The third place - Panasonic releases Transparent/Semi-transparent Television

[williamcll]

After LG and Xiaomi, Panasonic has finalized their design with their Transparent TVs that they have demonstrated last year. It comes in two flavors, one transparent model that is more or less what LG and Xiaomi has made as well as a dimmable model that turns the device into more of a regular television. Both are OLED 1080p, 55 inches and will be available starting December.

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Last week Panasonic delivered on its promise and launched the TP-55ZT110 and TP-55ZT100 transparent OLED displays. Overall, there seems to be no disparity between what was introduced a year back, and what was launched last week. However, the main concern for a lot of people appears to be the realization of the dimming unit, and whether it is present in the OLED displays that were launched. Panasonic’s venture into manufacturing transparent OLEDs is comparatively a long process since the company had announced such a concept as far back as 2016. The company had shown prototypes and concepts for such.

Compared to TP-55ZT100, the back panel of Panasonic TP-55ZT110 provides a dimming unit. This is something that is developed exclusively by Panasonic and it comes with the added feature to change the display to “Black Mode”. It aims to reduce light transmission, reducing the transparency of the TV. Consequently, the image quality is improved by increasing the contrast. This makes the TZ110 can be used as a regular display or as a transparent display. Although Panasonic did not mention the price for the two TP-55ZT110 and TP-55ZT100 OLED displays; however, the company did mention that they will be available in Japan and the Asia-Pacific market as soon as December 2020.

Source: https://www.techgenyz.com/2020/11/23/panasonic-launched-transparent-oled-displays/

https://news.panasonic.com/global/press/data/2020/11/en201120-3/en201120-3.html
Thoughts: I would imagine Panasonic's offering would be better than Xiaomi's quality, but it's hard to tell how high they will price it at. I wonder how different the latency would be as well?

[TempestCatto]

I do wanna see these in stores marketing stuff, or show casing stuff off at big events. But those companies will have to hire someone with good cable management skills (so not Linus). 

[Doobeedoo]

It is cool though. 

[Mark Kaine]

how does this even work... don't monitors / TVs have all kinds of circuitry in the back? And what about cables (for electricity)? 

 

I'm not saying this is fake, just how does it work lol - I know they have a box thing under the screen but still...?

 

ps: these don't even seem to have a box!

[Wheresmehammer]

Very impractical.

[GOTSpectrum]

10 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

how does this even work... don't monitors / TVs have all kinds of circuitry in the back? And what about cables (for electricity)? 

 

I'm not saying this is fake, just how does it work lol - I know they have a box thing under the screen but still...?

 

ps: these don't even seem to have a box!

They use LEDs so there is no need for a backlight.

 

The conductors'wires' in your screen are already transparent anyway.

 

As far as how there's no cables all the connections are at the bottom where there is a box or thin edge of done kind.

[Mark Kaine]

18 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

They use LEDs so there is no need for a backlight.

 

The conductors'wires' in your screen are already transparent anyway.

 

As far as how there's no cables all the connections are at the bottom where there is a box or thin edge of done kind.

oh ok got it, thanks 

 

(I still do have to digest the invisible wires thing though, but I guess they're just really thin or something)