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Mitsubishi Electric’s 4K Display, World’s Largest, Lights Up New York




  • JUN HONGO
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The world’s largest 4k monitor, made by Mitsubishi Electric 6503.TO -1.55%, at Times Square in New York on Wednesday. Reuters

The world’s largest 4K display monitor, manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric Corp., is now lighting up Times Square in New York.
At 100 meters wide and 24 meters tall, the display spans an entire block and stands about eight stories high. It incorporates about 24 million LEDs, Jun Take****a, an employee at Mitsubishi Electric, told Japan Real Time.
The screen was made in Mitsubishi Electric’s factory in Nagasaki prefecture. Its manufacturing cost hasn’t been made public.
It may seem familiar to some New Yorkers. Mitsubishi Electric also provided the high-resolution video screen at Yankee Stadium, although that display isn’t 4K full high vision.
Mitsubishi’s 4K screen is set up at the front of New York Marriott Marquis, located between the west 45th and 46th on Broadway. According to the Times Square Alliance, more than 300,000 pedestrians visit the area and 115,000 drivers and passengers pass through it every day.
 
Everything we have read says wait a year or two as the models will get significantly better and there is little output in UHD to watch. What are you watching in UHD?
 
Everything we have read says wait a year or two as the models will get significantly better and there is little output in UHD to watch. What are you watching in UHD?

I'm hoping the HDMI 2.0 and HEVC codec support will make the device future proof enough.

We watched House of Cards and Blacklist on Netflix in UHD. I'd say that scaling 1080p Full HD to UHD does provide quite pleasant picture as well. Here Samsung's top end 65" curved Full HD costs about 2500 € and 65" curved UHD about 3000 € so one doesn't really pay that much for the extra pixels.
 
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