Samsung's Gorgeous LED Backlit HDTVs; Drool

[Marcus Yam]

More than anything else, CES has televisions – gorgeous televisions. Although some of the wow-factor has dropped off a bit over the years as now HDTVs can be bought in Wal-Mart, Samsung still pulled the covers off of something we now lust for...

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[wiyosaya]

Now if only Samsung would drop the glossy screen so that lights don't reflect and interfere with the picture, they might have TVs actually worth what they are charging for them. Glossy screens sell displays in the showroom, but are terrible in rooms where light of any kind reflects off the screen. Glossy screens really do nothing for picture fidelity.

 

[Pei-chen]

Wow, any price info on the 55" 8000?

 

[grieve]

Um yah... these make me want a new TV.

240Hz ?!! it seems like only a month ago 120Hz was released.

 

[Paul702]

I saw these there and i did drool! LOL, then asked when i would i could buy one... he said they were prototypes

 

[deltatux]

price please, this will sit well in my mind, just hope it's not like the shocker I got when I heard PS3's original pricing...

 

[bustapr]

Where do the inputs go? The whole thing looks too skinny for ani cable to fit.

 

[jimmy_kohli]

Old news, yet nice to get a perspective of the "old days"! So now, we have full array LED backlit models like LG 55LM9600, a whole new TV category in OLED TVs (LG OLED TV will be the first commercially available model), and still more revolutionary 4K and even 8K HD standards. TV makers are indeed busy in developing new technologies faster than customers can adopt them!