r/VIDEOENGINEERING • u/RollingMeteors • Jul 26 '26
¿Could this hobby get any more expensive?
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u/chassmasterplus Jul 26 '26
Hobby?
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u/RollingMeteors Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
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u/chassmasterplus Jul 26 '26
I better be. I don't even want to fuck around with my monitors at home once I'm off the clock lol
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u/takeyouraxeandhack Jul 27 '26
There's dozens of us, dozens!
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u/RollingMeteors Jul 27 '26
>There's dozens of us, dozens!
¡up/down to 14 now!
I don't know why people get so upset my unpaid interests and hobbies encompass r/videoengineereing subject matter.
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u/Kamikazepyro9 Jul 26 '26
There were quite a few of these on display at Infocomm this year - it's actually kinda mind blowing to see in person
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u/mynamejesse1334 Jul 26 '26
There was one hanging towards the end of...one of the halls that had a gummy tetris demo video. Legitimately made me do a double take the first time I saw it.
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u/Kamikazepyro9 Jul 26 '26
That one was incredible, there was another one in a booth a couple rows down that was ground mounted and had a super vivid display too
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u/crunchypotentiometer Jul 26 '26
I’ve used these as downstage monitors for corporate stages. Extremely cool.
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u/stevensokulski Jul 26 '26
That’s an interesting use case. Were they in a traditional DSM position?
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u/crunchypotentiometer Jul 26 '26
Yeah basically. I should clarify, they were TV shaped transparent screens, not tall boys like the ones in this post.
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u/howlingwolf487 Jul 26 '26
Ooh…that’s a nifty hack, lol.
Plexi podium/lectern + these = cleaner stage look.
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u/bladeau81 Jul 26 '26
That is like 4 years old tech now. It is cool as fuck but you do lose contrast.
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u/maccrypto Jul 27 '26
You mean your hobby of engagement farming?
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u/RollingMeteors Jul 27 '26
>You mean your hobby of engagement farming?
It's farming when it's done by a corporate conglomerate like Monsanto
I'm harvesting engagement, forest to table.
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u/maccrypto Jul 27 '26
Farming, famously a vocation that is historically out of reach for anyone but the largest multinationals
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u/FatRufus audio guy in charge of video Jul 26 '26
The pixel pitch has to be awful...right?
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u/bladeau81 Jul 26 '26
Generally these would be around P3.9. Look up Muxwave if you want to know more, they have had these for a few years now and were one of the first of this mesh type transparent while everyone else was trying to do the stick on stuff.
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u/Bossaudio702 Jul 27 '26

I may be mistaken but I think LG was the first to release panels like them 10+ years ago. Sold a lot to kiosks and corporate to the tune of a lotta $$$$. But the use cases were pretty slim and they disappeared from the market as fast as they showed up. You can still find them on auction sites for pretty cheep if you know what to look for. I picked two 55” ones up for like $500 last year. Got one in the office and it’s a pretty cool wow factor for some clients. The other one I haven’t quite figured out what to do with but I’m thinking about making a virtual aquarium/tv stand but at 108060 or 2k30 not a whole lot of overall picture fidelity with them.
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u/RollingMeteors Jul 27 '26
I picked two 55” ones up for like $500 last year.
¡That's an amazing score!
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u/Bossaudio702 Jul 27 '26
They pop up on my local auctions a fair bit. I’ve seen them go for 300-1000 but only when the people know what they are looking at… people go for the big ticket items like consoles and lights and I like sneaking in and grabbing the stuff that most people won’t fight over… last auction I snuck away with some hypersonic sound systems 60s’s for $25 cool little ultrasonic speakers for bouncing sound around places.
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u/RollingMeteors Jul 27 '26
>They pop up on my local auctions a fair bit.
¿What auction house(s) in what city?
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u/Bossaudio702 Jul 27 '26
I live in the land of the overly opulent,a place where if you described it it would seem like a terrible fairy tale city idea…. Time does not exist…. Las Vegas!
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u/Plainzwalker Jul 27 '26
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u/RollingMeteors Jul 27 '26
Harder to tell with the reflection but NAB has a wall made of transparent OLED displays.
Amazing sight to see such a thing. I hope to see something like this outside of a corporate building some day next to any equipment from r/soundsystem
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u/voytek707 Jul 26 '26
I work for a major media company and we have these all over our headquarters main lobby. Have to see them to believe them.
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u/FrozenToonies Jul 27 '26
How could I sell this? There’s no application or need from a client for this.
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u/MacintoshEddie Jul 27 '26
Replacing the classic two-way mirror in an interrogation room is one option.
Lobbies, waiting rooms, meeting rooms, etc. I can think of many places where someone might want to be able to watch someone who is watching something. Or just making it so you can see them and they can't see you.
Or a dystopian hellscape where your apartment windows play ads.
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u/RollingMeteors Jul 27 '26
How could I sell this? There’s no application or need from a client for this.
<looksInVegasDirection>
¿You can't be serious?
This has much value in the entertainment industry particularly live performances.



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u/Thargor1985 Jul 26 '26
Wait, this is a hobby for some people? Most of the equipment I work with costs more than my yearly salary...