CES 2010: LG's Booth Coverage (Updated with Video!)
We showed you a HDTV at just 10mm thin, but how about another at just 6.9mm thin? Sounds unbelievable? Get ready to brace yourself with fancy new TV technology, home theater equipment, mobile phones, notebooks, and more from the PC ecosystem coming later this year in this update from the LG show floor.
Infinia - Living Borderless with LG
For CE-giants like LG Electronics, the TV business is a big deal as this one segment alone makes up 50% of the team's revenue. So even though the LG Electronics team comprises of any and all electronics from home entertainment to kitchen equipment, the TV is always the company's biggest focus area. Little wonder that they announced 41 new TV models for the 2010 line-up and will progressively role them out in retail starting from next month. From yesterday's LG press conference highlights, we covered a great deal of new features and functions that consumers will get to see in their new lineup, especially the LED-backlit LCD TVs. Today, we'll move on to other interesting developments in the TV space, as well as other product segments. For those of you hoping to get a more visual feel of what took place at LG's vast booth, we've updated the article to include a quick video highlight:-
A pretty LG ambassador welcomed visitors to their impressive booth, which was almost encircled completely by LG's new Infinia TVs. Seen here is the top of the line LE9500. To find out more, on its features, check out our previous article in the related links section below.
Here's an overhead booth shot - the show floor is mostly devoted to their various TV technologies and educating potential customers.
Here's a showcase of LG's largest 3D ready TVs for the LED-backlit LCD segment and Plasma. Both are designed for active shutter technology based glasses, which offer better picture quality at the moment.
Also discussed yesterday were three breeds of LED-backlit LCD TVs from LG which will coexist based on the price point of the TVs:- Full LED Slim, LED Plus and LED. The latter two are edge-lit LED panels, with the Plus variant having simple localized dimming with up to 16 segments. The Full LED Slim is using a full array of backlit LEDs at the rear for the best picture quality and local dimming support. Picture quality aside, these various technologies also play a part in power consumption:-
What's shown in this photo here are the power consumption figures based on each LED-backlight variety. The most expensive new variety, the Full LED Slim has the lowest power draw thanks to lower-intensity LEDs powering up the various TV portions of the screen. This is in contrast to the standard edge-LED backlight variety where much higher intensity LEDs are required, thus the highest power draw among them.
Still wondering how the top-end sets work to support 480Hz TruMotion? LG breaks it down for you.
To further drive its 480Hz proposition, LG has this illustration to detail it.
Still on the LED-backlit LCD TVs, yesterday we showed you LG having a 10mm thin TV. Today, LG shows off an even slimmer version at 6.9mm! Now this version has all electronics stored at its base, whereas the model at 10mm thick has its electronics directly behind the panel. Expect these prototypes to enter the retail scene in the second half of 2010.
1 contrast ratio and is also made waterproof for expanding its usage scenarios like in the kitchen or restrooms.
Looking for the next generation in screen size and resolution? LG has on display an 84-inch LCD display supporting ultra high definition resolutions.
LG Home Theatre Equipment
LG is moving up the price ladder to offer premium home theater speaker system models such as this stylish HB994PK model. It's a 4.1 channel speaker system , supports Blu-ray playback, fully wireless speaker system for all units, including speakers and subwoofer and built-in WiFi for wireless networking.
Take a closer look at what tops both the front speakers - a VFD display on the left unit, while the right side gets a vacuum loaded Blu-ray disc loader. Stylish? Tell us your thoughts.
The LHB975 shown here is a WiFi network Blu-ray home theatre system. A tri-channel wireless system talks to the various sub-components of the system such as the speakers, AV receiver and subwoofer. The receiver is also endowed with WiFi connection and supports NetCast Entertainment Access for a wide variety of online content for viewing. So if your TV doesn't support NetCast, just upgrade your home theatre system.
This BD590 is a WiFI network Blu-ray player. It too boasts of NetCast functionality, and even has a 250GB hard drive to store media content and easily share it among other DLNA certified equipment.
LG was also showing off its reference speaker system, but unfortunately, it's not going retail.
The LG CF3D projector is the world's first single-body 3D projector. It uses a single lens but is powered by dual engines (LCoS) and dual lamps within. Specs include, 2500 Ansi lumens brightness, Full HD resolution, TruMototion 120Hz, triple HDMI connections and a LAN point. We even had a privilege to test drive one of these at the LG show floor. While it's not quite home equipment yet, LG promised there will eventually be a variant for the home.
Here's a cutaway illustration of the 3D projector's inner workings.
LG Mobile Phones
While mobile phones weren't the star focus at CES, nevertheless we found a few interesting phones that should stir up this scene.
The LG eXpo or otherwise also known as the GW820 is powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and supports a Pico projector, albeit not in the same way Nikon's projector camera does it. Other specs of the phone include a 3.2-inch WVGA touchscreen, 5MP camera, QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, WiFi, Biometric key and is available in both CDMA and GSM versions.
The WVGA Pico projector is an add-on unit to the mobile phone which has its own power pack and can be stowed away when not needed. This saves excess weight, size and battery life of the phone in day-to-day needs.
The Pico projector at work, but of course there's even better use.
How about watching trailers or mini clips? Here we have the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie trailer played back.
Here's the LG Rumor Touch. Has a new user interface, touchscreen interface, full QWERTY keyboard, a 2MP camera and has instant messaging and email clients. Targeted at teens, this phone is unfortunately only compatible with the CDMA network.
The GT540 runs on the Google Android platform and has a unified email manager, social networking manager, 3MP camera and is certified for Dolby Mobile. Thankfully, this model will be available globally.
Other LG Products
Utilizing the current Intel CULV platform and processor, the LG T280 ultrathin notebook sports a 11.6-inch screen, DDR3 memory, up to 500GB hard drive space, Windows 7 Premium, Quick Boot, Soft Handover (WiFi and 3G connectivity handling) and weighs in at 1.36kg with a 6-cell battery. Available from February 2010.
The LG X200 is the successor to the X120 netbook. This newcomer sports the newer Pineview CPU. Weighing in at 1.2kg, this chic designed netbook sports Windows 7 Starter, Quick Boot, and Soft Handover (WiFi and 3G connectivity handling).
The LG DP570MH isn't a notebook, but rather it's a mobile DTV and portable DVD player solution. Specs include a 7-inch LCD screen, built-in tuners and antennas, and lasts up to 5 hours on DVD playback or 2.5 hours on DTV viewing.
NAS solutions aren't exactly new to LG but this model is. The N2B1 is a dual-bay cousin of the quad-bay N4B2 that was available early last year. The N2B1 also has a Blu-ray rewriter built-in for mass archival, while the NAS functions are pretty much as expected. Furthermore, it's DLNA certified, comes with a multi-card reader, eSATA and more.
Samsung's Network monitor previously could handle 11 virtual PCs per real terminal. The 2010 model now support up to 31 virtual users for one PC. It's ideal for rollout in simple terminal style usage instead of purchasing complete mini systems.
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