![]() ![]() It was only several years earlier that the LCD screen made its debut in a wristwatch (a Citizen, I believe), but technology rapidly progressed, and the experimentation Japanese firms engaged in was really incredible. This is the most popular version of the Seiko TV Watch that was sold in America. The packaging refers to the watch as the reference RTOIA, but the correct reference number classification is the Seiko T001-5019. In 1984, the Seiko TV Watch officially came to America. ![]() This is pretty much the definition of what watchmakers have been trying to do with the timepiece for centuries. This was a really serious innovation for Seiko, and again, part of a larger trend of creating high-quality miniature electronics that, include as many features as possible in a small space. Another video shows an actual Seiko television advertisement for the TV Watch that rides the James Bond wave and also focuses on technology products such as this being part of the utopian future people were hoping for. The relevant scene from “Octopussy” is in a YouTube clip below. In 1983, Seiko got lucky because the Seiko TV Watch was more or less cast into a 007 James Bond movie scene. Seiko was absolutely correct that people wanted this, even if, to a large degree, they were ahead of their time. Walk around in public today, and it is hard to not see at least some people watching video content on their smartphones. Looking back on this concept, I think it is easy to say that the people at Seiko were ahead of their time. ![]() At the time the Japanese market was entirely OK trying to invest in new consumer needs and habits - so, why not assume that a lot of people traveling on public transportation might like to watch television on their wrist, similar to how they might listen to music or the news, all on their wrist. The watch is an incredible item because it didn’t have a clear consumer purpose when it was released. I first saw the Seiko TV Watch at the Seiko headquarters in Japan on display as part of the company’s personal museum collection. So, why not try to put a television onto a wrist? The cost of quartz-based movements had fallen steeply, ambitious technology companies in Japan were fervently trying to engineer “the next big thing,” and the Japanese were the kings of miniaturization at the time. Starting in the late 1970s and moving into the 1980s, the wristwatch became an epicenter of consumer technological innovation. The wristwatch as a form of communication device really started much earlier with things like the Dick Tracy radio communication watch and continues today in the form of modern smartwatches. The Seiko TV Watch may have been just another oddity in the form of a wrist-worn gadget, but the device captured the public’s attention and was part of a larger fascination people still have with wrist gadgets. They called it the Seiko TV Watch, and today, I go hands-on with an original piece and the set of items that came with it. Finally, the total height of the TV on the wall is the sum of these values, precisely the same as the ideal TV height formula from the previous section.In 1982 (my birth year), Seiko watches in Japan introduced the world’s first wristwatch with a built-in liquid crystal display television screen. The ratio between vertical and horizontal lines equals the tangent of the tilt angle, so the additional height above the eye-level is h = HWD × tan(Φ). The one between your eyes and the TV's center. Vertical one from the eye-level to the center of the TV and The horizontal distance between the viewer and the TV If the tilt angle is greater than zero (usually between 10° and 20°), then you can imagine three lines that form a right triangle □: When the tilt angle is zero, the TV mount on the wall equals the watching height. Our TV mounting height calculator is here to help! "How high should I mount my TV then?" - you may ask. If your head tilts when sitting on the sofa or the armchair □️, the ideal TV height naturally increases. We assume it's best to watch a screen when it's at the same height. One of the crucial factors is watching height. As we know how high to hang a TV, it's reasonable to ask why the tv mounting height equation remains as it is.
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