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Samsung's new TV is a giant wall
Anyone who has read the classic Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 recognizes the possible future in which the walls of our homes are televisions and basically life is in the land of TV. Well, Samsung just made that real with a 146-inch MicroLED screen. It's called The Wall and it's breathtaking.
Introduced during Samsung First Look, the company's big event at CES, The Wall lives up to its name not just by its size but by its promise of functionality. The TV has no edges, so it embeds itself on any surface.

Samsung also describes the screen as the first "modular TV", which is a phrase that only makes sense in half. It's not something modular in the sense that you can break it up into small pieces to make the screen smaller or larger. Instead, the screen can be programmed to show images in different sizes. There is a way, for example, that shows a narrow image being stretched across the entire display. The remainder becomes a black space, a letterbox (those black belts in wide films) exaggerated. It's a new Samsung trick.
Another novelty is MicroLED's self-emitting technology. Samsung says they are "micrometer-scale LEDs, much smaller than current LEDs." It's unclear exactly how much better resolution is, but when the curtains went up and I saw The Wall for the first time, I choked. She is big, bright and beautiful. It also was not clear when this TV will be sold and how much it will cost.

Adam Clark