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At CES in Las Vegas Samsung unveiled a strong line up of products including a 3D home entertainment
system, LED TVs with screens as thin as a pencil and e-readers.
The company also unveiled its own app store with plans to offer games, movies and software
for multiple devices, including TVs and Blu-ray Disc players as well as mobile phones.
The 3D home entertainment system includes high-definition 3D TVs, the BD-C6900 Blu-ray
Disc player and an audio system to be sold together or separately. Samsung has also partnered
with Dreamworks Animation and Technicolor on promoting content for 3D home entertainment.
The 3D home entertainment center will be available later this year, but no pricing information
was available.
Samsung also showed off its thinnest LED TV ever on Wednesday, the LED9000 series, which
is just 0.3-inches or 7.6mm thick.
Samsung's LED TVs turned out to be a surprise hit for the company last year, with 2.5 million
sold globally. Samsung forecast it will sell 10 million in 2010.
The company also used CES to announce its own app store. It’s already up and running
on the Web but apps for TVs won't be available until July, according to the Samsung Apps
Web site.
The company also entered the e-reader fray, showing off new devices with touchscreens
you can take notes on with a stylus.
The Samsung E6 sports a 6-inch screen, while the E101 has a 10-inch screen. The handwriting
capability is due to a built-in electromagnetic resonance (EMR) stylus pen. The E6 will cost
about 400 US dollars.
With reporting by Dan Nystedt at CES 2010 in Las Vegas, I’m Nick Barber, IDG News
Service.