Spotlight: Samsung DLP Televisions

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Jan. 8, 2007

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Spotlight: Samsung DLP Televisions

Samsung has four (well, at least four) new lines of DLP TVs announced at CES 2007. The four models are the 75-series, 76-series, 87-series and 89-series. All of these models will be the slim line DLP, with depths up to 12". Also all the slim DLP series are wall mountable, so they're trying to compete in the LCD/Plasma space.

The 75 and 76-series DLPs are lamp based with the lamp and color wheel. The lamp based DLPs are thinner than the LED-based units, 12.3" at the largest screen size. The 87 and 89-series DLPs are LED-based and a little thicker at 15.4" at the largest screen size. For reference, my 61" 2005-series Samsung DLP is about 18" deep.

All of the aforementioned models are 1080p, have 10,000:1 contrast ratios, and include 3 HDMI ports. I wasn't able to figure out if the sets still used wobulation, but it seems from reading the press release that "no visible pixel structure" is a pretty strong indicator of wobulation.

I managed to corner Samsung engineer "J" who first gave me a disclaimer that the products are still fluid and any information he provides may change before the products ship. First, Samsung changed their color wheel. In previous years, their color wheel was RGBYM (red, green, blue, yellow, magenta), this year the wheel has changed to RGBCM (red, green, blue, cyan, magenta).

Next, the HDMI ports are version 1.2 on the main consumer line of DLPs (75-series, 87-series), while the flagship series (76-series, 89-series) will have HDMI 1.3. The flagship series will also have other features like USB 2.0 and Bluetooth.

All the 2007-series DLPs will support various "gaming modes". While they wouldn't go into specifics, they did say each setting would tweak the picture's response time and picture settings for gaming. There is a standard gaming mode, a sports gaming mode and an adventure gaming mode.

There was also a 71" 1080P DLP TV on display at CES. It is not a slim DLP, so it will have about a 20" depth. It was huge.

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