Dulux feel lucky, punk? Samsung wades into paint world with interior emulsions designed to 'complement' your, er, TV You’ve got the TV. You splashed out on the sound system. But do you have the paint? That’s the question posed by Samsung, which just introduced LivingColour — a range of paint designed to cover the wall behind your pricey flat-screen idiot box. LivingColour is Samsung’s first line of interior paints, and was conceived with the …
Wrong way around marketing people. Make TV's in neutral colours that fit into different settings. will repaint my room / move house more times than I change my TV - or are you saying your TV's don't last very long ?
Also, most people stick stupidly large TV's in rooms that are small - since houses are getting smaller, so who actually has this problem of "background" anyhow ?
<sarc>
Second thought ... simply paint the TV surround to match the room
</sarc>
Ultimately televisions will end up with no bezel at all - they get smaller every year. That really only leaves the stand (if the set is not wall mounted) and the sound bar / speakers.
As for what the wall behind the television looks like, that depends upon the owner. To illuminate the room at low level, a lamp behind the TV is sensible as it can't cast reflections upon the screen. Then there's the people who like Phillips' TVs which illuminate the wall behind the TV in sympathy with the displayed video.
For watching TV during the day, buy Samsung. For watching movies in dark rooms, buy an OLED from LG or Sony. (Samsung's invention of the term QLED would appear designed purely to confuse consumers - it's just an LED set with a quantum dot filter).
For many home owners, their chief question is 'how can I make the television disappear when we're not watching it?' - a large black rectangle doesn't sit well with many decor schemes. Jony Ive used the term 'black mirror' when designing the 20th Anniversary Mac and was considering ways of hiding the screen when the computer was not in use.
Saying "just an LED set" is incredibly deceptive.
It's NOT a LED TV.
It's a LCD TV with a LED backlight. OLED and microLED are the only LED panels. Calling a LCD with a LED backlight instead of a CCFL backlight a LED TV is idiotic marketing wank.
QLED is marketing wank on top of marketing wank.
For some TV's, especially those you might by from the likes of Trotters Independent Traders, you need to have a brightish light in front of the TV, otherwise it might think you're lying in a dimly lit room and gradually turn down the brightness to nothing. Certain hotel chains in the USA buy sets from a two-initial company that do this, and I'm sure they'll find their way into the "secondary market" eventually, assuming they're not already sold across the counter at one of those friendly up-selling tech stores, on either side of the pond.
That's from Phillips, I can't remember the what they call it... ' AmbiLight' possibly. They also make a stand alone LED lighting strip, but it's pricey for what it is. It's not in TVs badges as Phillips sold in the USA - the name is licenced out there.
There are also instructions on Instructables for making a DIY version, probably involving an Arduino. The tricky bit is deciding the HDMI signal (through IIRC the SD part of the signal shouldn't be encrypted).
Yes its Ambilight. Even cleverer it'll hook into Philips Hue, and you can assign different bulbs to different positions on the TV frame, so you can throw Ambilight to cover the entire room, should you wish. It works well.
I did read they're opening the tech up to different manufacturers, which makes sense as to get the whole room effect you need to buy a Philips Hue Hub and associated bulbs.
Why not make the housing of semi transparent plastic and put LED's inside so the owner of the TV can adjust the colour of the TV set to match the room? It's been available on keyboards for quite some time now for no apparent reason. Surely it can be done for appliances as well. Another reason to make it IoT: adjust the appearance of your belongings from your smartphone before you leave $(PLACE).
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2025
