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Samsung is in New York this week showing off to the press its lineup of TVs, appliances, video still cameras, camcorders and audio gear for 2008. Among the highlights are Samsung’s full-featured TVs, which the company is packing with premium add-ons to separate its line of DLP, plasma and LCD TV from low-priced competitors.
“Eight years ago, we were entering the wonderful world of HD and it was like eye candy,” said Jonas Tanenbaum, vp of flat-panel marketing. “Now the quality is so good we take it for granted so at Samsung we’re providing more technical enhancements such as 1080p and 120 Hz.” He said the features add $200-$300 to the retail price as premium add-ons.
The company demonstrated its InfoLink RSS service which is another way Samsung hopes to differentiate its flat-panel TVs from price-oriented models in the market. InfoLink TVs show icons for news, weather, sports and stocks in the upper left corner of the screen while consumers watch TV. During commercial breaks or boring passages, you can highlight a category and get news headlines, stock quotes or weather forecasts at the touch of a button. Select a news headline and you can read the text of a semi-transparent article on screen while still viewing the TV program in the background.
Content is provided by USA Today and is customizable according to Zip Code for local weather and sports scores. Users track stocks from a list of NYSE and NASDAQ symbols, which they can store for easy recall.
InfoLink is available on Series 6 650 and Series 7 750 LCD TVs, and Internet connections can be wired or wireless. A $35 Samsung USB dongle called LinkStick will deliver wireless networking capability when it arrives in stores next month.
Samsung also showed 3D demos on its new DLP and plasma TVs. According to Steve Panosian, director of visual display marketing, Samsung plans to roll out 3D capability to LCD TVs next year as well. Panosian said Samsung’s goal is to have 3D capability built in to TVs next year. Currently, TVs have to be connected to a PC to be able to play back 3D content.
While I like the idea in general, Most of the time I’d have it turned off. It would be as annoying as those stupid logos they put at the bottom of the screen to remind you what channel your watching.. Now however, if it had a build in web browser’s such as a version of Firefox or the like and allowed me to stuff the web and watch streaming video such as Hulu.com and the like, right on the tv, with out having to mess with a computer,and allowed me to use with a wireless keyboard or a 3rd party wireless keyboard to surff the net with and find what I want to watch and possibility adding a external usb hard drive would be nice to save downloaded movies or built in fash memory to save bookmarks on the web broswer.
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Yeah thats great & all that they are trying to
“set themselves apart”
I have these little flat panels in my showroom that have this feature called AQUOSNet that does the same thing! go figure. Samsung claiming victory of some bodies good ol innovations. Oh wait! Sharp actually uses multiple sights to give you online data at your fingertip. Samsung Uses a newspaper company…
Top notch…