Have you ever looked at your TV and thought, Man, I wish I could carry this with me out into the woods. No? Sharp thinks you’re missing out!
The company’s “Freestyle’ line of “portable” TVs sport handles, and go up to 60 inches. No power cord! No cables! But what are you going to watch on it? Are you going to bring a DVD player and a diesel generator with you out onto the beach? Are you going to use that handle to walk down the street with your TV, putting on a show for passersby? An act of LCD goodwill?
That guy up there had to wear a shoulder bag-sized battery pack in order to lug that thing around.
This is the only new thing Sharp has shown so far at CES.
Sharp says the Freestyle TVs will use Wi-Fi to stream stuff. How exactly this works, they wouldn’t say. Oh, and about that battery pack? Every single model except the 20-incher needs one.
ThatGuy
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 6:47 AMI’ve got their market – street spruikers! Why walk around with an A-Frame or sign pointing out the local discount suit store when you can advertise with these things?
Andy
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 7:40 AMyeah it would cost them a years wages though
light487
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 8:58 AMGone are the boomboxes on shoulders.. now people lug around HDTVs on their shoulders.
Matt
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 9:14 AMI can think of many uses… Now if you can get those batteries to charge via induction (and I can hide the charger on the underside of my desk) you’ve got a sale (I’ve got a nice old bankers desk and cables (look crap… give me a monitor with no cables and I’d be opening the wallet right now)
Josh
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 9:37 AMYou seriously can’t think of any uses?
This is an excellent idea.
Think of those pop-up stores you’re seeing around town. It’s perfect for those.
And for the general public it will be much easier to say “I’ll take the tv to your house cause you have a bigger couch. Then we can ALL watch the game!”
Adam
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 12:49 PMThink about what you’re saying though. You could just take any TV in those situations, and just plug it in to a nearby powerpoint.
The “advantage” of this TV is that you won’t need the power source (and depending on battery life, you will soon enough regardless).
The only uses I can see for this is something like camping, but do you really need a TV then? Plus, its durability may be questioned.
In many other situations that I can think of it being useful, such as in my backyard, it’s likely a better and more cost effective solution such as an extension cord would be the way to go.
JB
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 12:20 PMThis is without a doubt the WORST idea in technology since that Pictionary UDraw thing for the Wii
Nords
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 12:13 AMOr just the Wii in general, what a poor showing from Sharp, my favorite TV manufacture.