Eyes-on with Samsung’s 75-inch 3D TV

By Ian Morris

Samsung has demonstrated the world’s first 75-inch 3D TV this week at CES in Las Vegas. The TV uses an LED backlight, has the usual compliment of Internet widgets and is both whisper thin and beautiful.

The company wasn’t letting us sticky-handed journalists play with the menus, or fiddle with the Internet widgets. It is, however, fair to assume that this TV has the usual slick Samsung user interface, and a fistful of awesome Internet apps for accessing YouTube and BBC iPlayer.

The demo loop Samsung was showing was nothing short of spectacular. The fine detail on the images was immense. But, as with all these demo loops, the footage was slow moving, free of visual challenges and clearly recorded at massive bitrates. Throw the average episode of Hollyoaks up on this thing, and it’s not likely to look so awesome.

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