Samsung's CES 2009 HDTV lineup leaked?

CES 2009 is literally days away, but it seems that those looking for details on any possible new HDTVs from Samsung may not have to wait to get their fill. A few postings over at AVForums has led us to believe that the outfit will be debuting a number of new sets for a litany of markets. The 2009 lineup will reportedly consist of a few new Series 3, 4, 5 and 6 panels, with the main focus being on their LED-backlit-ness. Everything should be available for purchase during the first half of next year, with sizes ranging from around 40-inches and up. Obviously, there are far too many details linked below to cover in this space, but one mention we found particularly interesting was the promised Internet@TV feature, which should effectively replace InfoLive and instead rely on those Yahoo Widgets we've been hearing about for so long. It's about to get really interesting, folks.

[Via Audioholics, thanks Celle]

[Wansoo @ Dec 29th 2008 2:05AM]

The TV doesn't seem right... Maybe it's the half diamond shaped bottom of the TV or maybe it's the red tinge. It would definitely stand out in my living room the wrong way.

[Adam H. @ Dec 29th 2008 11:18AM]

the red tinge is their ToC or Touch of Color series of TVs. I have a Series 6 40" as a monitor, works great, and I have that internet capability thing on here, never use it.

[Anthony @ Dec 29th 2008 11:23AM]

Have a Samsung 40" from 2 yrs ago. Same diamond shape. Always bugged me too, but it's where the speaker's housed so I guess they did an okay job.

[STINK @ Dec 29th 2008 2:15AM]

Sounds good to me! I'd rather have a big hi-def PC monitor because most TV stinks anymore. All i really watch is sports, news, and [adult swim], so i'd rather stream than have a satellite bill.

[eggothewaffle @ Dec 29th 2008 2:35AM]

Hopefully this year, great quality 1080p 32" LCDs will be under the $500 price point :]

[mirakutea @ Dec 29th 2008 3:41AM]

not going to happen :P.

[Ricksta @ Dec 29th 2008 9:53AM]

Too bad your brain cannot see the 1080 on a 32". Anything under 40 inches only needs to be 720p. 1080 is a waste on a anything smaller.

[eggothewaffle @ Dec 29th 2008 12:51PM]

Yeah, it's not like anyone would use such a TV for a cheap 30"+ secondary computer monitor or anything. That would be preposterous!

[Joe @ Dec 29th 2008 1:30PM]

Not to mention the fact that a 720p fixed pixel screen has to downsample 1080p content (BluRay, etc.) to 720p. I'd rather upscale 720p content to 1080p and have a TV that will display 1080p content at its native resolution.

[Ray @ Dec 29th 2008 2:37AM]

THE INTERNET IS DOWN!?!!?! I can't access half of my bookmarked sites and those that I can load extremely slowly. Most sites I try to visit won't load at all. I'm right by Cleveland, is any one else having this problem? Can't get on google or youtube and many others but actstudent.org loads instantly and so does photobucket.com

[SirMasterboy @ Dec 29th 2008 1:35PM]

Nope, North America looks just fine: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

Most likely it's your ISP. If you continue to have problems give them a call and ask them if they know of any network problems.

[Ryback @ Dec 29th 2008 2:54AM]

I bought a SAMSUNG LE-40A786 LED LCD-TV yesterday. Damn you engadget for spoiling my fun!

[sip @ Dec 29th 2008 3:45AM]

ooo that looks like a great tv though. I don't think we get that one in the states.

My father got a LN-T4681F, and when it fades to black it looks like the tv is off... its pretty awesome

[John @ Dec 29th 2008 11:18AM]

yeah, the LN-T series are great - the 81s have LED backlighting as well as 120hz processing, making them on par with the super-high end LN series 8 Samsungs. Plus, you can pick up the LN-T4681F for about 1600 on Amazon right now compared to the original $3800 price.

[Ray @ Dec 29th 2008 2:57AM]

You've gotta be right. Thanks. Freakin' Cox. My neighbor with AT&T is just fine. Someone else told me that Level 3 (?) was having peering issues today? Maybe that's why I couldn't connect my Wii a couple hours ago (website browsing issues arose about one hour ago).

[FILA @ Dec 29th 2008 4:31AM]

Samsung sucks, and i dont kno why there trying to make the move to these internet tv, the future is HTPC. I can see the widgets, but anything else just get a box to do everything with, exactly why there will be a HTPC in my dream living room set up

[LordVesper007 @ Dec 29th 2008 9:54AM]

^^^Probably a sony fanboy.

Anyways Samsung is amazing. I completely forgot that CES 2009 was right around the corner. Guess that means I will hold off on the Series 8 HDTVs. Chances are that the new series are gonna be major improvements in picture and quality wise.

I'm also very interested in the next round of Bluray players. Especially what Samsung will bring. The 1500 my dad owns is AMAZING.

[CaliforniaKid @ Dec 29th 2008 11:27AM]

Speaking of internet issues...

Anyone else having bit torrent speed issues? My download speed is below 10kb/s and then about every 30 minutes it will spike momentarily to 200kb/s. A bandwidth test looks normal.

[Mike @ Dec 29th 2008 11:47AM]

^^^That's known as "capping". ISPs usually cap your connection so you don't eat up their bandwidth when using p2p programs.

[CaliforniaKid @ Dec 29th 2008 8:43PM]

Thanks for the response, Mike.

[Casper42 @ Dec 29th 2008 12:42PM]

@ENGADGET - You may want to specify this is only for LCD/Plasma TVs.

I was hoping to see what, if any, changes were being made to the DLP sets and there is NO information on them in the read link. Specifically I am looking for the LED DLP or perhaps Samsung will switch to Laser like Mitsu.

[Daniel @ Dec 29th 2008 3:08PM]

yeah time for me to reuprgrade but i wont settle for anything less then a bigger screen then 52in led backlight and 240hz.

[Hooterman @ Dec 29th 2008 3:19PM]

"Now supports playback of movies in the following formats upto 1080p: MKV/ WMV/ VOB/ AVI/ TS/ 3GP/ MPG/ ASF"

Holy cow. 1080p MKV support?! Samsung +1 Rep.