New Samsung TV - with ethernet built in!

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just stumbled upon a demonstration of the new Samsung Series 9 LCD TVs
(well, yesterday, seeing as I live in Perth WA, which is still trapped
in the 70s with regards to shop opening hours).

I'm a major fan of the Samsung LCDs - I have a series 6 46" one at the
moment, but I think they have hit the HA sweetspot with this...

The TV has an Ethernet connection - CAT5 socket on the back - and an
inbuilt media player which can handle MPEG4 codecs. It has a USB
connection on the side to play your movie files from an external hard
drive. there's a little ambiguity of whether it supports an AC3
transport with xvid files, so that would need a session in the shop
with an external hard drive.

oh, and did I mention that it can read the movie files straight from a
network share? :D

The on screen goodness continues with an RSS Reader that will render
RSS feeds as transparent overlays on the TV.. pretty awesome.

the picture quality is (as you would expect from a samnsung LCD)
insanely good. this TV has an LED backlight matrix, allowing the
backlight to be selectively brightened and darkened, so the contrast
ratio is just brilliant.

I am *seriously* considering getting one of these... but probably back
in the UK. electronics are just too damn expensive out here in Oz...

Ian.


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