Big Stuff: The 12 Monsters of TV

For anyone who’s into home entertainment and home theater equipment, you know that the centerpiece of a good system is the television. The people who are ready to take their home theater to the next level, or for those who’d just like to dream about it, you’ve got to take a look at this titanic list of gigantic plasma, LCD, and LED TVs. When it comes to HDTVs, bigger is better, and this list of the largest TVs in the world has got the biggest of them all. From huge HDTVs at sporting venues and stadiums, to the largest consumer big screen TVs on the planet, right here you’ll find 12 of the largest TV’s ever designed. This list is intended to make home theater enthusiasts drool in envy, and make them wonder why they ever bought that puny 50-inch plasma!
Sharp’s 108-inch LCD HDTV

Sharp unveiled their 108-inch Aquos big screen LCD at the 2007 CeBIT, and at that time it was the largest consumer HDTV in the world. It still remains one of the largest consumer LCD TVs in the world. This huge HDTV features 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution, and it should be available to consumers later this year. Sharp hasn’t released details on pricing yet, but the comparable 103-inch Panasonic plasma currently on the market sells for around $100,000, so definitely expect this mammoth LCD to carry a price tag in the six figures.
Panasonic 150-inch Plasma

At the 2008 CES, Panasonic unveiled what is currently the largest plasma in the world at an incredible 150-inches. This thing stands 11-feet wide and 6-feet tall, and it will cost customers in the six figures to purchase one. Expected retail price of this awesome plasma will be somewhere around $150,000, so start saving-up now. This 1080p big screen HDTV features 4096 x 2160 resolution, and it’s supposedly energy efficient, at least as energy efficient as a plasma TV of this size can be.
Technovision Luxio LED HDTV

Did you think that Panasonic’s 150-inch behemoth was the largest consumer flat panel in the world?…Wrong! The Technovision LuxioLED flat screen is a 205-inch monster that is 15-feet wide and over 8-feet tall! This thing consists of 750,000 tiny LEDs which provide a full HD picture in 16:9 widescreen format. The Luxio sports a resolution of 1344 x 768, and an amazing contrast ratio of 10,000:1. Now the only question is whether to spend half a million dollars on a house, or splurge on the Luxio 205-inch HDTV?…Just buy a cheap house with an open 15 x 8-foot wall to mount your gigantic TV trophy. Keep in mind that this TV doesn’t have built-in speakers, so make sure to save a few bucks for a surround sound system too
Fujitsu Super Frontech Vision LD

Got an extra half a million dollars laying around? You could spend it on a house, a garage full of exotic cars, or travel the world…but why not spend it on Fujitsu’s 231-inchflat screen TV? The Super Frontech Vision LD has all the inputs of a normal television, such as DVI input, it’s just that it’s probably 5 times larger than your TV at home. The downside of this beast is that it only sports a resolution of 512 x 288 LED pixels, so you’ll have to stand about 15-feet back from the screen to be able to see the screen clearly. Its all a bit ridiculous but hey…at least you’ll be the only guy on the block who can say that he has a 231-inch TV!
The “Holden-burg” Blimp

Quite possibly the largest TV in the world, that isn’t situated safely on land, is the Holden Blimp in Australia. This 55-meter long blimp is filled with 5 million liters of helium, and is affectionately nicknamed the “Holden-burg“. This multi-million dollar flying marketing campaign features an incredible 914-inch TV screen on its side. The pixels are spaced a few inches apart, so viewing the giant screen up-close is impossible, but viewing it from the ground as it flies high overhead is like watching the tiny 19-inch TV that you already have at home except for you don’t have to feel like a loser for actually owning a 19-inch TV
Godzillatron


Known as one of the largest HDTV’s in the world, Godzillatron is the scoreboard at the University of Texasfootball stadium. There is no official name that has been given to this monstrous scoreboard, so Godzillatron seemed to be a perfect fit for the Longhorn fans here. This high definition television is an incredible 7,370-square-feet in size, which makes it the largest HDTV in the entire Western hemisphere. This huge flat screen cost nearly $8 million to install, so don’t start making plans to buy a duplicate for your backyard. This TV would make a perfect outdoor drive-in theater, though, with its crystal clear 2064 x 848 HD-resolution.
Mitsubishi Diamond Vision at Sha Tin Horse Race Course

This huge LED TV is one of the longest TVs in the world at 231-feet wide, it’s also 26-feet tall. To get a visual of how big this actually is, the life-size version of the Statue of Liberty would easily fit on-screen if she were to lay on her side. This screen is known by the Guinness Book of World Records as the World’s Longest Television. Mitsubishi didn’t just want to create the world’s longest TV, they also wanted to create one that had a crystal clear picture. This Diamond Vision screen features LED pixel technology where each pixel consists of 4 dots, making the picture incredibly clear.
Mitsubishi Aurora Vision HDTV at Tokyo Racecourse

Mitsubishi Electric has outdone themselves with this 37 x 218-feet widescreen located at the Tokyo Racecourse. This thing is so big that it had to be prefabricated off-site, and then delivered to its final destination in 35 individual pieces that were pieced together on-site. To get a good visual of how big this HDTV really is, you’d have to stack 1,550 32-inch TVs together to match the immense size of this TV. This LED HDTV can be your’s for a cool $28 million. Expensive, yes…but what do you expect an HDTV with the surface area of 3 full-size tennis courts to cost?
Fremont Street Canopy in Las Vegas


Walking through the world famous Fremont Street Experienceis, well…quite an experience. Featured here is one of the world’s largest LED TVs that is in the form of a canopy high above street level. The $17 million Viva Vision in downtown Las Vegas features 12.5 million LEDs provide high resolution video at 60 frames per second on a screen that is larger than 5 football fields stretched endzone to endzone! The entire canopy screen consists of 3.5 million pixels and 16.7 million color combinations, and it takes 10 high-tech computers to run it all. Every good high-def TV needs a good surround sound system, and this one has one of the best in the world. The audio system at the Fremont Street Experience is powered by 500,000 watts of concert-quality sound. This location has been a hotspot for concerts and shows, as well as some of the biggest New Year’s bashes in the world, since it was constructed in 2004.
Beijing High Definition LED Canopy
This one-of-a-kind LED canopy in Beijing, China is the world’s largest HDTV. It’s located in a new Chinese building development called “The Palace”. The ridiculously big screen rests about 82-feet off the ground, and it stretches about 656-feet. The total size of this incredible display is just under 65,000-square-feet! A total of seven Electrosonic MS9200P High Definition video players and VECTOR image processing are used to drive huge TV screen, and this combination of hardware allows for an HD-resolution of 1024 x 768. The LED canopy plays various shows throughout the night, and there’s even a gigantic vertical flat-screen display, attached to one end of the canopy, which displays content during the daytime. With a total of 14.5 million brightly-lit LEDs, this amazing overhead theater is enough to make just about anyone a little bit awe-struck.
Republican Party Convention

From the 2008 GOP convention, check out the size of this massive, 50 x 30ft high-definition screen. Love their politics or not, that’s a monster of a screen.
The GreenPix Project

Granted this is not a TV screen but its worthy of mention. This monstrosity, the GreenPix Project by Simone Giostra & Partners in New York and Arup in London. And you’ll be glad to know that this is a fully solar powered LED-panel wall.




September 14th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Hi - enjoyed your round-up of the world’s monster screens. How about mentioning the new Mitsubishi Electric screen for the Dallas Cowboys? It truly is a monster! Drop me an email if you’d like some more info.
Regards, Adrian
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October 2nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
wow can someone please pass me a towel? i have to clean off after seeing this tv’s
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October 2nd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Not sure if it’s worth a mention, but what about the screen at the Beijing Bird’s Nest Stadium? You know, the wrap-around across the top edge?
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October 2nd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
wish i had one
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October 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
http://www.vegasexperience.com/ is the Freemont street site, Also might want to note that it was from September 1994- July 1995. In 2004, it was upgraded with 12.5-million LED display and more color combinations than the original display, which was composed of incandescent lighting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Street_Experience
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October 2nd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I have a 92″ screen that will go up to 300″, if I wanted. and it cost me 900$… it’s a projector. Dont waste thousands on LCD when you can have a massive screen for a fraction!!!!
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Jay Hunter Reply:
October 8th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I’m looking to buy a projector. Which one do you have? Would you recommend it?
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October 7th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Heh this reminds me of that Penny Arcade comic they did about one of them. Link’s below, it’s a 4-part comic, just keep clicking next at the bottom.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/1/15/
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Gotta gree with Junebug here. This massive monitors are pretty and all…but at the same time, a high quality screen, high ANSI output, and HD resolution could compare with these monitors and costs only a fraction of the price.
@Jay - While I don’t have a specific recommendation, I’ve owned 3 sony projectors, and none of them have ever let me down.
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February 17th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Kaufman stadium in Kansas City. Currently the largest HD screen in the world until the cowboys stadium is built.
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