Samsung 85

The monster Samsung 85-inch S9 goes on pre-order in the US at the end of March, but there’s still no date for OLED.

The S9 on display at CES 2013.
(Credit: Nic Healey/CNET)

One of the darlings of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 was the Samsung S9, the iconic 85-inch Ultra HD TV that wowed the crowds in Las Vegas.

Back in mid January, Samsung released the pricing for the S9 in Korea, 40 million won, which we noted put it at around US$37,800. Well, we were close — in an event in New York today, Samsung confirmed that the US pricing would be US$39,999, with pre-orders being taken via the Samsung site at the end of March.

It’s extremely difficult to extrapolate any local pricing guidelines from this announcement, but we’d assume that Samsung would be placing a premium price on a premium product if and when the company decides to bring the S9 to Australia.

Absent at the US event was any firm mention of OLED TVs, with Joe Stinziano, executive vice president for Samsung Electronics America, only confirming to our CNET colleagues in the US that Samsung would have an OLED TV on the market “this year”.

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Samsung 85

Samsung will unveil an 85-inch Ultra High Definition TV in the new year. It’s not the first 85-inch UHDTV, but it has bagged one of the technology world’s most prestigious innovation awards.

The Samsung gigantotelly makes its debut at CES, the technology bunfight that takes over Las Vegas every January. It’s already won the Best Innovation award for the show, so we can’t wait to check it out.

The enormogogglebox measures 85 inches from corner-to-corner. That’s 7 feet. If you got bored of watching movies in eye-popping detail, you could use this thing as a bed.

Samsung hasn’t confirmed the resolution, but in order to call itself a UHDTV a display must pump out at least 3,840 pixels on its horizontal axis and 2,160 on the vertical.

Last year, Sharp showed off a prototype 85-inch 4K TV at CES that beamed out an eye-scorchingly detailed 7,680×4,320 pixels. That’s about 33 million pixels in total — a staggering 16 times higher than today’s 1,080p screens. We were impressed, noting the “astonishing clarity of the picture is nothing short of mesmerising“.

Sharp expects 4K broadcasts to begin in 2020, in Japan at least. In the meantime, prices are still being decided. Sony suggested its 4K TV would cost around €25,000 (£20,000), but after LG announced something very similar for a full eight grand less, Sony decided to have a rethink.

Is Ultra High Definition the next big thing? Display your thoughts in the comments or on our widescreen Facebook page.

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Samsung 85

Samsung is preparing the largest commercial Ultra High Definition TV for the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Not actually the Samsung TV; just the similarly sized LG UHD TV.
(Credit: LG)

It’s official: whether you were ready for it or not, the Ultra HD age of entertainment has arrived. Sony, LG and now Samsung all have large-screen UHD offerings in or joining the market, although Samsung has gone a tiny bit farther — 1 inch farther, in fact.

While the Sony and LG TVs are 84 inches, Samsung has squeezed out an additional skerrick of screen real estate to produce an 85-inch screen. Little is known of the TV in terms of specs — or even looks, as no images of the TV have been produced yet — although Samsung has said that it will use:

An innovative enhanced dimming technology and a very high contrast ratio to deliver deep, real blacks and pure whites for greater detail and unmatched picture clarity. This new, cutting-edge TV also offers a powerful and dynamic range of sounds.

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