It's not just super-slim OLED sets on LG's IFA agenda this year. The South Korean tech giants are also diving into the realm of connected TVs, and their newly-revealed Smart TV seems the most aptly named of the bunch.
The web-connected set features a dashboard-style UI that houses a number of apps. These include Facebook, Picasa and Youtube among others, all pretty standard fare for internet-savvy screens.
Things get interesting however when the Smart TVs Wii-style Magic Motion Remote Control gets involved. Poiting and clicking to control actions on screen rather than using a traditional television remote control scheme, it'll let you try your hand at Yoga and First Aid lessons onscreen, as well as mucking about with a colouring-book app, with more wand-friendly features on the way.
The set will also complete with LGs Media Link, syncing numerous devices to the screen. According to the LG press release, Media Link offers:
"Instant access to online videos and images; users can easily upload things they've created themselves. And with a smartphone, leaving the house doesn't mean missing one's favourite programme because content can be delivered wirelessly. Whether connecting to an iPad, PCs, personal media players or home theatre systems, LG is expanding the reach of entertainment to every part of people's lives".
More on the LG Smart TV when it launches early next year.
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It's been heralded as the future of flatscreen TVs, but OLED screens have so far been so small and expensive that they've remained something of a novelty. Until now that is. Details have leaked of an LG super OLED set that, whilst sure to still break the bank, is an impressive 31 inches as well as being 3D compatible.
At just 2.9mm thick it's quite literally a "cutting-edge" design, measuring up as the thinnest OLED screen on the market. Super smooth images will also be on show thanks to a 600Hz refresh rate, halving to a still-impressive 300Hz for 3D images.
However, with OLED screens half the size and without 3D smarts still sporting £1500 price tags, expect this set to remain the reserve of only the super-rich.
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Apart from their high price tags, the need for a pair of active shutter glasses is a major factor slowing down the adoption of 3D TV sets. Jazz them up all you want, but they are in no way convenient, a problem even more pronouncedly uncomfortable for those wearing prescription glasses too.
However, a report from Japanese newspaper Daily Yomiuri insists that Toshiba are diligently working away at a glasses-free 3D set. While the tech giants wouldn't be drawn into any details concerning a precise product, they confirmed that it was a technology they are giving a great deal of attention to in their labs.
Toshiba have already showed a glasses-free 3D display earlier in the year, pictured above. Running at a WVGA 1280×800 resolution, it had 15 degree horizontal viewing angle and may prove to be an early prototype of what has been hinted at by the Yomiuri report.
Toshiba wouldn't be alone in their pursuit of glasses-free 3D either. Philips have already shown off a TV using lenticular technology to produce depth in images without the need for glasses, while Nintendo's hotly anticipated 3DS handheld console makes similar use of lenticular technology.
It's a no-brainer for Toshiba and co to crack 3D sets without glasses. Massive amounts of investment have been thrown at 3D technology for the home, and if glasses are the main gripe leaving consumers sitting on the fence, an alternative can't come soon enough.
Samsung are again looking to drum up interest in their forever-delayed OLED range. This time Sammy have been talking up the potential of a 3D OLED TV.
Confirming that a large OLED TV screen from their stable was still coming soon, Samsung's Brian Berkeley also said that OLED displays would be perfect for 3D screens due to their high contrast ratios and quick response times. A 3D TV using OLED technology from Samsung could be just "a few years down the line".
Fair enough if Samsung are holding out until they can merge 3D and OLED tech together into one super-TV, but I tremble at the thought of its accompanying price tag. They'd best get their act together if they're to make launching a smaller regular OLED HDTV worthwhile though - rivals Sony and LG both have 14 and 15 inch OLED screens respectively already available on the market, and the last thing an expensive, relatively niche product category like this needs is another competitor.
Via: OLED Info
LG have confirmed that they will be displaying a 31 inch OLED TV at this year's IFA conference. It will be the largest that the company have produced so far, and while bigger examples exist from the likes of Samsung and Sony, the LG display could be unique in that it may make it to shops before the year is out.
OLED TVs, with their superior contrast ratios, minimal motion blur and svelte sizes, were hailed as the future for TVs when they first popped up on show floors a couple of years back. But the increasing quality of LCD TVs (not to mention the high pricing of OLEDs) has kept them quite the niche product.
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Two new high-end sets have been added to Sony's 3D Bravia range this morning. The NX713 and NX813 3D TVs are yet another two options to bring your PS3 games and (eventually) 3D Blu-rays into the third dimension.
Apart from 100Hz motion processing in the NX713 model and 200Hz processing in the NX813, there's very little to set the two TVs apart. Both sport the monolithic design of the updated Bravia range with dynamic LED backlighting and Sony's Bravia Internet Video services.
The sets also have with an optional designer stand, tilting the screen at the optimal 6 degree angle and squeezing in a 2.1 channel speaker system in the base.
"With 3D capability, the connectivity of BRAVIA Internet Video and stunning monolithic design, the NX713 and NX813 are perfect for people who want both style and performance from their TV," says Christian Brown, Senior Category Marketing Manager, Sony UK.
"More and more people recognize that 3D will play an important part in the future of home entertainment. And with the NX713 and NX813 you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're ready to upgrade to 3D viewing as soon as you decide the time is right.
No price or release date has been set yet for either model, but we'll pass on the info once we get it.
Panasonic's next line of 3D TVs set to hit the US will feature 2D-to-3D conversion abilities, the company have confirmed. Aimed at gamers, the GT25 range will launch across the pond before the end of the year, with the 42-inch version one of the smallest 3D sets currently available.
However, the addition of 2D-to-3D tech doesn't come without some controversy, after Panasonic bosses recently slammed its quality.
Speaking to Home Cinema Choice magazine, Panasonic's VP Bob Perry had said that his company would not be adopting the conversion technology "just as a sushi bar should promise never to serve fake sushi-like food."
Likewise Panasonic Europe's TV chief Fabrice Estornel questioned the conversion tech's ability to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with "real 3D" content: "We don't think it's right to confuse consumers this early on with second-rate conversion technology."
The TC-P42G25 and TC-P50GT25 models are expected to feature in Panasonic's show at next month's IFA conference in Berlin, so expect more details to come in then, as well as word on whether or not the sets will be hitting UK shores.
Via: Tech Radar / Home Cinema Choice
It's not just super-slim OLED sets on LG's IFA agenda this year. The South Korean tech giants are also diving into the realm of connected TVs, and their newly-revealed Smart TV seems the most aptly named of the bunch.
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