Sunday, January 9, 2011

CES 2011 Press Conference Wrapup

It all proposed with LG, who had a really churned event. There were a few cold announcements, but flops to go with any of them. After the "we had a great 2010" segment of the debate was over - that’s the way these things lend towards to start - you got to listen to a bit more about the large 12 billion dollar investment that LG done in their investigate and growth team. It sounds similar to you can design a few big things in the nearby future. LG had a burly concentration on "smart" products. It’s a thesis that they common in common with Samsung. Smart TVs, chic phones and even chic washers and dryers - LG’s got it all. And yes, you did read that right. LG has washers that let you customize a rinse cycle, dryers that can automatically optimize their own programming and even ovens that can content you to let you know they’re preheated.

Getting out of the kitchen and back in to the family room, LG voiced that rsther than than burst in to the Google TV waters, they’ll be rising a new chic TV stage of their own. The interface looks similar to a blend between a webpage and a line box menu, with a small bit of Apple ease thrown in for great measure. To run it, LG is introducing a suit coordinator that allows those that pick a easier interface to obtain the same experience as tech-savvy folks. 3D was a big segment of LG’s event, but they most shunned active shiver eyeglasses technology in preference of their motion picture type pacifist 3D TV. LG says it’s the most appropriate way to watch 3D movies but we’ll have to wait for until you go eyes-on to make a judgment.

Sharp strayed divided from conversing about 3D too ample and focused on their Aquos Quattron technology instead. They are rolling out 5 array of 70-inch televisions with the high finish being a 120 Hz LED that includes net related apps such as Facebook, Netflix, Vudu and Pandora. These were exceedingly large in person and definitely gorgeous. They are moreover let go 6 new array of not as big sizes with aloft Hz ratings together with 3D capable. Sharp is moreover releasing the Galapagos inscription in the States after success with the inscription in Japan.

Samsung was on the other side of the spectrum with their 3D offerings, braggadocio new and softened active shiver sets. They’re particularly focusing on large screens 55 inches and up. We know Samsung loves slim gadgets and this year’s offerings are no different. When the orator on stage denounced the new 7000 and 8000 line of TVs, all seemed normal. Then he took off the counterfeit bezel they had placed on the sets, divulgence only 0.2 inches of bezel.

It would be hard to exaggerate only how great these sets look, and the picture high quality seems to match. Even from the back of a mid-sized discussion room they outshined the rest of the displays on stage. Of course, we’ll still wish to obtain up shut for a better look. Plasmas didn’t obtain ultra-thin bezels similar to the LCDs, but they did obtain a size boost. Thanks to a few new tech, Samsung’s plasmas all got an in. speed up in shade size whilst maintaining the same complete size. They call it "Plasma Plus One."

Samsung introduced a few new features for their related TVs, inclusive one that will enable you to looking opposite all of your content - inclusive online sources - is to uncover or film you wish to watch. They moreover showed off a few apps, that entirely unsuccessful to impress. The leader of the big Samsung App contest is basically a diversion of Pictionary that requires a chic phone as a diagram tablet. Runners up enclosed a amicable TV observation app and every day aptness lessons. If Samsung really wants people to obtain on house with TV apps, they’ll have to do better than that.

Both Samsung and LG had great showings, but Panasonic didn’t really do anything to impress. The firm seems to be carrying out more of the same, and what new initiatives were shown only didn’t appear great. Let’s start with the good. Panasonic has a new plant that’s going to be pumping out bigger TVs, all of that are getting kicked up a bit in size. What would have been a 55 in. set in 2010 will be a 58 in. set in 2011. They’ll moreover be creation a few improvements to the already important opening of their plasmas. Higher-end models will brag THX acceptance and will deliver a filter to keep ambient light from your room from spoiling the abounding blacks of your TV.

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