Samsung's 40-inch 1080p LCD TV panel -- just 0.39-inches thin

With Sharp, Hitachi, and LG.Philips all announcing ultra-thin LCDs we were beginning to wonder, where's Samsung with their world's first / biggest / thinnest boasting? No more. Meet the 10-mm (0.39-inch) thin, 40-inch LED-backlit, Full HD LCD TV panel which covers 92% of the NTSC color gamut while consuming less than 90 watts of power. That profile easily bests the crazy thin measurements we've already seen. At the moment, however, no price or production run details are available. That could change on Wednesday when the panel goes on display at FPD International in Japan.

[Thusha @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:09AM]

Nice flat figures. both


http://www.mycars.me.com

[Japinator @ Oct 22nd 2007 7:01AM]

Flat figures?

Did you not notice the lady lumps attached to her torso?

[CKoz @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:27AM]

I dont know which I like better.... MMMmmmmmm

[robert @ Oct 24th 2007 11:07PM]

"We're gonna dance to one song, and one song only: "Lady Humps" by the Blackeyed Peas. 'What you gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside your trunk? I’m a get you, get you drunk, get you drunk off my lady humps, my humps, my humps, my lovely lady humps.'"
"I'm not skating to anything with references to lady humps. I don't even know what that means!"
"No one knows what it means, but it's provocative!"
"No, it's not, it's gross!"
"It gets the people going!"

[Syntax Error @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:19AM]

Amazing, but I can't say I like the stand on that TV.

The chick is a nice bonus, though. :]

[Matt @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:51PM]

That's not a TV, it's a panel. It goes inside a TV.

[EngadgetFanBoi @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:27PM]

Do they sell regular LCD panels exclusively? If so, where?

[CubeGuy @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:40AM]

I want this now.

[rH @ Oct 22nd 2007 6:32PM]

which one??

[CubeGuy @ Oct 22nd 2007 7:32PM]

The monitor. I already gots one of the others.

[Isindil @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:42AM]

Do want. Although the stand looks like crap, if I'd be in possession of one of those, I'd wall-mount it anyway.

[The Shaman @ Oct 22nd 2007 5:01AM]

I'd wall-mount both of them.

[bjorn_ahlm @ Oct 22nd 2007 5:15AM]

It's only a panel demo, not a full TV.

[Joe @ Oct 22nd 2007 7:14AM]

Good god, how wide is an HDMI connector?

[PJK @ Oct 22nd 2007 5:18AM]

You'd be able to mount that with some sello tape or pritt stick.

[Chris Aubeck @ Oct 22nd 2007 5:38AM]

The screen?

[Milamber @ Oct 22nd 2007 5:28AM]

Some hi-res links for the JavaScript challenged (or just plain lazy).

http://www.newswire.co.kr/nwboard/img_sub_view.php?id=113193&mem_id=123456+&picsize=big

http://www.newswire.co.kr/nwboard/img_sub_view.php?id=113194&mem_id=123456+&picsize=big

My first post to Engadget is a useful one, I feel.

[MyFirstMoniker @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:16AM]

Am I the only one who thinks that the picture within the TV frame has been photoshopped into it? When I look at the high res pictures it kinda looks funny, and the EXIF data for the pictures say "Creation software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows".

[daniel @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:28AM]

My First Moniker:

I think they use PS to add the image to the TV screen

[farfisa @ Oct 22nd 2007 9:27AM]

Yep, the screen image is photoshopped. And poorly.
Most product shots go through Photoshop at one point or another just to correct levels and colour, so looking at what software the pic went through isn't a smoking gun.
The tits are real though.

[NeilJ @ Oct 22nd 2007 6:47AM]

Can anyone clarify, when it says "92% of the NTSC colour gamut", is that good? Strikes me as being quite poor if it can't even display all the colours of an NTSC transmission, yet alone an HD signal but I openly admit I'm not technically knowledgeable enough in this area to really properly assess the performance of this tv.

[Willen @ Oct 22nd 2007 7:41AM]

NTSC color gamut is the maximum theoretical range of colors specified by the NTSC TV standards.

Typical CRT, LCD, and plasma TVs can produce about 70% of the NTSC color gamut, better ones may get close to 80%. Depending on the type of backlight used, a LCD display can produce a wider range of colors than traditional sets. Like many models that use a Wide Color Gamut Cold Cathode Florescent Light (WCG-CCFL), this LED-backlit unit can produce over 90% of NTSC color. Sony's Triluminous™ LED backlight (which is used in their Qualia and 70XBR3 models) can produce 105% of the NTSC color gamut.

[anonymous @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:29AM]

so, they are producing colors that don't exist?

[N30 G30 @ Oct 22nd 2007 5:55AM]

That is pretty cool but isn't there such a thing as too thin?

I feel like this thing shouldn't be in households with kids running around.

[Revels @ Oct 22nd 2007 6:05AM]

If you have kids you can't afford this TV ;)

[Andir3.0 @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:07PM]

Unless your kids work for cash...

[Jay Shah @ Oct 22nd 2007 6:37AM]

It will probably have a case built around it with all the gizmos needed to process the tv signals and speakers etc. Will result in a smaller tv than currently available though

[Japinator @ Oct 22nd 2007 6:58AM]

That TV gave me a raging hard-on!!

[Rynth @ Oct 22nd 2007 7:03AM]

I don't know about the TV, but the chick standing next to it...

[Bill @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:24AM]

If just the TV gives you a willy, you might need to reanalyze your priorities...

[John Doe. @ Oct 22nd 2007 12:36PM]

Women come and go. Tech love lasts.....er..umm for 6 months?

[Andir3.0 @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:08PM]

"Tech love lasts.....er..umm for 6 months?"

So woman and tech aren't that much different!

[franzbonus @ Oct 22nd 2007 7:08AM]

That thing is too thin... I feel it would break if misused.

Now about that monitor... hmm...

[Blu-Sam @ Oct 22nd 2007 9:22AM]

it could blend, probably not great.

[anonymous @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:30AM]

well, your not supposed to screw on it. hang it on the wall and leave the damn thing alone! Pervert!

[sam lamp @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:12AM]

That is just soo sexy and cool! I love the look!

[chris.kozanecki @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:30AM]

Its actually normal for any advertizer to photoshop a "simulated" image because its near impossible to capture a good screen (especially in HD) because cameras pick up the refresh of the screen where our eyes filter that out.

[Anthony @ Oct 22nd 2007 9:14AM]

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details.php?id=936

there is the wallpaper they are using

[ogvor @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:04AM]

WOW, Soon if you walk to fast past a TV, you'll knock it over!

[Alex Kirby @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:04AM]

Why would you want such a TV, u'd be sooo afraid it break, it would cost you a fortune and I dont think a couple of inches is space-saving

[Spanky @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:33AM]

well, until I can afford the panel, I'll just take one of the girls...

[Joe P @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:43AM]

It looks like you could cough on that and it would break.

[Alex @ Oct 23rd 2007 7:58AM]

HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL.

[HineyWipe @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:53AM]

Thickness..not thinness.

Oh, and enough of all those "I likem like mah women's chests, flat" jokes.

[zamir.evan @ Oct 22nd 2007 11:36AM]

The only things flatter than the panel (and model's chest) around here are the jokes - mine included.

[AceGoober @ Oct 22nd 2007 12:02PM]

I would love to have a TV that thin as long as it has all the component inputs / outputs that I require.

[hollowedOut @ Oct 22nd 2007 12:59PM]

Please please please stop using the word 'thin' to describe the thickness of something. If something is thin, it is thin by virtue of the fact that other things similar to it are thick. Its units of measurement describe its thickness. Saying something is .39 inches 'thin' sounds ridiculous. It's .39 inches thick. Does that make it thick? Certainly, compared to things that are thinner than that. Does that make it thin? Certainly, compared to things that are thicker.

Enough with this feel-good crap. It's just a word.

[Corndog @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:48PM]

Uhh.. chill, Bevis.

[LondonConsultant @ Oct 22nd 2007 3:45PM]

"thick"? "thin"? My vote is a return to ye goode olde TV dimensions of length, width and depth. So, it's "0.39 inches deep" in my olde worlde. And note that there's no hyphen either! My God, what is ye worlde coming to...

[waiownsyou @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:20PM]

Holy crap that's a thing model. Plus 92% gamut? T3H SWEETZ0R5