Samsung follows up on where LG left off, with their latest 3D Smart TV 240Hz refresh rate, Edge-lit LED backlight with local dimming plus micro dimming Pro, built-in WiFi, and what the company is calling “the world’s first Internet-enabled touch-control TV remote.”3D LED Smart TV does come with a full set of interactive features as well as media/info that can be accessed through Samsung’s Smart HUB, allowing you to enjoy Video On Demand content, chat with family and friends over Skype or GTalk, while offering a much more pleasant 3D viewing experience with a new pair of 3D active shutter glasses, placing it more or less on par with LG’s flicker free 3D TV.
Samsung Electronics said Thursday it expects to sell up to 10 million 3-D TVs this year and vigorously defended the technology behind its lineup amid intensifying competition with rivals including LG Electronics.
Samsung’s 3-D sales target, if achieved, would mark a fivefold jump from the 2 million sets sold last year. LG says it expects to sell 5 million 3-D TVs in 2011, though is not releasing its results for last year.
Yoon Boo-geun, president of Samsung’s visual display business, told reporters that the company expects to rack up 3-D sales of between 9-10 million in 2011 and hailed the so-called active shutter glass technology it uses.
“The market will judge,” he said. “We‘ll see at the end of this year.”
As much as the marketing of 3D Tvs leads aggressively, sales have been weak due to the lack of content for 3-D TVs as well as consumer complaints about eyestrain, headaches and even queasiness have also been seen as damping sales.
Samsung shares rose 1 percent to close Thursday at 954,000 won ($854). LG’s stock price, meanwhile, declined 3.3 percent to 118,500 won.
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Park Sae-jin
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