Rather than connecting your camcorder to your HDTV by wires, if you use one the new Samsung S-Series camcorders on display at CES 2010 you can beam your videos to you TV instantly with just a click of the Samsung AllShare button.

No wires, no mess, no fuss.

This magic happens through the S-Series camcorders (the HMX-S10, HMX-S15 and HMX-S16) being the first in the world to come equipped with both WiFi (apart from the S10) and DLNA.


Obviously this means that the HDTV must also support both WiFi and DLNA for this magic to happen, but even if it doesn’t, you can wirelessly beam your vids to your PC, which does.

Obviously the camcorders also come with an HDMI cable as well, though, in case you want to view the vids on a normal telly.

The S-Series cameras also come with a plethora of other top-end features, including:

• 1080p Full-HD
• 3.5″ touchscreen LCD
• 3D user interface (no idea why!)
• New Victoria Engine video processor that suppresses noise and results in crisper videos
• Internal Solid State Drives (SSD), which are more robust than normal hard drives, yet offer more storage than SD cards. The HMX-S16, for example, offees 64GB of storage
• 10 megapixel camera with flash
• Super-slow modes shoots at up to 600 frames per second, slowing the scene down 20-fold.
• Time-lapse recording feature
• Schneider Kreuznach Varioplan-HD lens with 18x zoom

That’s some pretty cool specs, particularly when WiFi is added to the mix. I can’t help but feel that an opportunity was missed, though, in not offering automatic YouTube uploading via WiFi. It’s great being able to wirelessly connect to your other home entertainment devices, but sharing your videos is what we all want these days.

Oh well, maybe for CES 2011?!

[Source: Engadget]

Why? Because the new Samsung STB you see here is actually a DVR, capable of storing HD programmes internally. Better still, it comes with DLNA, meaning it can browse the content from your DLNA-equipped phone and camera (and any other DLNA device) without any configuring; and it’ll also be able to access “Internet media”, which I’m guessing means the likes of YouTube and Flickr.

Put all this together and you have a low-cost alternative to the Sky+ box that will also help DLNA finally reach market penetration, as well as getting the masses used to seeing YouTube and Flickr on their TV. In other words, the Web is about to go mainstream as a major distributor of video content, and the process of it replacing traditional TV broadcasting is really gaining momentum.

Better still, with more and more companies supporting DLNA in increasingly-cheaper devices, the vision of all devices around the home being able to seamlessly share each other’s content is at last starting to become a reality.

We’ll be keeping a close eye on this Samsung box to see exactly what lurks behind its impenetrable facade (i.e. more news as soon as we get it!)

[Source: AkihabaraNews]

The Series 7 HDTVs are also DLNA-equipped, meaning they can seamlessly sync with other DLNA-equipped devices, such as your mobile phone or digital camera, and view all of the content stored there.

Best of all, though, is what Samsung is calling InfoLive: RSS content feeds delivered live to the TV via WiFi, with the information provided by Yahoo! Think of it as an extended (and hopefully less frustrating!) version of teletext,as it offers up to the minute news,weather and finance information directly to your TV.

That’s not all the Samsung Series 7 HDTVs can do though…

In addition, with DLNA and WiFi, these wonderfully flexible TVs will let you share content between any device in your house.

Not only can you view all the pics and videos from your phone (wirelessly too, remember), but also all the content you’ve download onto your PC.

Even more impressive, if you have a DLNA-equipped printer, you can print off any image directly from your TV, and all wirelessly.

The Series 7 TVs are high-end, and so,as you’d expect,come with some seriously impressive specs. There are two different types of technology used: Plasma and LCD. The three plasma models (in sizes of 50, 58 and a whopping 63″) feature full 1080p High-Def resolution, a 100Hz refresh rate, and a claimed 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.

The small LCD TVs (40,46 and 52″) feature an Ultra Clear Panel that reduces glare and reflection, and more accurate reds, blues and greens (which, though no doubt important, doesn’t sound anywhere near as exciting as a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio!)

It’s good to see Samsung recognizing the changing ways we use our TVs now, and designing their new TVs to accommodate the broad range of content that we wish to view. TV has changed forever, and so naturally the TVs have to adapt to all the user generated content we now have, and the plethora of different devices on which it’s stored.

Now all they need to do is to provide the same technology seen in the Series 7 TVs onto their TVs that are much lower down in the range, as we haven’t all got thousands to spend on our new TV!

[Source: AkihabaraNews]

Now, though, Samsung may be about to change all that with the announcement of the new Samsung INNOV8 i8510, a stunning high-end smartphone that really does deserve to be called a multimedia computer.


So what makes the Samsung INNOV8 so great then? Well, it contains the usual array of high-end smartphone features: Wi-Fi, 7.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity, GPS, and a whopping 8 megapixel camera. But what’s got us so fired up about this new smartphone is its 16GB of storage (expandable to 32GB), support for DivX out the box, and DLNA support.

DLNA, for those of you who don’t know, enables suitably equipped devices to share their media with other suitably equipped devices. So, for example, you could stream your videos from your mobile phone to your DLNA equipped HDTV over your WiFi connection, for free (as you’re using your own network) and all without moving from your seat.

This has been theoretically possible for some time now, but Sony Ericsson phones have been the only ones to support DLNA. Furthermore, the storage capabilities and connectivity options simply weren’t there before, meaning what you could do with DLNA on your mobile phone was distinctly limited.

No longer. The Samsung INNOV8 has just blown all that out of the water. 32GB is a huge amount of storage space, and should let you hold entire DVDs on your phone, all encoded in a variety of formats, including DivX. You can then watch those movies on your DLNA-equipped TV simply by picking up your phone, pairing with your TV and streaming the movies onto it. In effect the phone becomes remote control and video storage device in one, with the added benefit that you can pick it up and tkae it with you and still keep watching your movie no matter where you are.

Imagine watching the start of a movie at your house with your girlfriend, before going out for a spot of dinner, returning to her house and picking up where you left off simply by pairing your mobile phone with her TV.

The DLNA future has been a long time coming, but the technologies needed to take it mainstream are slowly emerging, and at a decent cost point, too. The Samsung INNOV8 i8510 is a stunning mobile phone, and if any phone deserves to be called a multimedia computer, it’s the INNOV8.