The latest addition to Samsung’s TV range is the Sero, a 43-inch TV that was designed with the millennial generation in mind and therefore pivots between horizontal and vertical orientations. It’s a much smarter idea than the phrase “vertical TV” would lead you to believe. Acknowledging that most mobile content is vertical, Samsung says the Sero is designed to encourage young people to project more of their smartphone stuff onto the TV by allowing it to go vertical. Throwing in 4.1-channel, 60W speakers along with an integrated navy stand and a minimalist rear design, Samsung seems to hope this TV will function as both a music streaming hub and a handsome piece of furniture.
When it’s not used as a conventional TV or a phone enlarger, the Sero can also serve as a huge digital photo frame or a music visualizer, and Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant will be on hand, too. Samsung intends to put the Sero on sale for 1.89m KRW (around $1,600) in its home market of South Korea at the end of May.
The Sero occupies a weird middle ground between a concept and a real product. Opening a pop-up store in Seoul today and showing off the Sero alongside its existing Serif and Frame TV lines, Samsung is adding to its so-called lifestyle TV lineup. It is putting a price and release date on the Sero. But the company also calls this new TV a concept, and its efforts will surely include close monitoring of consumer feedback to the entire premise. Will millennials warm to the expanded flexibility, or will they feel subtly attacked for the Sero exposing the intensity of their (okay, our) smartphone addiction?
-PM-ME-YOUR-LAST-PIC on April 29th, 2019 at 16:58 UTC »
For the people too lazy to read the article: The TV rotates for when you want to watch a horizontal video/movie. It’s vertical to encourage streaming the contents of your phone to the TV.
Edit: grammar
dontbajerk on April 29th, 2019 at 14:17 UTC »
It's not really that new anyway, there are tons of monitors that rotate like this. A lot of artists and sometimes coders (for more vertical space) etc use them, especially as a secondary monitor.
sabinx on April 29th, 2019 at 13:24 UTC »
Millenials have grown up with normal TVs, widescreen monitors etc, its Gen Z that have had the most exposure to smart phone/tablet devices, so why would someone like myself in late 20s all of a sudden want a vertical TV, i'm baffled.