Vertical TV for millennials

[notimp]

The latest addition to Samsung’s TV range is the Sero, a 43-inch TV that was designed with the millennial generation in mind and therefore pivots between horizontal and vertical orientations. It’s a much smarter idea than the phrase “vertical TV” would lead you to believe

src: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/29/18522287/samsung-sero-vertical-tv-price-release-date-millennials

 

[Friendsxix]

I've... I've never once felt encumbered or irritated by a horizontal television. I highy doubt anyone else has, either.

I can't imagine this selling well at all...

 

[Joom]

Except film is in 16:9, and flat panel monitors that can be used vertically have been used for years, especially by those that code. I fail to see how this will have any sort of popularity in most homes.

 

[Mythical]

A vertical moniter is nice in multiple moniter setups, but also nice for emulating 3ds and ds games (especially a touch screen version).
Other than that eh

 

[DinohScene]

Finally, a telly for stupid fucks that don't know how to capture film and take pictures with their mobile phones.

 

[FAST6191]

Can we actually get it? Trying to find a decent monitor with a nice vertical viewing angle (which becomes horizontal when you rotate the thing 90 degrees to use a portrait monitor) is a bit of a pain and if clueless cinematographers want to drive down the price much like gamers drive down the price of various other things then I am OK with that.

 

[VinsCool]

Because if you ever need a vertical screen, it's hard to rotate existing TVs?

 

[SG854]

This would be great for Shoot Em Ups. But not so good for Movies or anything else. I’d rather have one that you can switch orientation. Monitors like this already exist.

Constantly switching the orientation would be annoying through unless they add a machine that’ll do it with a press of a button.

 

[Deleted User]

I don't think there exists an easy enough vertical shooter for to drive millennial demand for these.

 

[skullskullskull]

Wow, this will be great for playing pac-man, galaga, and donkey kong. oh wait, those aren't games for millennials. People have been using vertical mode for as long we've had tvs.

 

[xbmcuser]

great for playing Donkey Kong arcade

 

[Mama Looigi]

This could be helpful for certain businesses, sometimes I walk into a store and they have a sideways tv playing a 9:16 video. Which looks stupid to me, because the tv stand is sticking out

 

[Deleted User]

This could be helpful for certain businesses, sometimes I walk into a store and they have a sideways tv playing a 9:16 video. Which looks stupid to me, because the tv stand is sticking out

One of my nearby malls has vertical screens about playing ads on them

I think this TV could see a lot of use for anyone who isn't in the target demographic.

 

[slaphappygamer]

Now we can watch all those old movies from the 80’s and 90’s, when everyone had elongated heads, normally! I’m talking to YOU, Howard The Duck, Mad Science, and Sixteen Candles.

 

[Superbronx]

I'm not really a fan of this but I think I can see maybe 2 possibilities.
1. Maybe since a large portion of Samsung smartphone owners use their device in the vertical position, perhaps they think a television would have the same appeal?

2. Artists can use it as a virtual canvas?

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

Ayy, Glove And Boots!

 

[kumikochan]

It's not really meant as a main tv in the house but i don't see the problem what everybody is making when you can easily turn it around and use it like a normal tv so what's the problem or is just everybody bashing again because well they need to bash ? I actually do see it as a good piece of tech you can set up in a bigger house and use it as one of your secondary tv's and have it set up for like different stuff. In my home alone where i live by myself i have like 7 smart tv's setup wich 5 of them are UHD.

 

[ThoD]

If it's just TV, it's gonna be useless sideways because normal broadcasting will show up in normal aspect ratio making most of the screen just unusable. If it's also monitor though then I don't see why they'd do this, especially since Windows and most OSs can actually have the output rotated, so you can already use pretty much ANY monitor sideways, so unless this has much better viewing angles for all directions compared to current monitors on the market it's gonna flop. Hell, if you wanted a vertical monitor you can just get an ultra-wide monitor instead and mount it sideways, then rotate the output by 90° via the OS and you get a much better experience since vertical monitors are only used at times when you need to fit as much stuff vertically as possible (eg: high level programming where you want as much of the code which only displays vertically visible as possible to avoid making mistakes or cross reference sections).

And don't get me started on the 1600$ price tag... for "millennials"

 

[Harsky]

Is that vertical monitor Hal 9000?

 

[kumikochan]

If it's just TV, it's gonna be useless sideways because normal broadcasting will show up in normal aspect ratio making most of the screen just unusable. If it's also monitor though then I don't see why they'd do this, especially since Windows and most OSs can actually have the output rotated, so you can already use pretty much ANY monitor sideways, so unless this has much better viewing angles for all directions compared to current monitors on the market it's gonna flop. Hell, if you wanted a vertical monitor you can just get an ultra-wide monitor instead and mount it sideways, then rotate the output by 90° via the OS and you get a much better experience since vertical monitors are only used at times when you need to fit as much stuff vertically as possible (eg: high level programming where you want as much of the code which only displays vertically visible as possible to avoid making mistakes or cross reference sections).

And don't get me started on the 1600$ price tag... for "millennials"

In the article itself it is clearly mentioned not to be used for watching tv in that aspect ratio but more like a phone enlarger or software that can be used like that for multiple purposes. Also it's not meant as a monitor but as a bigger screen you can use anywhere NOT TV wise. Ofcourse you can use an ultrawide monitor but it clearly isn't the same seeing an ultrawide monitor doesn't nearly have the same size as this plus meant for an entirely different audience. I really don't get why people constantly bring up the monitor thing when that is a whole other thing by itself or the TV watching thing when Samsung clearly states that that aspect ratio is not to be used to watch tv but different purposes alltogether.