Isaiah's Tech

Samsung, finally! I've been waiting for G4 to fix the link for a while now, but it's all good. I still love G4 and their Podcasts =).

David Steel is the MC for today. Although, another asian man took the stage first. I couldn't understand his name, but that doesn't matter. This guy gives a lot of background information on Samsung. I mean, a lot of background information. I'm just waiting for the products. His accent is reminding me of Russell Peter's: Red, White and Brown stand-up comedy. Anyways, he gives the stage to another person, Patrick Barry, Yahoo's Vice President.

He mentions that Samsung is a leader in consumer electronics. He does a lot of talking, just like the asian guy. He mentions a new UI (User Interface) for future Samsung products. It looks like Yahoo is working with Samsung here, obviously. The asian guy comes back and talks some more... These presentations definitely needs more visuals. Like LG, Samsung will also feature the new wireless-HD technology. A video starts to play. A beautifully-developed video, regarding a TV. There will be a unified UI that will be seen in digital camera's and camcorders. They show another video, regarding some touch-screen UI's. The asian guy talks about how eco-friendly they are now... I'm starting to lose focus, but apparently, it will get better during the last half of the conference, which is coming up soon. Another video starts to play. It's a video about different consumer's mentioning some positives about some Samsung products.

Looks like it's time to start showing their products. Here we go, this is what we've all been waiting for. There's only 15 minutes left in the press conference, so this better be jam-packed with products. The Samsung Luxia LED TV. The 8000, 7000 and 6000 models i talked about here. He mentions that the Luxia series is 40% more energy efficient than original LCD TV's. They are mercury-free and also lead-free, which is beneficial to the environment. The 7000-display is shown live. It has a beautiful display, it looks friggin' amazing. I can't wait until they show the 8000. The 7000 will have a web-based experience and therefore, will be powered by various Yahoo widgets. Samsung created their own wall-mounts because the normal 2-inch mounts make the TV looks 'fatter' than they appear. Their wall-mounts set your TV only 0.6 inches away from your wall and it makes it look like your TV is "hanging like a picture." Here's the LED-backlit 8000 coming up. It delivers 240Hz refresh rate, which is 4x the traditional rate, apparently. It eliminates blur and he also mentions that it is beautiful. I can agree with that.

The Series-8 (?) display is only an inch thick and is also highly energy effiecient, of course. For gamers, there are 3D monitors for a new 'gaming experience.' This guy talks too fast and i can't keep up with how much information he is spewing out. The BDP-4600 has BD-live support and a bunch of other features. Breaking news. It will eject a disc in a second!!! OMG, really? Yes, you heard that right, it will only take a mere second to eject your disc. Did he seriously have to mention that? He continues to give so much useful information right after each other, but i still can't keep up and i've already mentioned that. Anyways, he shows a camcorder with 64GB of space. It is called the HMX-H106, i believe. Before the conference is over, he also mentions the P3 mp3 player (above), which will be only 0.39 inches thick. Sorry, that i couldn't get down all of the specs, but if you saw the press conference, i think you'd understand. I think it was a very inefficient conference for a typical blogger that actually tried to type some of the specs out. I'm not the fastest typer out there, but i feel that i type faster than the average user. The Samsung press conference in the end, was the one i was looking forward to, but it seems that, so far, the LG presentation has been the most entertaining. LG had slides and Samsung just had way too much talking.

Samsung press conference: http://www.g4tv.com/ces2009/press_conf_detail.aspx?video_key=35866
Samsung P3 mp3 player picture: http://www.trustedreviews.com/mp3/news/2009/01/08/CES-2009--Samsung-Shows-Haptic-MP3-Player/p1
Samsung Logo picture: http://www.oyster.ie/About_Us/Oyster_Telecom/Oyster_Telecom.html
Samsung TV picture (8000, 7000 or 6000 model): http://www.tvsnob.com/archives/023837.php