Not really few years away for the US---It was in New York Today
Samsung hosted its annual Global Road Show, showing off huge flat-screen TVs and a new portable media player - plus a five-ways-to-heat oven and a four-door fridge!
Samsung Shows Flat TVs & Four-Door Fridge! Samsung hosted its annual Global Road Show, showing off huge flat-screen TVs and a new portable media player - plus a five-ways-to-heat oven and a four-door fridge!
Samsung threw out the gams and poured out the bubbly to showcase some cool prototypes and forthcoming products at its Global Road Show in New York City. Highlights included:
A prototype 40-inch active-matrix OLED (Organic LED) television which is HD-compatible and offers a WXGA 1200x800 widescreen pixel format. The display is driven by an amorphous silicon (a-S) AM backplane which enables fast video response times with low power consumption. Samsung's OLED technology enables wide viewing angles with no color filters, no blacklight, and a potentially very thin chassis: Samsung estimates that shipping display eventually be 3 cm or less in depth.
An 82-inch TFT-LCD TV with an 8 ms response time and a 1920 by 1080 pixel resolution. The display offers low power consumption and light weigh, and supports 1080 progressive scanning, which is essentially double the resolution of a 1080i display. A built-in HDMI port lets the display be used as a computer monitor, too.
A mammoth 102-inch progressive scanning plasma display panel (PDP) television with a 2000:1 contrast ratio. The unit also features Samsung's Digital Natural Image engine (DNIe) which provides for up to 68.7 million colors and a brightness ratio of 1000cd/m2.
The YM-PD1 portable multimedia player with DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) functionality and a built-in 30 GB hard disk for playing back movies and music. The player features a 4-inch TFT-LCD enhanced by Samsung's DEi technology, with a TV-out option for playing content on larger screens and home networks. DMB is a broadcasting format which isn't yet available in the U.S., but is making waves in South Korea for providing digital radio and television to mobile devices.
