This article was originally published at Forbes.com.
If there was a CES 2015 award for Craziest TV That Actually Looks Likely To Go On Sale Eventually, it would surely have been won by Samsung for the 110-inch wide, 8K resolution monster posturing away in one corner of the Korean brand’s CES stand.
As well as being larger than most households could ever accommodate, offering four times as many pixels as the 4K/UHD TVs many consumers are only just starting to get their heads round and likely costing as much as a small house, this showboating sociopath rounds out its extreme story by providing a new generation of so-called glassesless 3D playback.
Being able to watch 3D on a TV without needing to wear glasses has long been seen as the latest – likely last – great white hope for 3D after the AV and movie industries have done such an outstanding job of destroying their own 3D dream. Yet no glasses-less 3D screen released to consumers to date has delivered anything other than horrible results.
Cue Samsung’s CES 2015 ‘star’. With its 8K native resolution it’s unprecedentedly well equipped to deliver the glasses-free 3D goods, given how such…
