Not to be left out of the fun, Sony has just announced its own curved TV debut, the Bravia S90, ahead of the IFA 2014 trade show.
The new 4K TV sports a huge 65-inch and 75-inch screens with native 4K resolutions bending gently back to deliver Sony’s take on sort of concave screen format pioneered by LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics, though S90’s less dramatic. But hey! Ain’t that better? That means you can watch them from a wider angle without their images starting to look excessively foreshortened or distorted.
Sony has cleverly integrated a multi-angle speaker array into the S90s’ curved left and right edges that bounces the TV’s sound off your room’s walls to produce what seemed during my demo to be a remarkably convincing ‘pseudo surround sound’ performance.
Sony’s new curved 4K sets will compete directly against Samsung’s HU9000 line of curved 4K TVs, which sell for $4,300 at 65 inches and a cool $8,000 at 78 inches. The equivalent UK model is the HU8500, which will set you back £4,000 for the 65-inch model and £6,500 for the 78, while in Australia the HU9000 line starts at around AU$5,000. They’re not cheap, is what we’re saying… 😉
Source: Cnet.com