Samsung CES 2017 Event Live Blog
by Joshua Ho & Billy Tallis on January 4, 2017 4:36 PM EST
05:01PM EST - We're here at Samsung's CES Press Conference. Josh is on photos and Billy is on text.
05:01PM EST - The stage props suggest a home automation theme
05:03PM EST - Intro video rolling. Refrigerator and curved monitors
05:03PM EST - Tim Baxter, President and COO of Samsung Electronics America
05:04PM EST - "This was a challenging year for Samsung"
05:04PM EST - "despite our setbacks, we have not stopped innovating"
05:05PM EST - more than 5M Gear VR devices
05:07PM EST - 3 key areas of focus
05:07PM EST - 1. build products that fit your life
05:07PM EST - appliances, lightweight mobile computers
05:07PM EST - 2. "elegant, thoughtful design"
05:08PM EST - "just as beautiful turned off as turned on"
05:08PM EST - 3. IoT: "not just a buzzword, it guides our strategy"
05:08PM EST - building a more expansive set of connected devices
05:09PM EST - "we have IoT products in every appliance category"
05:09PM EST - "because that's what consumers want"
05:09PM EST - every Samsung TV will be a smart TV
05:09PM EST - features/services like Samsung SmartThings and Samsung Pay
05:10PM EST - acquiring Harman for automotive technology
05:11PM EST - now playing a video about Samsung's TVs
05:12PM EST - customers listing what they want from their next TV: 4k, HDR, streaming
05:13PM EST - on stage: Joe Stinziano, Executive Vice President of Samsung Electronics America
05:13PM EST - UHD market grew 70% last year
05:13PM EST - Samsung has 46.4% TV market share in US
05:14PM EST - Quantum Dot technology: improved image quality
05:14PM EST - no degradation over time like with OLED
05:15PM EST - branded as Samsung QLED TV
05:15PM EST - being revealed on stage
05:16PM EST - supports "nearly all" of DCI P3 color space
05:17PM EST - 1500-2000 nits brightness
05:18PM EST - TV connects through one optical cable to a breakout box
05:18PM EST - no-gap wall mount
05:19PM EST - multiple options for stands
05:20PM EST - showing a TV with a wood bezel, mimicing a picture frame
05:21PM EST - now on stage: Won Jin Lee, Executive Vice President, Samsung Electronics
05:21PM EST - talking about TV as a hub for entertainment
05:23PM EST - virtual remote: Smart View app for Android and iOS
05:24PM EST - personalized discovery: unifying watching recommendations from multiple sources
05:25PM EST - including sports streaming from multiple partners
05:25PM EST - 4k and HDR streaming from Netflix and Amazon built-in
05:26PM EST - TV Plus for US market: find and buy 4k content
05:27PM EST - Joe Stinziano back on stage, talking about audio innovations
05:28PM EST - expanding line of sound bars with Samsung Sound+ soundbar
05:28PM EST - bass down to 35Hz, can attach directly to TV
05:29PM EST - upscaling to 32-bit audio (as if that matters)
05:30PM EST - second generation UHD blu-ray players
05:30PM EST - 31.5" WQHD curved monitor (1800R curvature) in early 2017
05:31PM EST - QLED TVs shipping February
05:31PM EST - now on stage: John Herrington to talk about appliances
05:32PM EST - recapping last year's new products
05:32PM EST - theme of more flexibility from appliances
05:33PM EST - laundry: washers and dryers with small top-loading compartment and larger front-loading compartment
05:33PM EST - FlexWash and FlexDry
05:35PM EST - FlexWash: 1 cu. ft. top, 5 cu. ft. front compartment
05:36PM EST - FlexDry: 7.5 cu. ft. main dryer
05:36PM EST - moving to kitchen appliances
05:36PM EST - more built-in appliances, all with IoT
05:38PM EST - expanding Family Hub line of refrigerators: all French Door models will have Family Hub 2.0 option
05:39PM EST - voice control, display shows what's inside fridge
05:39PM EST - everybody seems to be having the same ideas for smart appliances
05:41PM EST - Family Hub 2.0 features: order groceries online, leave notes on screen, music streaming from Spotify, Pandora
05:42PM EST - first generation Family Hub products will get an upgrade with most of the new features
05:42PM EST - done with appliances
05:43PM EST - now on stage: Alanna Cotton talking about wearables
05:45PM EST - new apps for Gear S3 smart watch
05:46PM EST - new notebook PCs
05:47PM EST - new Chromebook with support for Android apps
05:47PM EST - Samsung Chromebook Plus and Chromebook Pro
05:47PM EST - Chromebook Pro with Intel Core m3
05:48PM EST - Chromebook Plus with ARM processor
05:48PM EST - digitizer pen included
05:49PM EST - talking about new Notebook 9 with Kaby Lake, GeForce 940MX
05:50PM EST - new gaming laptop: Samsung Notebook Odyssey
05:51PM EST - dual fans, large vent on bottom
05:51PM EST - 2.5mm key travel, curved key caps
05:51PM EST - anti-glare screen
05:52PM EST - Kaby Lake Core i7
05:52PM EST - 17-inch has twice the RAM and SSD
05:52PM EST - black and red color scheme
05:53PM EST - wrapping up now
05:54PM EST - We'll be visiting Samsung's booth for a closer look at the new products. That's all for now.
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Shadowmaster625 - Friday, January 6, 2017 - link
I feel like an old kodger for saying I will never pay to have a goddam screen on my fridge. A lot of this tech is just so far beyond stupid. CES 2017 has been an utter disappointment. It seems like everything is geared toward the blatant vanity of the top 0.1%. And that introduces a paradox because you dont get to be in the 0.1% by wasting your money on useless crap like a giant screen on a fridge. It's not arguably useless, it is completely frickin useless. You want to know whats in your fridge, you open the door and look, all in less time than it takes to poke around on some stupid screen.jm04sure - Friday, January 6, 2017 - link
Samsung refrigerators, once failed, very hard to repair. Need authorized agent, and speaking from experience, they do not know jack. Had to find compatible parts on my own and repair myself. Never will purchase Samsung appliances again.Bullwinkle J Moose - Friday, January 6, 2017 - link
There is a huge difference between the way Samsung advertises Quantum Dot Tech at this CES event and the way LG is advertising right now at other Tech sitesSamsung >
Quantum Dot technology: improved image quality
supports "nearly all" of DCI P3 color space
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LG Ad - Improved color "Accuracy" from quantum dot film tech
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If I understand The Film Technology correctly, Quantum Dot Film tech ADDs colors that were never there so it is misleading to say it improves color accuracy as LG is doing
For example, if I add a quantum dot film to a 256 color LCD display to recreate billions of colors to the eye, the new colors in no way relate to accurate colors
It can improve the "perception" of accuracy but there is no fidelity to the actual source material
Please respond to the following statement:
A monitor that "accurately" reproduces the entire color spectrum and dynamic range is currently FAR beyond the current tech available today
Is that statement accurate and can you comment further?
mkozakewich - Sunday, January 8, 2017 - link
Our eyes see only red, green, and blue. Something yellow, for example, is just triggering two different receptors in our eyes at the same time.When lighting rooms and things, you need to take colour rendering accuracy into account; but in this case it's just pure image from the screen, so the light can be purely r/g/b. Literally the only colours we see are a billion combinations of red, green, and blue light.
Traditional 'white' LEDs send pure blue or violet light through a fluorescent material that transforms it into white light (that is, a wasteful set of various colour wavelengths). Two thirds of that light are filtered out to strip out all the waste colours.
The quantum-dot add-in takes the light from pure blue LEDs and converts a third of it to pure red and a third of it to pure green. Since the light entering the LCD matrix is now purely r/g/b, no additional filtering is needed. The purer the elemental colour is, the larger the possible gamut.
If you added a quantum-dot layer to a 256-colour LCD, you could have 256 very accurate colours. There would be a lot of banding in the gradients, though. That's not a question of accurate colours, though, as much as it is about resolution.
tl;dr: The light coming out of the quantum layer can be tuned to precisely the values accepted by the average human eye, and so the colour can be controlled to a far greater degree. The pure colours are also purer, which lets them expand out to larger gamuts.
Bullwinkle J Moose - Monday, January 9, 2017 - link
Thanks mkozakewichThe limited info I read sounded like the film was adding colors instead of correcting colors
However, If I did take colour rendering accuracy into account, could the quantum-dot film IMPROVE the CRI value of LEDs for Video Lighting?
Now that Flashlights are just beginning to approach usable consistent output levels above 2500 Lumens for over an hour @ 90+CRI and have tripod mounts, I'd like to see more of them like the Manker MK34 with Nichia 219 B or C LEDs
It will be another HUGE market soon if the maximum output levels are "Stable" for an hour or 2
Wink Wink Hint Hint
Add a variable level control to a wireless remote or cellphone app for this kind of light and it would be a studio favorite in Zero Time!
oranos - Saturday, January 7, 2017 - link
lmao Samsung trolling Apple by micro-analyzing features