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Wait, this Disney lawsuit thing is news to me. What's up with that? You're right, in the consumer market, there's a much higher demand for 32-40" display. Our UHD controller can easily handle that and comes with 5x total input ports [ 3x HDMI(V1.4a), 1x HDMI(V2.0), 1x DisplayPort(V1.2) ] and can run 3840x2160 or 4096x2160 resolutions @ 120Hz.

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Dumbo is a Disney character, every bit as much of a character as Micky Mouse or others, just less popular.

Of course, by the time Disney notices you you'll already have succeeded, but you may be forced to change brand. You can do it now or later.

I hope to god the edid on your displays doesn't include 4096x2160 for 3840x2160-native panels the way LG TVs do; it's such a freaking nightmare to deal with any sort of gpu scaling or DSR resolution type options on my LG CX due to that

>Wait, this Disney lawsuit thing is news to me. Disney owns a trademark on the name Dumbo https://trademarks.justia.com/779/79/dumbo-77979919.html as well as copyright on the movie Dumbo of course.

I suppose they might think to argue that someone selling televisions with the name Dumbo would be trying to tie their product in with the Disney trademarked product. I don't think that would be considered too much of a stretch so I don't think you would do too well with continuing with that name.

I think he meant that DUMBO is a name of a disney character

This - sorry, I was being a smart arse.

Aah, gotcha! Boy, I really overlooked that one. My primary goal was to come up with an easy to remember name/domain that expressed "DUMB TV" and dumbo.tv was available. Oh well, I'll have to rethink that part through a little more.

Just don't change it to Dumbotron, however attractive it may sound :)

Edit: Nevermind, apparently they already did claim it.

Huge companies often dabble in a lot of stuff that people don't immediately associate them with, and hold trademarks for those products/services:

https://assets.catawiki.com/image/cw_normal/plain/assets/cat...

Just for fun and as a similar example

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/315/502/f76...

There's apparently a ton of them:

https://i.redd.it/aiahnmp5cd151.jpg

https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products/2021/7/14/...

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sN0AAOSwMRZilO98/s-l500.jpg

https://s3.amazonaws.com/hopshop-image-store-production/1707...

https://946e583539399c301dc7-100ffa5b52865b8ec92e09e9de9f4d0...

As has been stated in the thread, Disney has explicitly called out television sets on their trademark application for the term 'Dumbo'.

Whoever the TV maker is, do they have better lawyers than Disney? No? Better not to try then.

Disney makes character branded tvs. It is not a defensible use of the name.

The name Dumbo. :)

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