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8 Jan 2010
The experience of watching television is getting revolutionized at CES this year. Samsung has just added to this trend by announcing that it will launch an app store for HDTVs in July 2010.
With products like the Boxee Box and the Popbox, as well as services such as DivX TV and Yahoo Connected TV coming on the scene, it’s clear that interactive TV is where it’s at this year.
Come this July, Samsung fans will be able to purchase and download applications in the realms of video, information, lifestyle, games and sports for use on 2010 Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray Players and Home Theater systems. Content partners will include: Accedo Broadband, AccuWeather.com, The Associated Press, Blockbuster, Fashion TV, Netflix, Picasa, Pandora, Rovi, Travel Channel, Twitter, USA TODAY and Vudu.
Samsung already has a mobile app store, which has now been launched in England, France, Italy and Korea (the company plans to expand to 50 countries this year), and the addition of a store for HDTVs will only increase the company’s reach. The question becomes, however: In a market that is becoming more and more saturated with interactive TV technology, how will all the players seek to differentiate themselves from the pack?
[via Web Pro News]
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5 Responses to Samsung to Launch App Store For HDTVs
ChrisMas
February 12th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Go to Samsung's website and look up the model number of your tv. Or find the series it is from. It should be 1080p. Anything 47" or greater is almost always 1080p because 1080p has drastically better picture than 720p tv's that are 47" or greater. In 40" and smaller tv's, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between 1080p and 720p.
Mike Indigenous British
February 13th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
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gilloz
March 20th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
OK. What is it that you want to know?
shelton m
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:33 pm
A pandoras battery has its light green when you put it in without you needing to hit the switch.
As for the magic memory stick, if you have one you'd get a dos-like looking screen with options on how to flash it when you whack in with your pandoras. i.e press triangle.
Teddy
April 3rd, 2010 at 5:57 am
1. If you are referring to the bass module in a Bose system then it is what is known as a bandpass enclosure. Basically it is a box with an internal divider that creates two seperate chambers inside. A bandpass can be either a single bandpass(sealed rear chamber) or a dual bandpass(ported rear chamber) A woofer or woofers are mounted to the divider and this seperates the front sound waves from the rear sound waves. Then a port is added to the front chamber(single bandpass) and sometimes to the rear chamber(dual bandpass) to output sound into the listening area. All the sound that is heard emanates solely from the ports and there is no visible woofer/s. A bandpass is so named because the design only allows a narrow range of frequencies to be reproduced. It "passes" only a certain "band" of frequencies. The box design effectively filters unwanted high frequencies. Sort of like getting a "free" crossover albeit at the expense of a larger enclosure. An advantage is that the design filters distortions which results in a clean sound. This can also be a disadvantage because if you overdrive the speaker and it is bottoming out or suffering any mechanical stress, the noise will also be masked by the bandpass design. All of a sudden the speaker stops playing because it has suffered catastrophic failure.
2. A subwoofer is a speaker driver that is designed to handle the lowest audible frequencies. Typically from 100Hz and below. It is a loosely used term and sometimes people just say "woofer".
3.The front two speakers also known as the "main" speakers are suppose to play most of the audio track and the sound will move from left to right and vice versa in sync with the movie action. The center channel(if used) will also play a huge part of the audio track and it helps anchor the dialogue to the video display so that voices appear to come from the center.The rear or "surround" channels are to create ambience. These speakers should never be aimed towards the listener's ears. Their job is to create a diffuse sound that should not be localizeable. You want more reflected sound than direct sound from the rears. Ideally they should be mounted on the side walls 3-4 feet above the listener's head when seated. The speakers should be pointing at one another. Like in a real theater. Also the rear speakers will ONLY play sound when there is "surround" material present on the audio track of the movie.
4. Anyone that is serious about quality sound reproduction would never use a Bose system. There are much better speakers to choose from for the same money and many times for much less. People buy Bose mainly for asthetics and because of the W.A.F. The wife acceptance factor. I feel sorry for those weenies. And for the guy that said that anyone who says Bose sucks doesn't know what they are talking about, I say it sucks. I have 22 years of audio experience. I've done car audio, custom residential systems in multi-million dollar mansions, commercial systems, and professional sound reinforcement. How much experience do you have doing audio systems?