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Like a big-screen scab it just can’t stop picking at, LG continues to trickle out details about its upcoming CES 2013 smart TV range, including updated sharing, on-demand, 3D, and eco features. Having already told us about its Google TV line-up for next year, as well as some details on the high-end panels screen-centric subsidiary LG Display is particularly proud of, LG is now focused on streamlining the smart TV UI, with the new Smart Control interface paired with SmartShare with an NFC twist.

SmartShare already supported WiDi and Miracast, among other options, but LG’s new addition for 2013 is NFC compatibility. A sticker on the CINEMA 3D Smart TVs themselves will – when you hold your NFC-equipped phone or tablet nearby – automatically pair them and set up a streaming connection by whatever method is supported on both. There’s also streaming from LG Cloud, the online storage service announced earlier this year.

The new UI – which will work alongside the updated Magic Remote complete with Siri-style natural speech recognition – also includes a new recommendation engine, which LG calls One Now. That combines suggestions from live and on-demand sources in a single place, with thumbnail previews.

As for hardware, select models get faster processors and graphics – up to a 120-percent bump in CPU speed, and up to 300-percent more from the GPU – while bezels are slimmer and a new stand (which reminds us a little of Samsung’s ES8000) has been introduced. LG will be showing off OLED and Ultra HD models, among others; we’ll have all the news from CES 2013 next week.

LG details 2013 Smart TV: NFC SmartShare plus On Now recommendations is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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[CES 2013] LG has announced that it will demonstrate a new range of televisions including a huge 84″ that features a UHD/4K resolution, and a 55-inch OLED model which will be the follow-up of last year’s introduction of OLED televisions as official LG “commercial products”. It’s clear that UHD is best demonstrated with larger sizes and so far, most 84″ television that we’ve seen (including Sony’s own Sony XBR-84X900 84″ LED TV) have looked extraordinary.

However, the real question for both OLED and UHD TVs is: how fast can the prices drop? It seems really hard to sell a 55-inch OLED TV for $8000, so this has to come closer to $3000 before people start buying in volume. The 84″ has to drop by quite a bit as well. We’ve seen 70″ TVs (1080p) going for less than $2000, so although UHD is very good-looking, the lack of content and the high price tag may prove difficult to overlook for you and I. Yet, it’s hard to be insensitive to the sheer beauty of UHD on a 84″ display. (more…)

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You can’t win ’em all, right? Sure, 2012 saw its share of high points, but there were plenty of missteps along the way from companies both large and small. Unfinished products, serial delays, lawsuits and layoffs — after the break, we’ve got a list of some of the not-so-pretty moments in tech.

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LG Display has detailed its screen showing for CES 2013, spanning smartphone and tablet scale through to lounge-dominating behemoth panels, and most boasting high-resolution. At the mobile end of the scale, LG will kick off with a 4.7-inch panel with 1mm bezel, helping trim sizable smartphones down to hand-friendly scale, followed by a 5.5-inch Full HD “phablet” panel with huge 403ppi pixel density. There’ll also be a 7-inch tablet display, running at 1920 x 1200 for 324ppi.

Stepping up to laptop-scale screens, LG will trim bezels with a 13.3-inch LCD with a sub-2mm surround, while a larger 23.8-inch Neo-Blade Series LCD will do similarly narrow things for larger devices. LG also has a 12.9-inch 2560 x 1700 (QSXGA) screen for laptops and ultraportables, which is actually higher resolution than the panel Apple uses in the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, despite being slightly smaller.

LG biggest computing screen is a 30-inch 4K2K monitor, delivering 4096 x 2160 resolution. It’s expected to find a home in hospitals, used for reviewing high-resolution scans, as well as on the desks of designers.

Into the living room, and LG Display has several UHD (Ultra High Definition) 3840 x 2160 panels to flaunt. 55- and 65-inch UHD screens join the existing 84-inch panel, with Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) 3D technology for better quality passive 3D viewing. The company has also put its 55-inch OLED TV on a diet, running it down to 4mm thick and 3.5kg in total.

The rest of the display magic will be for broader purposes, such as a 47-inch transparent display, a 47-inch high-brightness display intended for better visibility when outdoors, and an 84-inch UHD Interactive Whiteboard. Finally, LG will have an eye-catching video wall, consisting of nine 55-inch FPR 3D displays.

LG Display outs CES 2013 spoils: Full HD phone/tab screens plus UHD TVs is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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When Samsung came swinging with allegations of OLED patent infringements and corporate theft, LG promptly counter-sued. Samsung then escalated by broadening its list of patent complaints, forcing LG to do what any dignified electronics brawler would have to do: file for a retaliatory injunction against the “sale, manufacture and importation” of one of Sammy’s products. The device at stake today is the unsuspecting Galaxy Note 10.1, which has no direct rival among LG’s current product range but which is claimed to have breached three LG display patents concerning the improvement of viewing angles. For its part, Samsung is dismissing the attack as “unjustified” and doesn’t seem overly concerned by LG’s demand for damages — nothing less than a billion won ($1 million) for each day the Note 10.1 continues to be made and sold.

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