Getting decent audio out of a TV with basically no bezel is a hard engineering problem. Read: expensive.
There are some crazy schemes that have been tried, like embedding a piezioelectric layer on top of the display, but the reality is no one wants to pay a grand or two for that when they could just plug in a soundbar. What TV makers should really do is bundle soundbars with the TV in a combo pack, which I think they already (sometimes) do.
Getting decent audio out of a TV with basically no bezel
That’s part of the problem, isn’t it? They’re trying to make TVs into an art piece instead of a functional appliance.
We were ok with fatass CRT sets when that’s all that was available. When LCD became standard, most people were happy about that. Now that bezel-less TVs are a thing, apparently we can no longer go back to anything but a 65" iPad.
This is fine with OLEDs and future(?) emissive displays TBH. They don’t need a thick bezel for much of anything, and thinning them out saves on materials/shipping weight up to a point.
Edge-lit LCDs were kind of an insane fad, but… outside low-end PC monitors, that’s mostly over.
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Are you willing to pay through the nose?
Getting decent audio out of a TV with basically no bezel is a hard engineering problem. Read: expensive.
There are some crazy schemes that have been tried, like embedding a piezioelectric layer on top of the display, but the reality is no one wants to pay a grand or two for that when they could just plug in a soundbar. What TV makers should really do is bundle soundbars with the TV in a combo pack, which I think they already (sometimes) do.
That’s part of the problem, isn’t it? They’re trying to make TVs into an art piece instead of a functional appliance.
We were ok with fatass CRT sets when that’s all that was available. When LCD became standard, most people were happy about that. Now that bezel-less TVs are a thing, apparently we can no longer go back to anything but a 65" iPad.
This is fine with OLEDs and future(?) emissive displays TBH. They don’t need a thick bezel for much of anything, and thinning them out saves on materials/shipping weight up to a point.
Edge-lit LCDs were kind of an insane fad, but… outside low-end PC monitors, that’s mostly over.