Samsung LCD 750, Plasma PDP 850, new LED series hands-on

Sure, Panasonic's 0.33-inch thin Neo PDP might have just redefined our definition of thin, but the new Samsung HDTV are quite the lookers. The form factor, like the company's touted UI initiative, is fairly unified in appearance across all models. Frankly, we had a pretty hard time telling them apart, and all we could really think about is how awesome they'd look in our living rooms. Hard to tell from the gallery below, but trust us, the picture quality is very crisp and clean. Now if we could only get a glimpse of Internet@TV in action.

Samsung LCD 750, Plasma PDP 850, LED series hands-on at CES 2009

[danhawk911 Posted Jan 7th 2009 9:12PM]

still no word on what type of led tech these use. thats not fun.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 7th 2009 9:25PM]

I like the look, it's sleek , 2 snaps and a thumbs up to the design engineer. I like the shots of the rear that were provided. No snaps and thumbs down for the location of the connector ports...to the side?? I prefer the bottom ports on a Vizio LCD 42inch. Also, I am concerned about purchase of an off the shelf wall mount. I didn't see any standard M10 , M6 inserts on rear for connecting to mount.
What's my wampum outlay for such a device?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2009 12:06PM]

I like the side facing inputs. Down facing ones are only nice if the TV is mounted, they're a pain in the ass if you've got it sitting on a stand.

And the screw holes in pic1 look to be in fine spots to attach to a mount.

And wow, these TV's are amazingly sexy. I'm not sure when it happened but I'm such a Samsung fanboy recently.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 7th 2009 9:32PM]

I love candid pics like this. These guys spend hundreds of thousands of dollars developing a state of the art tv, they spend $80,000+ on their ces booth, yet they didnt spend a penny on hiding the power and signal cables going to the back of their tv.

[danhawk911 Posted Jan 7th 2009 10:46PM]

i think the resaon they did not hide is they want you to know it has a tuner built in and you dont need an external tuner box. thin is good but if you have to have a tunner box it is a no sale for me.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2009 3:49AM]

Any idea on when these will be available?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2009 3:18PM]

I still don't understand why people care how thin their TV is. For something like a mobile, sure, makes sense, but none of my existing flatpanels protrude from the wall more than any sane person can handle.