Samsung's 85-inch 4K TV to Cost €40,000
Better start saving.
Samsung's booth at CES this year was TV heaven. One of the glorious TVs on display was an 85-inch UHD 4K unit dubbed the S9. Of course, we fell in love, knowing full well that we probably didn't want to know the price of this easel-style TV. Still, these things have a way of coming out, even when you don't want them to.
The Telegraph last week reported that the S9 will come to Europe this coming spring with a €40,000 price tag. Though the newspaper didn't report on a UK-specific price, it translates to just shy of £35,000 by today's rates.
If an 85-inch TV still seems a bit on the dinky side to you, you'll be pleased to know Samsung is also planning a 110-inch version of the S9 for launch later this year. We don't dare hazard a guess as to the price of that particular gadget.

I was being optimistic. Probably they will just tap into my optic nerve by then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil#The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines_.281999.29
I just wait until 8K TV's are standard and retail for just 2K-5K average.
NB: for that kind of money, you can buy an excellent home cinema with a top notch beamer, a screen and speakers and even a few sofa's. But it's nice that some manufacturers are actually doing the effort to bring this to the market as a proof of concept. This is how the technology evolves...
Hmmm. let me see, so I upgrade my S3 not to the S4 phone then but to the S9 making me the owner of the worlds largest smart phone :-)
OK, I'll lay off the silly juice now
I think Samsung would make more profit if that screen was $7000 and they sold 200 in a year instead of 1 huge tv at 40k where they sell 1 every 2 years.
JVC has a 4k camcorder for under $5000, came out 18 months ago. This is one area consumers are ahead of the broadcasters. So, yes content in 4k is available and it has been.
Buying a TV this expensive without any material available is pretty stupid. Buying a TV this expensive to watch someone else's crappy home videos might just be worse.
They're not trying to make money off of this. It's a halo product. Probably also a technology testbed for Samsung. What they learned from designing and manufacturing this set will be applied to future generations of the product.
An 84" 4k TV has a PPI of about 52. That's about half the density of a 21" 1920x1200 monitor. If you can't tell the difference beween a 21" 1920x1200 monitor and a 21" 960x540 monitor from a significant distance, you are blind as a bat.