These Are the Only Cables Coming Out of Samsung's New TV

The idea is so simple it’s kind of amazing no TV maker thought of it before. Mounting a TV on the wall should, theoretically, look gorgeous, but the tangle of cords jutting out of the back of the TV, pushing it away from the wall and then dangling down to wherever the cable box, PS4, and Wii U reside, is ugly. So Samsung did something that strikes you, innately, as both backward and forward thing—it moved all the ports of the TV.

The idea is so simple it’s kind of amazing no TV maker thought of it before. Mounting a TV on the wall should, theoretically, look gorgeous, but the tangle of cords jutting out of the back of the TV, pushing it away from the wall and then dangling down to wherever the cable box, PS4, and Wii U reside, is ugly. So Samsung did something that strikes you, innately, as both backward and forward thing—it moved all the ports of the TV.