Over this week, we’ll be previewing all the rAVe Top-10 Tour Winners. Each product highlighted, will be on rAVe’s 2nd Annual Top-10 Tour at InfoComm. The rAVe Top-10 Tour is NOT a “pay for play” tour or product preview (like MOST AV publications do). These 10 products were selected from over 70 submissions from InfoComm […]
Samsung Techwin America’s Electronic Imaging Division is offering the SAMCAM 760 with a ‘Buy 10 and Get 1 Free’ promotion until June 30th, 2013. All schools and districts are eligible, with a maximum of 25 free units allowed per school and/or district. Place your order with your preferred Samsung reseller and the free unit(s) will ship at the same time […]
Samsung has a regular spot at the IFA Global Press Conference, an opportunity to tease the world’s CE press before the IFA Show in September. This year, the big question the audience wanted answered was what Samsung would do in 4K2K. While flagship products such as 85” had been shown, the real question was what Samsung’s response to 4K2K products in real-world […]
According to news reports, Sharp is in talks with Samsung on concluding a capital and business alliance. The two sides are believed to be in final negotiations, with Sharp likely to receive around 10 billion yen ($107M) in investment from Samsung, in exchange for a 3 percent stake of Sharp. We believe Samsung’s main purpose […]
Howard Stringer’s disastrous seven-year tenure as Sony’s CEO is nearly at an end, leaving it to successor Kazuo Hirai to rebuild – if he can – the castle Sir Howard leaves in ruins. Am I exaggerating? Sony will lose at least ¥220B in fiscal 2011, its fourth consecutive annual loss. As of fiscal 2011, the […]
Both Samsung and LG claim to have brought “the world’s first curved OLED TV” to CES 2013. The curved OLED TVs are both 55″ displays that appear concave when viewed from the front and even more bent from the sides. Apparently the shape improves on viewing angles, even if an over-enthusiastic Samsung PR describes it […]
Starting next week, Almo Professional A/V is bringing free certification training for the Samsung SUR40 40-inch HD Interactive Touch PC with Microsoft PixelSense to resellers, consultants and integrators across the country. The five-city training event kicks-off in Irvine, Calif., on Oct. 15 and runs as half-day morning and afternoon sessions. It features in-depth training from […]
A U.S. federal jury in San Jose awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages from Samsung for infringing on six patents. In a patent case that may alter the high tech landscape, the jury decided Apple’s patents are valid. The jury believed Apple did not violate any of Samsung’s patents. They also concluded Samsung willfully violated […]
Here we are, entering the third quarter of 2012 and looking back at the results from the second quarter. As we all know, the worldwide economy is by no means healthy or even on a good track to recovery. Financial worries in Europe, very slow growth in Japan, China and the USA are the key […]
Samsung Techwin America’s Electronic Imaging Division has announced the SDP-760, a budget-conscious document camera that outputs native HD (1920x1080p) at 30fps. Equipped with dual noise reduction technology, plus an 8x digital zoom lens, Samsung says the SDP-760 provides a clear, noise-less picture even in low-light environments. A a built-in single LED lamp is available when […]
Samsung and LGE spent much of last year fighting over 3D technology, with LGE aggressively promoting its passive FPR (film patterned retarder), with claims that it was better than Samsung’s SG (shutter glass) 3D TV, as its FPR enables a flicker-free, light and cheap 3D TV solution compared to shutter glasses. Samsung counterattacked by highlighting […]
Samsung is losing money selling LCD HDTVs and wants the product line to have its own P&L and company ID as it moves into the next phase of totally-networked based TVs. So, Samsung Electronics has decided to spin off it’s money-hemoraging LCD TV business into a separate company to be called Samsung Display Corporation. The […]
We all know that everything is becoming IP-enabled. Well, apparently Samsung is tired of waiting around for its dealers and integrators to become IP experts. The new Samsung IP Institute (SIPI) is a targeted industry training course that will provide the latest in IP video based, network design and integration skills. The SIPI Institute will […]
Fresh out of the gate here at CES minus one, aka, “Press Day,” the hot rivalry between Samsung and LG just turned white-hot at the blockbuster introductions of not one, but two, 55-inch OLED TVs (using two different technologies) from the two Korean CE giants. First came LG’s 55-inch OLED (uses white OLED, plus a […]
Sure, 80 percent of the attendees of this year’s ISE show in Amsterdam are European, but, it’s the sheer numbers of them that astounded me — and many others here at Integrated Systems Europe in February 2011. Literally almost 35,000 attendees scanned their badges as they walked into the 10 massive halls of AV exhibits […]
A few months after debuting its first flexible ePaper prototype displays, Liquavista BV (based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and spun out from Philips Research Labs in 2006) is being acquired by Samsung Electronics. Johan Feenstra is succeeding Guy Demuynck as the company CEO. A pioneer in ePaper technology (displays for e-readers, mobile phones, media players […]
What does a company with of $79 billion in sales last year (a 23 percent increase over the year before) really want? Well, Samsung is considering a plan to push interactive advertisements from other companies through Samsung’s phones and flat-screen TVs. Samsung’s new apps (similar to Apple’s store for its iPhone) lets consumers stream content […]
Weighing less than an iPhone, Samsung’s first Pico LED projector, the H03, will feature 30 ANSI brightness in a lightweight, fairly cool looking design – but it’s not official, yet. Samsungs says the H03 has been designed to provide the world’s brightest pico display solution with an “ultra-efficient” LED lamp that gives more than 30,000 […]
Samsung’s new flagship line of 3D LED/LCD TVs is featuring Silicon Image’s enhanced InstaPort S single-second switching technology. InstaPort S-enabled HDTVs will work with any HDMI-connected source and is designed to significantly reduce the four to seven-second delay that typically occurs when switching between HDMI-enabled devices connected to a TV – a MAJOR flaw in […]
Nokia Corporation, Samsung Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation last week formed MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) Consortium to develop a new mobile audio/video interface standard for directly connecting mobile phones and other portable consumer electronics (CE) devices to high-definition televisions (HDTVs) and displays. The MHL standard features a single cable with a low […]
Dubbed the HW-C770BS, Samsung says their new flagship receiver will only be $549 and will include four HDMI inputs (all scaled to 1080p if you want). It will be HDMI 1.4 compatible and is a 7.1 system, including 3D surround, Dolby Digital® True HD and DTS HD decoding and will ship with speakers. It’s not […]
So far, this is the brightest (if you believe the specs) LED-lit projector on the market. The LCD-based, SP-F10M is XGA resolution (1024×768), has both analog (VGA) and digital (HDMI) ports and weighs in at just under 10 pounds. Although the specs are impressive, the reason we’re covering this is that it’s spec’d at the […]
Although aimed at the ProAV market, it’s worth mentioning as LED-lit projectors are now bright enough for home theater applications – you’ll see a host of them entering the market from June-December. So far, this is the brightest (if you believe the specs) LED-lit projector on the market. The LCD-based, SP-F10M is XGA resolution (1024×768), […]
Last month, Samsung announced the $799 SAMCAM 860 — a 1.4 megapixel (SXGA resolution) document panel with 6x optical zoom, a “video recording on-board” feature and an integrated 32GB SD Memory card. Samsung claims the SAMCAM 860 outputs 30fps HD video with resolutions up to 1280×720 and even includes both video and audio outputs (for […]
We’re including a look at what we think is the coolest looking Blu-ray player ever: the Samsung BD-P4600. We know nothing of it’s performance or reliability (or how long it takes to start-up – a spec often, amazingly exaggerated by manufacturers of Blu-ray players), but we do know that it’s got a very low profile […]
Although we’re not big fans of document cameras here at rAVe, we still cover them as many of you are. The nicest one we saw at the show was probably the UF-130ST from Samsung. The $2000 UF-130ST is a native 720 output camera (VGA, DVI and USB) and it’s one of the first document cameras […]
NEC was first to the market in announcing their bezel-less LCD with the X461UN. Everyone decided to order it and it’s one of the hottest products not quite yet on the market today. Enter Barco. Last month, Barco entered the field with their NSL-4601 and they claim they are days away from shipping. Then comes […]
On the heels of NEC and Barco, Samsung has entered the narrow-bezel LCD market with the 460UT line of 46” monitors. Specificed at 700 nits or brightness and a contrast ratio of 3000:1, the WXGA (1366 x 768) LCDs are aimed at video-wall applications, too. But, Samsung is way behind because NEC and Barco are […]
AMIMON, Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp and Sony banded together to form a special interest group to develop a new industry standard for multi-room audio, video and control using Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology. They even say they’ll have it done by year’s end. The consortium points to the WHDI video-modem‘s ability to operate in […]
At the FPD International 2006 show in Japan, Samsung showed its anticipated 70-inch HD LCD panel. The company says this is the first display that can reproduce full HD video images at 120Hz with most LCD panels having a 60Hz refresh rate. The company plans commercial production of these 70-inch, full-HD LCD panels early […]
Samsung says the company developed a 70-inch LCD HDTV panel, which bests the current largest size of 65 inches (Sharp). Samsung will show this display for the first time at the International Meeting on Information Displays (IMID) 2006, which will open in Daegu, Korea on August 23. The company says this high definition panel has […]