I was in Best Buy today, and I saw a refrigerator with a TV screen

[maveric]

built into the door! What the fuck is that? Will people actually sit in front of the fridge to watch reality shows?
Our society and culture is in serious decay.

[are_we_united_yet]

1. BestBuy

Sinclair.

[CaOs]

7. I saw that too

A couple months ago.........this is why people hate america...there are people starving all aruond us.

[Kolesar]

2. I would like one over the kitchen sink

So I can watch John Stewart when I am cooking or doing the dishes.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. They make 9-13 inch tvs just for that point.

You don't need one on the fridge. It's silly and what happens if it breaks? Cause you know it's gonna!
Duckie

[Kolesar]

8. When it breaks, you put a calender over it

Unless you are made of money, then you scrap the whole refrigerator. Ah, consumerism!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

11. LOL

[flamingyouth]

13. My mom has a little TV like that in her kitchen

She's always in there making elaborate meals, so she spends a lot of time in there and loves her TV. You're totally right; having one built into the 'fridge is silly! :D

[Booster]

4. This is for people with a serious eating disorder.

[napi21]

5. It's a computer screen. You can program all different things into it.

I've not seen them in the fridge, but I;ve seen several different ones that control lots of different things, call up recipes, set appliances, etc. They're really pretty neat! Wish I could afford one.

[maveric]

9. And a TV screen too. They had it hooked up to cable.

[jmowreader]

18. My two favorite computerized appliances (so far)

are...

* the GE washer-dryer pair that has a serial cable running between the washer and the dryer and a weight sensor in the tub. The washer determines the weight of the load when it's dry and again when it's wet. The dryer has a weight sensor in the drum and a moisture sensor in the exhaust. You wash your clothes and it will know how much water is in them, and from there how long to dry them to get the weight back to the pre-laundry point. (The moisture sensor is there on the off chance you threw wet clothes in the washer; if your clothes get to the pre-laundry weight and there is still too much water in the exhaust, it switches to analyzing the exhaust.) Very energy-efficient and your clothes don't take as much abuse.

and

* the Miele MasterCook oven. Tell it what you're cooking and how much of it there is and the oven takes over.

I also like the (IIRC) Frigidaire oven with the refrigerator element in it. This is not silly--you put the food in it before you go to work, tell it what you're cooking and when dinner is to be ready, and it keeps you from getting ptomaine from leaving your food out all day.

[Pithlet]

21. I want that washer and dryer

I like the ones we have, but they are very basic. The developer threw them in to sweeten the deal, but now I wish we'd just bought our own. I would have liked to get something like the ones you just described.

And that oven/refrigerator thing sounds wonderful. Refrigerators with TVs on them just don't make much sense.

[jmowreader]

26. The only thing I would want added to the Profile Harmony line

is a front-load washer. Front-loaders use less water than top-loaders to wash the same amount of laundry.

My appliance guy and I were discussing this particular subject one day. He mentioned that you have to be very careful when putting a really large washer in an older house. It seems that older houses, like mine, have a 1-1/2" drain pipe for the washer. Plumbers are starting to put 2" washer drains in new homes because the new high-capacity washers are taxing the abilities of a 1-1/2" drain. "But front-loaders," he continued, "work very well with a 1-1/2" drain because they don't use much water."

Maytag has a front-loader in their Neptune line, and it's pretty damn sweet. But the sweetest appliance on the market, bar none, is Maytag's Neptune Drying Center. That's the one that has a tumble dryer with the drying cabinet above it. They want a thousand dollars for it, no one stocks it (Maytag has a factory-trained technician deliver and install it) and we sell, on average, two a day. Hell, I've sold three myself and I don't work in that department. The appliance sells itself.

[Not Me]

6. I saw it last week. $3200!

It was an LG stainless steel refr/freezer with an lcd screen (hd screen--I think) in the refrigerator door.

Similar non-tv version was $1099.

Cable/directv charges extra of course.



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[DemOperative]

10. Holy. Shit.

what, no hands free phone/camera/bidet? What kind of fridge is that?

[dolo amber]

12. I saw a commercial for that

one of the rare times I was actually watching television. Unbelievable. :wtf:

[Texasgal]

14. Good GOD!

We are so TELEVISION DEPENDENT! Geez....

[salvorhardin]

15. ...but is it internet ready?

'cause if it ain't got gigabit ethernet, then what use is it? :shrug:

Oh, and does it run Linux? ;-)

[qnr]

16. Kill the evil beast! It probably has an RFID scanner - bleagh n/t

[jmowreader]

17. It's a fuckin' LG, what do you expect?

Look, the US appliances market is SATURATED, dig? You got the old names like GE and Frigidaire and you got the super-fancy mostly-Euro names like Miele and SubZero. The only real open place in the market is the dirt-cheap end that brands like eWave (which is one of our house brands) inhabit.

LG wants to get in at the high midrange. This is where a lot of customers shop, because you're at the top of the Maytag and GE lines and entering into Jenn-Air territory. It's fairly affordable, but expensive enough that not everyone will have one. But to break into that territory, they need New and Innovative Features. They can't just do elevator shelves--everyone has that. They can't just do filtered water through the door--everyone has that. But no one has Television In The Door. Except LG.

I like LG's computerized washer-dryer pair, but it's the same price as the GE computerized pair and the LG ones aren't networked like the GE.

[Lisa]

19. hey, instant appetite suppressant!

Switch the channel to a Bush speech. Not only will you no longer feel like poking around in the fridge for snacks, but you won't even want to hang around the kitchen!

Think of the weight loss, people!

[philosophie_en_rose]

20. What's next? Television on the toilet seat (for guys)?

In the shower? On the operating table? :puke:

[barb162]

24. I saw some house on TV that had the TV built into the bathtub, a

bathtub that probably cost 20,000

[barb162]

25. that way they don't have to take their magazines to the toilet

[Endangered Specie]

22. Can you surf the internets on it?

[barb162]

23. those things are so ridiculous; what ever happened to pen & paper

when you need some food item.

At some stores they have these $5000 fridges, stoves, outdoor grills. gimme a break