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Samsung's Waterfall of HDTVs
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
Inverted HDTV waterfalls are always in style, and Samsung's was no exception. I'd like to have seen it under construction!
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Samsung Goes to 75-inches
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
No price was in sight for this jumbo Samsung 75" LCD/LED 3DTV. But it's edge lit, utilizes Samsung's Micro Precision Dimming, and should hit the shops by the second half of 2011.
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Samsung's 3D Arena
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
Sony's ultra wide fully LED media wall may have been bigger than this, but Samsung's, made up of individual LCD/LED 3DTVs was plenty impressive running 3D sports images.
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Samsung Projector Does 3D
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
No price, delivery date, or model number was offered on Samsung's 3D DLP video projector. It didn't look all that good, but possible culprits include the highly variable program material, the fact that the side of the booth opposite the screen was open to the well-lit show floor, the 3.0 gain screen (don't move off-center!), and seriously blown-out whites. But it did look much better than this prize-worthy photo.
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Panasonic Star Wars Announcement
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
Home Theater Magazine Editor Shane Buettner is on hand at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show when Darth Vader and friends announce the release of the Star Wars Video Collection on Blue Ray.
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B&W Zeppelin
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 

Home Theater Magazine's Darryl Wilkinson checks out the new Zeppelin sound system from B&W Group.

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Samsung 3D Monitor / 3DTV
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
No model number, price, or availability date was given for this Samsung 27-inch PC monitor/3DTV combination. But it can handle all 3D formats (the image on screen shows the side-by-side format in its native form before it's processed into a single, unsqueezed 3D image. The display includes an antenna input (it has a built-in tuner) and an HDMI port. You will need active glasses to watch 3D on it (it is not autostereoscopic).
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Samsung Video Wall
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
Entering most of the jumbo booths from major manufacturers is a gawkers delight. But Samsung's I Love Me Wall of HDTVs was particularly eye-catching.
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Toshiba Glasses Free
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
A trip back to the Toshiba booth will be needed to get a look at Toshiba's demo of glasses free (autostereoscopic) 3D. The crowds waiting to see this technology were huge. Still, I think all the hoopla about 3D without glasses is going to leave a lot of people disappointed. I suspect that it will either be years away (if it's ever perfected at all—not all technical challenges have a ready solution) or a serious step backwards in image quality—whether from Toshiba or anyone else. But I could be surprised. A similar demo from Sony, while hardly flawless, looked better than I expected.
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Sharp 3D Projector
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
While I don't have a great shot of Sharp's XV-Z17000 DLP 3D projector, it looked bright and beautiful on a 100" screen with a stated gain of 1.0. It was clearly one of the best 3D projectors I've seen so far, and also the least expensive at about $5000.
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LG Touch TV
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
Here's a way to encourage your kids to write on the wall—that is if the wall is an LG Touch TV which functions like a huge, modern-day, multi-colored Etch-A-Sketch. It's also a 2D plasma HDTV. But it's clear that not all of us are Rembrandt.
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LG's Big LCD
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
I normally would have enjoyed viewing this 84-inch LG LCD/LED 3D 4K set immensely (though it's not yet an available product). It enables full 2K 3D with passive glasses. But dropping my camera, resulting in serious damage, sent me scrambling to the Canon booth to see if they recommended my having it repaired (not at the show, of course). They did not. I needed a new camera anyway. Fortunately, with three days of the show left, I had brought along a spare.
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Standing Room Only
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
This isn't even the main show floor. It's just the midday activity in the Las Vegas Convention Center's grand entryway.
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Balloon Boy
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
TIVO Man, standing guard over the main entrance to CES 2011
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Sonus Faber Thinks Both Big and Small
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 07, 2011  | 
You'll probably read some blogs from our two-channel colleagues about The Sonus Faber, a fridge-size floorstander selling for $200,000/pair in a limited production run of 30 pieces. Playing a solo cello recording, TSF mustered some of the best sound at the show. But there were also brand new home theater worthy models at Sonus Faber's suite in the Venetian, namely the Toy Monitor Grand (center) and Toy Wall (upper righthand corner). They're sold in pairs, for $2,000 in both cases, but you can add the Toy Center for $995/each.

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