Samsung’s 146-Inch TV Is So Big, It’s Called ‘The Wall’

It seems TV screens are getting bigger every year and Samsung just upped the ante by showing off a new set that it is calling “The Wall” during the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show. At 146 inches, this TV is officially a monster of a product in a market where size is a huge part of the deal. Apparently, the unit also has a new kind of technology called “Modular MicroLED,” which Samsung is confident will be the future of TV.

Most other big-screen TVs with all the usual fares of high-resolution viewing stop at around 60 inches, give or take a few inches in difference. “The Wall” absolutely dwarfs these units by being more than twice the size. Its humongous width is already intimidating enough, but Samsung apparently just used this as a springboard for a new screen technology it’s working on, Business Insider reports.

Called the “Modular MicroLED,” it almost sounds as if Samsung just decided to jumble a few cool-sounding words together. However, according to the company’s explanation, the MicroLED part means the unit “is a self-emitting TV with micrometer-scale LEDs — which are much smaller than current LEDs, and serve as their own source of light."

Basically, this means that most viewers wouldn’t need a backlight to clearly see what’s going on. As for what makes “The Wall” modular, it can apparently be customized based on the customers’ preferences.

As ridiculous as it may sound, this TV can supposedly become bigger than the 146 inches showcased during CES. It can also get smaller, but that doesn’t sound nearly as frightening as the prospect of having a flat screen TV bigger than an entire wall.

As Ars Technica notes, there have been a lot of weird product concepts showed off during the annual electronics event, but “The Wall” might seriously hit the market soon. If so, customers can expect to pay tens of thousands of dollars for the TV.