As for all the too-good-to-be-true Xiaomi products, you have to enter a lottery draw before you can actually buy one. The chance of winning is pretty slim.
Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640
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#23I would love a massive 40-50"+ monitor with the standard PPI of 94. Loads of space, with no worrying about scaling issues or ridiculously tiny fonts/icons/etc.
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#24As for all the too-good-to-be-true Xiaomi products, you have to enter a lottery draw before you can actually buy one. The chance of winning is pretty slim.
You can easily find a all new resale with 10% more on Taobao. It is still a reasonable price. You can consider Xiaomi outsources retails.
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#25Where does this say that it's 4k? Everything on the linked page says it's 1080p, which is NOT the same thing as 4k. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution
Edit: Yeah, Ok, I just scrolled down, and realised the actual link for the TV in question is https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&...
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#26Where does this say that it's 4k? Everything on the linked page says it's 1080p, which is NOT the same thing as 4k. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution Edit: Yeah, Ok, I just scrolled down, and realised the actual link for the TV in question is https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&...
It's clear from the Chinese version of the site that it's 4K:
http://www.mi.com/mitv
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#27I see a few people in this thread saying you would need an amount of luck to actually get one of these, can anyone shed some light on why?
And possibly what someone might do to actually get one shipped out to Australia?
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#28I would love a massive 40-50"+ monitor with the standard PPI of 94. Loads of space, with no worrying about scaling issues or ridiculously tiny fonts/icons/etc.
Yeah, honestly, my favorite coding monitor is 37" 1080P cheapo Vizio TV placed a like five feet away. The eyes are most relaxed at far distances.
4K to me sounds useless, but hey, maybe it will drive down prices and if I'm stuck with one I can half the res. or scale I guess.
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#29I use a Seiki 50" 4K display for coding and it was a revelation. I love all the bezel-free screen real estate and I would never go back. For watching full screen video, I just drop the resolution down to 1920x1080 to overcome the 30hz limitation the display currently has. More competition in the ~50" 4K space is welcome news.
I use a 39" 4k Seiki, and I've been very happy with it too. Paid $420 about a month ago (it's $500 from Amazon right now), and it's a pretty amazing amount of real estate without a bezel. 30hz is a little annoying for some tasks, but for coding and other static applications, it really doesn't bother me.
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#30Does this have a TV tuner? I thought a tuner was the difference between a TV and a monitor.