Tuesday, January 06, 2026

New OLEDs and monster-sized ZOO TV screens

 https://www.techradar.com/televisions/embargoed-5th-jan-3am-gmt-samsung-reveals-upgraded-oled-tvs-super-sized-screens-and-a-new-lifestyle-projector-at-ces-2026 

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/most-exciting-tvs-at-ces-2026/

https://www.techradar.com/televisions/lg-announces-the-lg-oled-evo-g6-tv-at-ces-2026-20-percent-brighter-lower-reflections-and-the-worlds-first-with-4k-120hz-cloud-gaming 

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-tvs

https://www.techradar.com/televisions/samsungs-next-gen-oled-tvs-leak-including-a-mysterious-new-elite-model 

https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/best-tv 

From flat and curved screens to holographic technology.

https://inairspace.com/blogs/learn-with-inair/holographic-tv-the-future-of-entertainment-is-here-and-its-changing-everything 

https://www.realfiction.com/project-echo , https://www.realfiction.com/holographic-displays 

https://www.realfiction.com/what-is-dpt 

https://www.holoconnects.com/news/exploring-hologram-technology  

In the 1950s-and-1960s, people started to have their living room also be their TV room. 

https://www.vintag.es/2021/07/1950s-living-rooms.html However, they might also opt to have a TV den. Expecting to have a TV in a hotel room or suite became commonplace. Of course the TVs were small, nowhere near the size of a window, door or wall. 

Decades before the concept of the Holodeck, Ray Bradbury thought up a sort of adventure room with 3D printed Lions, Tigers_and_Bears, or whatever other creatures, depending upon the setting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_(1950 short_story) 

The_Veldt was somewhere in-between-augmented-reality-and-mixed-reality and VR.  

https://interestingliterature.com/2022/06/ray-bradbury-the-veldt-summary-analysis

The Future of Entertainment Holograms, AI Actors, and Beyond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA8T95CbNA0 Of course the tech still isn't quite there yet, but at a certain point, things just might become indistinguishable from the-real-thing

Several years before the release of the first MATRIX movie in 1999, U2 unleashed their version of the ZOO-TV MATRIX.

U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing 

U2 - The Fly 

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