places like that.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Or, Just The Mega Sports Bars

Some of those places are enormous! Have 40 TV's going at once, and stuff.
The Professor

[AlCzervik]

26. the local BJ's brewhouse has them all over the place which was

pretty cool during world cup soccer.

[jmowreader]

27. There are a lot of good reasons for a 103" plasma

First is the boardroom market. This thing is a little over 8 feet on the diagonal. That sounds huge, and for a home television it is, but it's about the right size for a boardroom projector. Many large corporations have boardroom projectors that large--and right now, they're all projectors. You either do front-projection, which means dimming the overhead lights, or rear-projection, which means sacrificing a large hunk of real estate to service the machinery. Rear-projection users can expand their boardrooms and front-projection users can leave the lights on.

Second is retail. Every mall in America will want some of these.

Education? A little pricy, but why not? Especially at the grad school level.

Oh...and how big's a Diamondtron? These look pretty good for hockey arenas and basketball stadiums.

Someone's going to have one in their home just to say they do, but I think that if you're going for the Real Cost Be Damned Home Theatre Experience, a Barco ELM-12 projector would work better for less money. Movies are made to be projected, not watched on TV.

[zonkers]

28. And is your 13 " a goldstar? But you have to admit to go from that to the

Panasonic would be awesome.

[leftyladyfrommo]

33. Actually, I love to watch plasma TV.

I love the pictures.

[Touchdown]

29. Not to rain on HT basher's parade here, but...

There is a market called HOME THEATER out there. To replicate the experience of being in a theater at home.

Forrest Gump was a good movie. Wanna go? We can't, because it's not playing on the big screen anymore. Hence HT. Now you can watch it when you want, not when the local arthouse has a retrospective.

This is not about watching Faux News, Dr. Phil or even poor picture quality Jon Stewart, who's Comedy Central won't go High Def. This piece of equipment is made for those who love the cinema, and all that it comes with. Yeah, there's "death and mayhem", but there's also love, mystery, inspiration etc. It's an artform. How many here wouldn't think twice about buying a 20' painting for their 750 sq ft apt? To have that in an experience as the original artists intended their work to be seen (not on some insulting to the artform square 13" made by 12 year old girls getting raped from Korea TV), and to be able to do that whenever you want is a luxury most can't afford, true, but it uses no gas, and it costs less than a Hummer, so the comparison is ridiculous. The only thing you can't do with this TV is park it in the driveway to show it off.

Think about this. Some people think nothing of buying a Lexus at $60,000, the obviously can afford it. They spend 20 minutes to an hour in it a day, but they watch TV, or movies for 3-4 hours a day. Which of these purchases is money better spent?

So you're not into Television. BFD! I'm not into Astral Projection, or pot smoking. I'd rather spend $50,000 (If I had it) on something like this that will last me 10 years, than $80,000 over 10 years smoking that money away.

[Maiden England]

30. Oh the 'Situation Room' would look AWESOME on that !!!!1!!!

:sarcasm:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

32. If I was rich, I would buy it.