Without much fanfare, Samsung has released a TV / tablet combo in Korea that seems to deliver on all the untapped promise in Toshiba's
JournE touch tablet. Dubbed the LED TV Couple, Samsung has paired a 55-inch LED baclkit LCD TV with a brand new 7-inch touchscreen tablet, which communicates with and controls a full home theater over 802.11n WiFi. The tablet offers a visual program guide, including video previews of TV shows, along with access to media stored on a PC -- which can in turn be "tossed" up to the full TV -- and even a few widgets. But the real money is in the pair's ability to stream live TV and Blu-ray content from the home theater
to the tablet, making that next trip to the kitchen for munchies so much less painful. No word on a US or Europe release, but we hope to see a lot more of this pair in the near future. Peep them in action after the break.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kevin G @ Sep 6th 2009 2:14PM
that looks great... it's amazing that a company who doesn't specialize in control has made this beautiful tablet. if it has a decent PC editor for custom graphics, the ability to paste hex codes and access IR, serial and IP command databases, and becomes available in the US at a price point comparable to RTI and Pronto, that will be interesting.
Kevin G @ Sep 6th 2009 2:21PM
Now that i think about it, this controller is probably designed only to work with Samsung products and only over WiFi or Ethernet. Still, I would love to get my hands on one and see how it does what it does, and how much it could support custom integration.
Michael R @ Sep 6th 2009 11:13PM
But will it talkcommunicate with a cable company HD-DVR? I'd say that's very unlikely.
Richard @ Sep 7th 2009 3:57AM
nice and revolution but probably not worth the cost unless is under $200
ELUNO @ Sep 7th 2009 9:35PM
This looks delicious! :D'''
zeeke @ Sep 7th 2009 10:16PM
That is amazing, with some decent battery life that thing would be perfect for controlling your home automation system. Imagine a WMC plugin to control the guide and schedule recordings. Now we just have to wait for Apple to crush this :)
Loban @ Sep 9th 2009 9:39AM
Is anyone else sick of Samsung calling these things LED TVs. It really confuses your average person who thinks that they're anything other than just LCD TVs with LED backlighting. The LED backlighting does make them look better (or as good as you can expect from LCD), but it's not a drastically new technology or anything like that.
Onelegout @ Sep 16th 2009 5:41PM
In the very first bit of the video clip, channel 2 says: RBB UM SECHS
Bum Sechs!! Ha! Anyway.. This looks fantastic, and I can only hope it comes to the UK before I give in and buy a new TV!
jon @ Oct 5th 2009 3:50AM
Would someone forward a copy of that video to MS, and tell them we want that kind of integration with MC7 in Windows Mobile 7.