Hands-on with Samsung's new holiday lineup

We got a gander at Samsung's fancy new tellervisions and other stuff, and while the basic design language hasn't changed a whole ton in recent years, there's always something new going on. We're particularly enthusiastic about the new Series 8 LCDs, which manage a standard complement of ports in 2-inch thick form factors -- none of that ports-in-the-base nonsense. The cute little InfoLink RSS widgets (pictured) are also quite the welcome addition to Samsung's lineup, since these days we really can't be bothered to lift our phone up to eye level and check the weather on there. We bet you think we're kidding. Samsung is always droning on about the "Touch of Color" design, which is present in all its new televisions, along with its new computer monitor / TV hybrid displays. The flavor of the month is a new honeycomb pattern worked in with the color, but we really couldn't care less -- we'd rather watch TV. Elsewhere in the event we got to handle Samsung's new cameras and camcorders. The new TL34HD is a particular stunner, though we do prefer the older black / blue color scheme. Nothing could have prepared us, however, for the SC-MX20. While in press photos it appears to be just another cheap-ass YouTube camcorder (which it is), in person the build quality and amazing color choices really blew us away -- and trust us, no one is more surprised than we are by this fact. Most everything on display will be available next month.

Gallery: Hands-on with Samsung's new holiday lineup

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[Evan @ Jul 23rd 2008 1:27PM]

Wake me up when they release some OLEDs.

[kjb434 @ Jul 23rd 2008 1:43PM]

Good night Rip-van-winkle. I'll wake you up in a couple of years.

[Mike @ Jul 23rd 2008 2:25PM]

Especially since most people won't be able to afford them for some years to come. For instance, who is going to fork over $2,500 to BestBuy for an 11' Sony OLED. It's just not worth it, unless you have an absurd amount of money and you want to be one of those early adopters.

[ThePerfectCompanion @ Jul 23rd 2008 1:29PM]

Mine!

[Dave @ Jul 23rd 2008 1:32PM]

digital convergence is sexy

[iEye @ Jul 23rd 2008 1:35PM]

Samsung is the new Apple around here!

[Dave @ Jul 23rd 2008 4:11PM]

iEye I thought you and clak got banned...too bad.

[phanbouy @ Jul 23rd 2008 1:35PM]

samsung announced new monitors?

[avirji @ Jul 23rd 2008 1:38PM]

I wonder if it's connected by ethernet or wireless-n?

[Gibletoid @ Jul 23rd 2008 1:41PM]

What does Youtube friendly mean? I just sent a 720p .mov filmed with a Kodak Easyshare to YooToob and it worked fine. Better then fine.

Oh... a buzzword to sell cameras?

[natels @ Jul 23rd 2008 1:46PM]

It means whatever you shoot is guaranteed to be instantly funny, sad, and artistic to insure 1mil+ views.

[Mike @ Jul 23rd 2008 2:04PM]

it means that it automatically records the picture in youtube's max resolution before they resize it down, and the correct audio bitrate so youtube doesn't need to process your audio to convert it.

Basically your videos will look alot better.

[inteller @ Jul 23rd 2008 1:48PM]

Hey I got a better idea. Why not wait until ALL the samsung model news is released so you can have ONE post about them. They are just TVs....nothing earth shattering here unless they start selling them for $10.

[Mike @ Jul 23rd 2008 2:04PM]

Is anyone else still amazed that the SC-MX20 does 34x optical zoom??

[NutMac @ Jul 23rd 2008 2:19PM]

Their TV seems half baked. InfoLink RSS widgets look high polished but on-screen display (e.g., MUTE display) is very retro with low resolution pixel-mania font.

[Chris Radford @ Jul 23rd 2008 2:30PM]

Why does this article http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/samsung-gets-official-with-led-backlit-9-series-lcd-hdtvs/ state that the contrast ratio will be 1,000,000:1 when the table display in this article for the 9 series shows 100,000:1?

[bye bye engadget @ Jul 23rd 2008 3:02PM]

how much $$$ is engadget/AOL making from Samsung right now?

6 articles on the front page, plus an AD for the instinct phone... and you wonder why someone goes from viewing this site every day to at the most, 2-3 times a month... crap, engadget, you're all crap...

[Dave @ Jul 23rd 2008 5:56PM]

still, id rather see this than the constant pandering of substandard apple garbage on here, which, now that Block is gone I don't think we are going to see near as much of.

[Loonyx @ Jul 24th 2008 11:45AM]

uh hello, One company sends in a bunch of new products and they do a quick right up of all of them. Why not just get it all done at once. duh!

[Loonyx @ Jul 24th 2008 11:43AM]

When will sick TVs like this have built in GPS and keyboards instead of remotes, like hello! how sick would planning your next cruise in your cayman s be from your bedsickle!

[rishi @ Jul 28th 2008 7:52PM]

Holiday lineup? Dude, its July...