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Rounding up all the non-HDTV, non-P4600 devices showcased at Samsung’s CES 2009 event, we managed to get a closer look at the HMX-H106 camcorder, HZ10W camera, P3 PMP, and HT-BD8200 soundbar, none of which were really in the mood to play. That didn’t stop us from snapping some glamor shots, which you can peep in the gallery below.

Filed under: CES, Digital Cameras, Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Samsung HMX-H106, HZ10W, P3 PMP and HT-BD8200 soundbar on display originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, Panasonic’s 0.33-inch thin Neo PDP might have just redefined our definition of thin, but the new Samsung HDTV are quite the lookers. The form factor, like the company’s touted UI initiative, is fairly unified in appearance across all models. Frankly, we had a pretty hard time telling them apart, and all we could really think about is how awesome they’d look in our living rooms. Hard to tell from the gallery below, but trust us, the picture quality is very crisp and clean. Now if we could only get a glimpse of Internet@TV in action.

Filed under: CES, Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment

Samsung LCD 750, Plasma PDP 850, new LED series hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While Sony’s OLED TV is little more than a beautiful, 11-inch novelty, LG is swaggering dangerously close to a respectable kitchen TV with this 15-inch AMOLED TV prototype. On display here at CES and planned for a production run sometime this summer, the image is absolutely stunning — every bit as impressive as the Sony’s XEL-1. Nothing else compares to the incredible contrast achieved by these OLED displays. Have a look in the gallery — we’ve got the prototype pictured with and without its chubby TV bezel. It’s credit-card thin (0.8-mm) and only on Engadget.

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Eyes on with LG’s near-production 15-inch OLED TV: come on summer originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not that we really needed Sony to tell us something we already knew, but we certainly appreciate the gesture. The hotly anticipated VAIO P is for real, and it’s coming in as the world’s lightest 8-inch netbook at just 1.4 pounds. The Vista-based device packs an almost unbelievable 1,600 x 768 resolution LED-backlit XBRITE-ECO LCD display, 802.11n WiFi, 3G WWAN, Bluetooth, a battery good for four hours (eight hours with the optional high-capacity cell) and a GPS module for good measure. You’ll also find an instant-on mode that launches directly into Sony’s Xross Media Bar interface, and the inbuilt webcam will keep the video chats going well into the morning. It’ll start shipping in early February (in garnet red, emerald green, onyx black, crystal white and classic black hues) for $900 and up, and you can peek the full release just after the break.

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Sony gets official with VAIO P: world’s lightest 8-inch netbook originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yes, we know just how hard it can be to take pictures with your standard compact digital camera, what with the whole shutter button and all. Thank goodness for Samsung, who will take ease of use to a “new level” this spring with the TL100 slim camera, capable of automatically detecting whether you’re taking a picture of a mountain or a person and toggling the appropriate mode accordingly. It can even go ahead and just take the durned picture for you in certain modes, able to tell when everyone has their eyes open or is beaming a sufficiently big enough smile. It will also take 800 x 592 videos at 20fps, and manages to pack a 2.7-inch TFT LCD into a body that Samsung says is just 16mm thick — if you don’t count the protrusion from the 3X lens. Since that lens is decidedly non-removable, we think we will.

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Samsung taking all that complexity out of pointing and shooting with the 12.2 megapixel TL100 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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