WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.200 Wireless TVs. Why don't they exist already? Well, 2 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:07.720 at ces I finally got to see a completely wireless 55 inch TV 3 00:00:07.830 --> 00:00:12.480 called Displaced TV that doesn't have any power cable and doesn't have any 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:16.600 wires to connect to. It's a thing you can just hang up on a window. 5 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:23.720 Displaced TV is a 55 inch 4K TV that weighs under 20 6 00:00:23.720 --> 00:00:27.120 pounds and has its own hot swappable batteries. 7 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:30.800 There are four inside that should give it about a day of use. 8 00:00:30.820 --> 00:00:33.680 You could swap 'em out while the TV's still running. 9 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:38.800 The TV has its own suction pump system that can attach to 10 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:42.920 apparently nearly any surface. We saw it attached to a glass window, 11 00:00:43.080 --> 00:00:44.040 which is cool. 12 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:51.800 Apparently can also attach to other walls as long as they're flat and it hangs 13 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:54.160 there and plays your stuff. 14 00:00:55.310 --> 00:00:58.120 It's got a standard kind of smart TV type interface, 15 00:00:58.260 --> 00:01:03.240 and the way it works is by streaming the content from a concealed 16 00:01:03.430 --> 00:01:06.960 processing box that's supposed to be about the size of a PC tower. 17 00:01:07.110 --> 00:01:10.640 I didn't even get to see that part. Apparently it's still kind of in the works, 18 00:01:10.820 --> 00:01:13.640 but you could imagine this is something that's gonna want to be tucked away 19 00:01:13.670 --> 00:01:15.760 versus put under your tv. 20 00:01:16.150 --> 00:01:19.880 This place TV is a platform that can run multiple TVs at the same time. 21 00:01:19.940 --> 00:01:21.720 Off of that same processor box, 22 00:01:21.780 --> 00:01:25.120 you could run six TVs or eventually up to maybe eight, 23 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:29.000 all with that same system, and that was the original concept of the design. 24 00:01:29.110 --> 00:01:32.880 Then it also became wireless and it's also battery powered. 25 00:01:33.030 --> 00:01:37.400 It's not that surprising to me for the reason that I feel like we've seen this 26 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:39.240 kind of tech happening elsewhere. I mean, 27 00:01:39.240 --> 00:01:43.800 VR headsets are increasingly streaming from other devices like PCs. 28 00:01:43.850 --> 00:01:47.880 We have tablets that are running on batteries and player TV shows you have 29 00:01:47.880 --> 00:01:51.960 streaming games. Makes sense that televisions would enter that spectrum. 30 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:56.240 Displaced TV though does look like it's its own kind of self-contained ecosystem 31 00:01:56.460 --> 00:01:57.800 and it's not that cheap. 32 00:01:57.800 --> 00:02:02.440 It's $3,000 for one screen and the processor box 33 00:02:02.530 --> 00:02:06.680 or $9,000 if you want to get four screens and a processor box. 34 00:02:06.810 --> 00:02:10.480 We played a few sample videos from CNET to take a look at how it performed. 35 00:02:10.490 --> 00:02:15.360 It looked nice, you know it's, it's hard to judge a TV in a demo situation, um, 36 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.440 in a hotel room, but it was very cool that it hung up on a window. 37 00:02:18.650 --> 00:02:22.560 It kind of makes me wonder what other places you'd put a TV that you wouldn't 38 00:02:22.720 --> 00:02:24.680 normally put a tv. Displaced. 39 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.760 TV also supports hand tracking for gestures, 40 00:02:27.860 --> 00:02:31.720 but it goes a step further by not even having a remote at all. 41 00:02:31.900 --> 00:02:34.400 I'm not sure how I feel about that. In fact, I do know how I feel. 42 00:02:34.470 --> 00:02:35.360 I want a remote, 43 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:39.880 but the makers of displaced TV feel that this is good enough that it can work 44 00:02:39.880 --> 00:02:41.040 with just hand gestures. 45 00:02:41.130 --> 00:02:44.760 My experience with hand gestures is that your mileage definitely varies, 46 00:02:44.860 --> 00:02:49.840 but clearly displaced TV is going for an unusual type of customer and a future 47 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:50.920 forward type of person. 48 00:02:51.090 --> 00:02:55.040 Whether this technology expands into other types of televisions, well, 49 00:02:55.040 --> 00:02:57.360 you could kind of expect that it would, but doesn't. 50 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.880 The type of stuff that you see every year at CS in Las Vegas where new types of 51 00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:04.360 tech are being thrown against the wall literally to see if they stick.