Any idea if this would be sold in the US?
Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640
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#52I 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?
xiaomi creates hype through scarcity.
Last year I wanted a xiaomi box (a bit like apple tv but optimized for China)
They only release x amount of units on a certain day at a certain time on a monthly basis. These will be sold out in seconds. I'm pretty sure most of these items are bought by scalper bots then resold on taobao.com etc. I never successfully managed to order and eventually bought on the secondary market for a small markup
This is great for xiaomi. They create hype and each of their sales are a sellout. The next month they come out with a slightly improved version of their product based on user feedback
As their founder said Electronics are like seafood you don't want it hang around a warehouse too long
to sum up
your chances of getting on of these from xiaomi.com are really really low
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#53Is this actually possible? Can they really make a 49-inch 4k screen with a Snapdragon processor, etc., for $640?
No retailer
good relationships with the factory
bulk buying
No marketing costs
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#54I 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.
What do you mean "without a bezel," do you just take it off?
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#55Anyone put its traffic through Wireshark to see what it's up to yet?
Why? Are you implying that it's going to do something nefarious because it's made by an Asian/Chinese company? How would you feel if people said that about American products? Maybe I should be scared about getting irradiated from American products because Americans have killed a metric ton of people using nuclear weapons within the last century?
It's not unheard of for smart TVs to snoop on you. LG did it.
Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640
#56I 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.
>For watching full screen video, I just drop the resolution down to 1920x1080 to overcome the 30hz limitation the display currently has.
Why is 30hz a limitation for video? Most video is 24 or 30fps, so 30hz should be fine, no? I can see 30hz being a limitation for gaming but you wouldn't be able to get good fps at 4K resolution anyway. So basically you should be able to run this at 4K all the time.
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#57how do you get one of these?
Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640
#58Anyone put its traffic through Wireshark to see what it's up to yet?
Why? Are you implying that it's going to do something nefarious because it's made by an Asian/Chinese company? How would you feel if people said that about American products? Maybe I should be scared about getting irradiated from American products because Americans have killed a metric ton of people using nuclear weapons within the last century?
Don't be an ass.
https://spideroak.com/privacypost/cloud-security/is-your-sma...
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#59I 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.
>For watching full screen video, I just drop the resolution down to 1920x1080 to overcome the 30hz limitation the display currently has. Why is 30hz a limitation for video? Most video is 24 or 30fps, so 30hz should be fine, no? I can see 30hz being a limitation for gaming but you wouldn't be able to get good fps at 4K resolution anyway. So basically you should be able to run this at 4K all the time.
24fps video on a 30hz display isn't going to be smooth. Every fourth frame of the video will last for twice as long as the rest.
I haven't seen it in person - one of the downsides of being in rural New Zealand is no friends with cool toys :) - but I've seen much less severe problems on paper be quite nasty.
In game development, my day job, the industry has recently been cracking down on micro stutter, where even randomly skipped single frames at 60fps can destroy the appearance of smoothness.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What do you mean "without a bezel," do you just take it off?
He means without the several sets of bezels you'd normally have from the normal way of getting this much screen area, i.e., by having several monitors.