Sony announced in Japan a few month back its filrst Ultra HD TV (4) with the XBR-84X900 a 84″ Wonder. Today at CES Sony announced the Bravia X9000A series a new 55 and 65″ Ultra HD TV for the US and European Market! The X9000A series comes with 4K X-Reality PRO, TRILUMINOS Display, Motionflow XR 800Hz, Passive 3D, Magnetic Fluid Speaker and so on! The X9000A series should it store shelves around April?
Samsung’s S9000-series Ultra HD TVs are two things: impressive and not cheap. We caught up with Samsung’s Joe Stinziano, EVP of Samsung America, to talk about the new set, some of the design and hardware decisions behind it, and – perhaps most importantly for the mass market – when we can expect to see 4K multimedia and cheaper models to reach the shelves of your local Best Buy. Head on past the cut for the full video.
As Stinziano says, right now the S9000 series is a luxury item. Samsung hasn’t announced actual pricing, but with the 85-inch ES9000 having a $10k RRP, and “only” offering Full HD 1080p resolution, we wouldn’t be surprised if the S9000 came in at twice that amount.
Samsung’s Joe Stinziano talks Ultra HD and the S9000:
It’ll take a while for the trickle-down. Samsung envisages more affordable Ultra HD models coming down the line within the next 3-5 years, while smaller sets will also begin to emerge. The first uses for the latter may well be in medical and digital media editing, rather than home entertainment, Stinziano predicts, where the extra pixels may be most immediately useful.
As for content, Samsung is pushing its upscaling technology – which can take 1080p video and squeeze some better quality from it – but Stinziano concedes that it’ll take a while for native Ultra HD to proliferate. He likens that to the transition from standard- to high-definition, another roughly five year process.
More on the Samsung S9000-series Ultra HD TV here, and more CES 2013 news in our show hub.
Samsung: 3-5 years for mainstream Ultra HD TV is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Samsung certainly knows how to grab attention, and the freshly announced Ultra HD UN85S9000 shown off at CES today is hardly shy and retiring. A whopping 85-inches of 4k-resolution screen, the vast TV – with a 110-inch version also in the pipeline – is incredibly bright and detailed, and even at a distance the quality and crispness is eye-catchingly impressive.
Samsung says the S9000′s industrial design – the easel-style frame – is intended to make the TV less intimidating in the lounge. In reality, it’s perhaps even more dominating than a regular set, the metallic-finish tubular frame leaving the screen almost floating in mid-air.
Samsung Ultra HD eyes-on:
Cleverly, Samsung has included speakers inside the frame, and unlike the typical wimpy drivers included in most TVs, there’s 150W of power to go with the picture. Upscaling from 720p/1080p to Ultra HD is also supported; useful, since right now there’s a dearth of native 4k footage around.
Samsung isn’t talking about pricing right now, but we can’t imagine the S9000 series is going to be anywhere near cheap. More details on the Ultra HD TV here.
Samsung 85-inch Ultra HD UN85S9000 TV eyes-on is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Samsung is going big with TVs at CES 2013: big in screen size, and big in resolution, with the record-setting 85-inch Ultra HD UN85S9000 at the top of a new HDTV line-up that also includes OLED models. The largest UHD set we’ve seen so-far, the Samsung UN85S9000 delivers four times the resolution of an 1080p Full HD TV, as well as 3.2-channels of 120W sound and all of the Smart TV functionality you’d hope for. Meanwhile, Samsung has refined its 55-inch OLED monster, with a special new 3D feature catering for two people wanting to watch different things.
Inside the 85-inch behemoth, there’s not only 2D to 3D conversion, but HD to UHD conversion, along with Smart TV features like streaming, apps, motion control, and voice control. It’s all powered by an A15 quadcore 1.35GHz processor, something you’d more commonly expect to find in a high-end phone or tablet, as well as support for the Smart Evolution Kit which will add new features further down the line. However, it’s likely to unusual easel-style mount which will grab the most attention (at least before the screen gets powered on).
Samsung has been pushing OLED as the Next Big Thing in TV technology, and the 55-inch KN55F9500 Real OLED TV is the latest iteration of the company’s vision. Built around the same quadcore processor as the UN85S9000, and with all the Smart TV functionality including voice control and streaming media, the OLED set is also the first to feature Samsung Multi-View, which uses 3D display technology to show two viewers (each wearing active 3D glasses) different content simultaneously.
That works in 2D and 3D, and even delivers stereo audio to the viewer thanks to tiny speakers built into the glasses. There’s also Smart Evolution Kit Connector support, and a new version of Motion Control gesture recognition that can better track hands held at up to 45-degree angles.
Most regular buyers will head to Samsung’s LED 8000 Series or LED 7000 Series sets, of course, also new for CES 2013. The 60-inch UN60F8000 borrows the 1.35GHz quadcore A15 of its bigger brother, along with the same Smart TV functionality, motion and voice control, and streaming from the web and mobile devices. It also gets Micro Dimming Ultimate for more precise control of the LED backlighting, and De-Jagging Pro for cleaner edges. 3D crosstalk is down too, by 30-percent, and even web content is meant to look better, with text and image processing applied to the TV’s browser.
As for the 60-inch UN60F7500, that sticks with the same quadcore processor but does without the Micro Dimming Ultimate technology; otherwise, it’s the same mixture of De-Jagging Pro smoothing, Precision Black intelligent contrast control, and improved 3D crosstalk prevention. Both the 8000 and 7000 Series support the Evolution Kit.
Finally, there’s a new plasma set on offer, the Samsung Plasma 8500 Series, with the 64-inch PN64F8500 promising the darkest blacks and brightest pictures ever from a plasma TV. It shares the processor and Smart TV features as its LED brethren, but adds Deep Black Algorithm II and Real Black Pro for a combination of computer-controlled white light reduction – keeping those black areas inky – as well as 2.5x brighter whites when necessary. There’s also a new “nanocarbon compound” used to reduce stray ambient light.
Samsung doesn’t have availability or pricing details for either the UN85S9000 or the KN55F9500, though neither is likely to be cheap. The LED 8000 Series will ship in the first half of 2013, along with the LED 7000 Series, and the Plasma 8500 Series.
Samsung reveals full Ultra HD, OLED and Smart TV lineup at CES 2013 is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Here at Stream TV’s presser at CES, we ended up taking a look at their Ultra-D glasses-free 3D technology, and even got our eyes-on with the new tech. However, not only is it glasses-free 3D, but it’s also at a 4K resolution of 3800×2160. If you think that watching 3D content without those fancy glasses is pretty crazy, you wouldn’t be too wrong.
However, it’s not completely what it’s cracked up to be. Our experience watching the demo was subpar. We certainly noticed the 3D, not quite as much as traditional 3D with glasses, but we definitely noticed heads and hands popping out at us — it was almost a trippy experience of sorts, but the quality overall was disappointing.
Sadly, the company had to sacrifice quality slightly in order to offer the auto stereoscopic 3D technology, which takes two different images at slightly different angles and merges them together, while flickering them back and forth faster than the human eye could notice, similar to how active 3D glasses work today.
What’s perhaps even more impressive is that current 1080p content can be upscaled to this 4K glasses-free 3D tech. The company even mentioned Apple’s Retina display, saying that while the technology is certainly there, the content isn’t the same story, and Stream TV says current content can be used for the 3D.
Stream TV Ultra-D glasses-free 3D eyes-on is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Today the folks from Stream TV proud to unveil, again, their Ultra-D glasses-free TV technology here at CES. What makes Stream TV different is not only do they not trick the eye with 3D, but they’ll be offering the first ever 3840 x 2160p 4K resolution support. The new tier of Ultra HD combined with their glasses-free 3D will bring the ultimate viewing experience. More details below.
There’s a lot that separates Ultra-D from the competition, although they don’t have much to compete with at the moment. Their technology is completely proprietary, although we’ve seen it before. Auto stereoscopic 3D will drive the 4k 3D market according to Stream TV. The difference between Ultra-D 3D and others is the use of auto stereoscopic 3D. You won’t be having two images tricking your eyes with a terrible flickering image. The auto-stereoscopic image is angled in a different way than before, and don’t automatically. It’s so good it looks as if you’re seeing out a window. At least according to Stream TV.
“This is bigger than the transition from black and white to color”
What also makes Ultra-D standout from the competition is the use of their proprietary technology being used on any and all available TV panels. This means LED, LCD, 4K TVs and more. Then add in the fact they’ll offer upscaling from 1080p to 4K. While 4K or “Ultra-HD” is still new and content isn’t quite readily available on a large scale. It’s coming, and coming soon. Add in the option to control and adjust the level of 3D, this technology is truly different than most.
The other important bit here is the source content. Watching movies, streaming video from Netflix, game consoles and more will all work with Ultra-D glasses-free 3D — and look great doing it. Today Ultra-D also unveiled their companion device called the Ultra-D SeeCube 4K. This will enable support for existing hardware to take advantage of Ultra-D glasses-free 3D. As well as streaming with mobile devices like the Apple iPad and Android smartphones and tablets. We’ll update with additional details and hands-on soon.
Stream TV debuts Ultra-D glasses free 3D at 4k resolutions is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
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[CES 2013] Vizio has every intention to extend their market leadership in large size HDTVs by offering a host of Smart TVs this CES, with the 80” Razor LED Smart TV with Theater 3D leading the line. Sporting an extremely slim frame design with a 2mm visible bezel, you get a 16-zone local dimming capability, Theater 3D for crystal clear and flicker free 3D, a host of Vizio Internet apps to play with and HTML5 support, a Wi-Fi Direct universal backlit remote control, and up to 8 pairs of lightweight, battery-free 3D glasses. (more…)
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Here you are Toshiba’s first 4K TV or Ultra HD TV to to hit US Shores, the L9300 Series! Available in 58, 65 and 84″ these new 4K wonders will comes with an Ultra-Slim Bezel, Toshiba’s new ClearScan 240Hz technology alongside the almighty new Cerevo 4K Quad and Dual Core processor, Wifi and Toshiba’s new Coud TV! Available in Japan since a few month and in the UK the L9300 Series is set to arrive Shortly in the US as well!
[CES 2013] The TV segment has always been an innovative one, and it is definitely not one industry that is willing to rest on its laurels. Well, Toshiba intends to expand their reach and muscle their way into the Ultra HD market thanks to the announcement of their LG-rivalling 84-inch 4K LED TV. Coming under the umbrella that is the L9300 series, this bad boy will also be made available to those who do not have such deep pockets, where it will arrive in 65-inch and 58-inch models as well.
Out later this summer, there is no word on pricing details just yet, but you know for sure that none of these are going to come cheap or affordable at all. A Toshiba representative claimed that the secret to Ultra HD would be the processing, although there would not be much native content at launch. Underneath the hood would lie a CEVO 4K Quad+Dual Core Processor and CQ Engine. We look forward to this monster of a TV ship later this year, and hope that resolution of media content would be able to catch up with the resolution count in due time.
Image courtesy of Engadget.
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