Samsung 'Pushing Boundaries' with Televisions

Beneath the theme "Pushing Restrictions," Samsung desires to make its new kind of Televisions the center of an entertainment hub through which audiences share content across items.Among the PC features are multitasking programs (and that means you don't to prevent your Netflix application to evaluate game scores), slots at the rear of the Televisions to update software, together with a sizable and rapidly growing selection of programs.They'll have a built-in video camera and microphone make it easy for video chat, and receive voice and gesture instructions (a demo used a swiping motion to navigate channels and poking movement to press some control to produce purchases).The digital camera-fitted Televisions may also get face recognition, to enable them to sense which family member is watching.One application moving from Samsung's cell phones and pills might be the Samsung Media Hub, Samsung's content store for buying movies and tv shows. Another application, having its roots in Hollywood can get its first TV-maker partner: Technicolor's M-GO application, which puts bonus content around the handheld or tablet screen within a film or Tv program.Ough Baxter, prexy of Samsung Electronics America, revealed their high-finish ES 8000 TV line. Greatest screen inside the line is 75" diagonal. All boast dual-core processors permitting application multitasking, as well as the slim bezels that are this kind of trend within the TV industry. Its Smart TV line will grow by 60% this year.On 3d TV, Baxter mentioned Samsung has offered 12 million 3d Televisions worldwide and half of people offered this year might be 3d enabled. He acknowledged, "Everyone knows there's insufficient content to produce 3d essential-have feature, and this year we're putting the primary concentrate on developing a library of 3d content that might be streamed." Among people guaranteed include SyFy's "Battlestar Galactica" in 3d.Also going to Samsung TV is "Angry Wild wild birds" just like a streaming application. The on-demand streaming HD funnel, free on Samsung Televisions, might have "Angry Wild wild birds" animated shorts.The best excitement within the presentation came from in the unveiling of Samsung's 55-inch OLED TV, that delivers a picture vibrant and apparent enough being startling even far. It's each of the features in the other high-finish Samsung Televisions: dual-core processors, built-in camera and microphone, and 3d. Cost-free point was stated.The Korean electronics giant also used CES to show techniques to future-proof its Televisions to make sure that customers don't have to purchase alternative sets as frequently -- something clients happen to be slow to accomplish.Within a crowded ballroom within the Venetian Hotel and Casino, Samsung revealed new "smart" hardware that mixes the thing that was considered when the hallmark of computers, additionally to voice and gesture controls.Samsung might be no. 1 TV brand for your sixth consecutive year, and needed charge in global business in cell phones the first time a year ago. Contact David S. Cohen at david.cohen@variety.com