Samsung TV - Page 3

Posted by Chuck on October 4, 2009, 3:50 pm

Tony Hwang wrote:

> Mark wrote:

>>> I don't mean to be a jerk, this is a serious question. Could you do me
>>> a favor and ask your brother why in the hell he would WANT his TV
>>> frame to light up? This has baffled me since the first time I saw a
>>> commercial for one...

>> My Samsung has a light in the bottom of the frame that casts a small
>> light down onto the base. But it is programmable -always on/ on when
>> tv is on/ always off. I found it distracting and programmed it off.
>> I agree, my brother's TV has a silver frame around the screen and I
>> find it more distracting than my Sharp that has a plain black frame.

> Hi,
> Our old Panasonic had silver frame. New Panasonic has piano black smooth
> frame which we like better.

A long time ago we had a Sylvania tv set. It had a feature called Halo
Light. A faint glow around the pix tube and built into the frame.
Didn't do much for me.

Posted by aemeijers on October 4, 2009, 4:31 pm

Chuck wrote:

> Tony Hwang wrote:

>> Mark wrote:

>>>> I don't mean to be a jerk, this is a serious question. Could you do me
>>>> a favor and ask your brother why in the hell he would WANT his TV
>>>> frame to light up? This has baffled me since the first time I saw a
>>>> commercial for one...
>>> My Samsung has a light in the bottom of the frame that casts a small
>>> light down onto the base. But it is programmable -always on/ on when
>>> tv is on/ always off. I found it distracting and programmed it off.
>>> I agree, my brother's TV has a silver frame around the screen and I
>>> find it more distracting than my Sharp that has a plain black frame.

>> Hi,
>> Our old Panasonic had silver frame. New Panasonic has piano black
>> smooth frame which we like better.

>
> A long time ago we had a Sylvania tv set. It had a feature called Halo
> Light. A faint glow around the pix tube and built into the frame. Didn't
> do much for me.

Chuckle. The computer screen gives enough ambient light for me to
navigate around the room when the TV is on.

Other than pitch from the interior designers who thought it looked cool,
I think the theory was that it was tiring to watch a screen in a dark
room, because your eyes were constantly trying to see stuff in the dark
part of the room as well. Traditionally, this was handled by turning on
a small light elsewhere in the room, or dimming the overhead lights if
they had a dimmer. With some flat screens, especially the kewl shiny
ones, that leads to annoying reflections. A non-point source to the side
of the screen avoids those problems. This is a cousin to the traditional
office problem of glare on the computer screens at work, or glare from
the overhead lights making the POS terminal in a store impossible to
read. (The pharmacy counter at my drug store is like that, since the
terminal lays flat on the counter.)

In my family's 1956 house, my father put a band of blond hardwood
around the top of the drapes on the picture window, and a couple of
single-bulb flourescents behind it, so they would bounce off the ceiling
and the closed drapes. Very effective. A common technique in that era-
not sure why it died out. Probably have to be real careful about
dimensions and layout to keep from setting the drapes on fire, I guess.
I haven't seen room lights like that in decades. I miss the late-50's
modern look.

--
aem sends...

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