Following the company's
2010 Blu-ray player lineup, the first of this year's 3D HDTVs from Samsung are available for preorder at a few internet retailers. The edge-lit LED and 1.1-inch thin C7000 series hits in 40- 46- and 55-inch sizes, with plenty of other features to go along with their 3D and 2D-to-3D conversion abilities. There's access to
Samsung Apps & Internet@TV,
Skype, AllShare DLNA media streaming, and tweaks that promise to automatically adjust picture and sound for any content source, from a thumb drive to a Blu-ray player. Best pleasant surprise? Price. The UN46B7000 model we
reviewed last year started with a $2,999 MSRP (currently down to $1,929 on Amazon), while this year's UN46C7000 (shipping April 16) has a preorder price of $2,599. The 40- and 55-inch versions are similarly priced, at $1,999 and $3,299, respectively, though those necessary 3D glasses are left out of the package as an optional and as yet unpriced accessory that will likely eagerly claim any remaining room in your budget.
[Thanks, Jason]
posted February 12th 2010 6:24PM
@Seemore I can tell you this from more than 20 years in the technology industry that this is the case with most electronics. What's more is that now they are designed to fail as which was not always the case. So now we have an industry that deliberate breaks it's parts,components and end user products while price fixing (cpu,memory,os,hdd,lcd,etc,etc) and designed to fail as soon as warranty terminates.
Amazing they can charge this much when the similar 3D Panasonics with not only better contrast, but better viewing angles and 3D performance, will be so much less.
$2000 for a 40" TV? If it included a PS3 and two pair of glasses, that would be entirely worth it. But this doesn't include a PS3... or even the glasses.
You have to pay between one and two hundred dollars for each pair of glasses. You're going to want at least three pairs, unless you're a basement dweller. Looks like I'll be waiting until this December to see a close to rational price.
you know what would of been a better choice for HDTVs than 3D? Head tracking :P.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=head+tracking&search_type=&aq=f
Now that is what I have been waiting for, too bad I will have to wait longer for the PS3 firmware update than the 3D TV... I think that a 40" 3D upgrade from my 26" Monitor is certainly worth $2K. I own a few games that Sony has said will work in 3D and one that was demoed in 3D and I am certainly looking forward to that 3D Blu-ray will be more of a novelty but it will still be good.
You all know what we need next? Real bullets shoot out from the monitor. Nothing say realistic than a bullet to the face.
How does edge LED lighting work on a display this big. I mean I'm sure it does, I'm just amazed by the fact edge LEDs are capable of delivering consistent backlighting all over that screen.
Samsung's TV's used to look very nice.
What the heck were they thinking with that stand? Looks like something from Monster's Inc.
I think their designers were really bored.
What is with Samsung and almost constantly changing the bezel and stand? Why can't they put that effort into switching back to MATTE goddamnit?!
These things are pretty cool. I just saw one demo'ed at a Sony store. It indeed showed movies in 3D. But the movie wasn't as impressive as the big screen. So I can see this nascent home theater technology driving demand for much larger screens. I'm thinking screens of 150 inches or more.
Also one othe thing I noticed with this technology is that in some instances motion was not as smooth. It looked like movement "flicked" and chopped. I'm not sure if it's a frame rate issue or something else. I might be in the minority because sometimes I notice choppy movement in normal movies but after awhile I don't notice it.
Sammy...bring up your 3D plasmas! Now that Panasonic let me down...you seem to be my...only...saviour? That's good or bad? Anyhow...bring them...
Just wondering a few things... First off, these tv's support HDMI 1.3 but if I remembered correctly, 1.4 was required to hook up a 3d blu ray player?
second, does anyone know why the 40 inch model has disappeared from the Amazon website? in google cache in can still see it, and it has got a april launch date compared to end of feb. for the 46 and 55 inch models. anyone know why that could be?
Thanks, and sorry for my bad english
it's official, i finally feel like my LN4A550 is an antique. only because of the design; i'm not at all to eager to get a 3D set any time soon. I'll give them another year to sort out the whole HDMI spec. 1.3/1.4 nonsense... and whether my PS3 will work as a player -- i know it won't -- especially since it's not Samsung and there's also the whole HDMI 1.4 through my 1.3 spec'd A/V receiver dilemma.
i sort of like the vigorous stand they put on this one, and of course it's thin as hell. Although the stand isn't necessarily congruent with Samsung usually puts out.
...for the record, i love glossy materials on devices.
3d tvs are going to cost a stupid premium for some time yet. Better to wait a couple of years until 3d becomes a standard feature of mid range tvs, to allow implementations of the various standards to be stabilize, for the price of glasses to drop and for actual content to appear.
I really don't know why anyone would want to buy now except for the questionable bragging rights.
omg nice
Where did this Feb 26th date come from? My reliable sources are telling me beginning of April. If you're getting info from Amazon, they're just liars. I talked with them on the phone about it today, and they have no date as to when it will be in yet (UN46C7000 specifically).
UN55C7000
www.samsungun55c7000.com