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The Hideaway Home Theater: C Seed M1 Foldable 165-Inch MicroLED TV

07.21.22 | By
The Hideaway Home Theater: C Seed M1 Foldable 165-Inch MicroLED TV

C Seed calls their M1 television the “the world’s first foldable 165-inch microLED TV, and we don’t doubt it. While we’ve seen impressive strides in the OLED category, with LG’s OLED R rollable television the most exciting, it pales in size to the enormous 165-inch 4K screen designed to fold up and completely disappear into the floor, making it an extraordinary technological and engineering feat of, “now you see it, now you don’t.”

Folded television lowering into floor.

The C SEED M1’s largest 165-inch model is obviously the most imposing and jaw-dropping, but C Seed will also offer it in more “modest,” 103-inch and 137-inch versions, in the option of Silver, Gold, Black, and Titanium finishes to complement a range of interiors, with the bonus of an integrated 2.1 soundbar audio system to keep the streamlined design intact (with the option for an external audio 9.2 system set-up).

Detail of M1 folding up.

M1 MicroLED display folding open or closed.

M1 from front folding open or closed.

The M1’s fold-away design is made possible with the use of aviation-grade aluminum alloy “wings” paired with 4k MicroLED technology, rendering images with the deep blacks in 4K detail and rated for 100,000 hours of viewing. In addition to on-board HDR Plus (High Dynamic Range), C SEED´s Adaptive Gap Calibration Technology (AGC) renders borders between the display’s five individual sections as one seamless and continuous plane when unfolded. Watch the movement and mechanism below:

C SEED Managing Partner, Alexander Swatek describes the M1 system as a response to big wall-mounted TV screens that inhabit spaces as an  “anachronism in modern interior design.” That might be a bit of hyperbole, but few will deny the M1 isn’t a dramatic, immersive and technologically impressive alternative to the standard television or even projection-based home theater solution.

Gregory Han is a Senior Editor at Design Milk. A Los Angeles native with a profound love and curiosity for design, hiking, tide pools, and road trips, a selection of his adventures and musings can be found at gregoryhan.com.