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LG's Eye-Poppin' OLED TV Is Amazingly Thin Smart TVs haven’t exactly set the premium TV market on fire, but the one area where they have grabbed telly watchers’ attention has been in providing catch-up TV opportunities. Sony’s just announced that by mid-year it’ll add Channel 10 to its lineup on compatible Bravia TVs.
When Panasonic launched its Australian 2012 TV range, the talk was all about multi-tasking; when Samsung did so it was all about Smart TV and exclusive content. LG’s pitch to get you to buy a new telly this year is strongly tilted towards the quality of its 3D offerings.
At last night’s launch of its 2012 TV range, Samsung was at pains to promote its Smart TV offerings, which this year will include fitness apps, Foxtel and both talk and physical navigation options.
At last night’s Samsung TV launch, the company announced that from 2012, selected TV models would be capable of being “upgraded” to match the next year’s features, for a $149 fee each year. Is that a case of brilliant future-proofing, or subscription TV buying?
IKEA constantly manages to churn out innovative, affordable products. The latest, however, is seeing it move directly into the technology sector: it’s launching its own TV, which comes integrated into a piece of furniture to completely banish cables from your home.
Big news for anyone with a big living room and bigger wallet: LG’s 55-inch OLED TV will be the first of the pack to arrive, debuting in May for $US8000.
If you suffer from the most enviable predicament of having both too much money and too much wall space, the UK’s premiere high-end retail outlet would like to speak with you — something about a 152-inch plasma TV.
Transporting stuff cross country is a tiring and lonely task, but bolting a 32cm-wide flat screen on your semi-trailer’s dashboard, hooking up a DVD player, then allegedly driving erratically on the Hume Highway is probably not the best way to go about it…
Kogan’s latest TV deal has a pretty spectacular price point for a display that large, although there is one slight catch; aside from the normal Kogan issue that you can’t exactly check the quality in person, it’s also a pre-sale price (although seemingly not one subject to Liveprice upticking) for a TV that won’t ship until May 8. If you know you’re going to want a TV in six or so weeks, though, it’s a very appealing price point. [Kogan]
You can go on and on about how great the flatscreen TV in your home theatre is, but I guarantee it won’t hold a candle to the image, brightness and colour quality of Dolby’s $US40,000 reference monitor.
