The new 110in TV which costs more than some homes

Samsung has launched a 110 inch TV that costs at least £92,000 and features four times the resolution of a normal HD screen - and has already sold four of them 

Models pose with a Samsung 110-inch UHD TV. Samsung have said that the 110-inch UHD TV has four times the resolution of standard high-definition TVs and will retail for about $150,000 in South Korea.

Samsung has launched a 110 inch LCD television with four times the resolution of a traditional HD screen. The television screen was unveiled yesterday in South Korea, where the basic model will initially go on sale for 160 million won, giving it a UK price of around £92,000. It is expected that most sales will be custom orders that could cost much more.

The screen was mentioned at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show with a promised release date at some point during 2013. The company has just managed to keep to that schedule, launching it on the penultimate day of the year and less than a week before the start of next year’s CES in Las Vegas.

U-HD (Ultra-High Definition) can refer to either 4K, which is four times the resolution of normal HD at 3840 pixels wide by 2160 pixels tall, or 8K, which is 16 times the resolution, or 7680 pixels wide by 4320 pixels tall. Samsung’s new 110 inch model has 4K resolution.

Several manufacturers have been pushing OLED technology as the future of home entertainment as it provides greater clarity and deeper colour saturation, but manufacturing extremely larger screens has proven difficult. Devices like this latest 110 inch television use standard LCD technology.

U-HD is becoming increasingly popular and is likely to become a standard at some point in the future. According to NPD DisplaySearch, worldwide sales will rise from 1.3 million this year to 23 million in 2017. Half of those will go to the Chinese market. 

Despite the eye-watering price of its latest model, Samsung says it has already received four orders for the televisions from the Middle East.