Panasonic has come up with a new TV that is transparent when it is off. It looks like any other glass front for a display when off but with the wave of an arm or the push of the button to turn the TV on that brings it to life with a crystal clear image. The TV has other uses. It can be used as a jukebox or you can call up the weather or recipes or any one of a thousand things.
Panasonic has finally overcome the problem they had with it’s original attempts at a transparent TV. The first prototypes still showed tinted glass.
TVS PROMISE SHARPER COLORS, BUT NOT MUCH TO WATCH
For years, TV makers have focused on making pictures sharper by squeezing more pixels onto screens.
Now, their attention is shifting to improving the way sets display color, with a newish technology called HDR taking center stage.
HDR, or high dynamic range, promises brighter whites, darker blacks, and a richer range of colors — at least when you’re watching the few select movie titles that get released in the format.
Trouble is, there aren’t all that many of those yet, and other HDR viewing options are likely to remain scarce for the immediate future.
Even worse, there are likely to be several different flavors of HDR, just to keep TV buyers on their toes.
To date, there have been only a handful of releases, including ‘The Martian’ and Amazon’s original series ‘Mozart in the Jungle.’
More are coming, and Netflix aims to join Amazon this year in streaming some HDR titles, but getting an HDR-ready set still mostly means preparing for the future.