Should be officially announced at CES 2009 which takes place on the 8th-11th January 2009. Information on Deciphering the product code is in this post.
Bear in mind the Manuals aren't the final versions which will ship with the TV's, and may not be representitive of the final product. For those that copy these posts to other forums (Celle etc), please make sure people are aware of this.
Warrenty for the UK should be 1 year [link deleted by admin at the request of Samsung] and for Western Europe it should be 2 years [link deleted by admin at the request of Samsung].
New Features for 2009
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There are one new 3 series planned, three new 4 series planned; the 4B, 4C and the 4Q. Two new 4 series planned; the 5K and the 5P. Four new 6 planned; the 6A, 6N, 6R and the 6T. Finally there is one new 7 series, the 7U.
The lineup for 2009 currently appears to be:
LCD
Western Europe
Series 4
[link to manual deleted by admin at the request of Samsung]
Series 5
Bear in mind the Manuals aren't the final versions which will ship with the TV's, and may not be representitive of the final product. For those that copy these posts to other forums (Celle etc), please make sure people are aware of this.
Warrenty for the UK should be 1 year [link deleted by admin at the request of Samsung] and for Western Europe it should be 2 years [link deleted by admin at the request of Samsung].
New Features for 2009
- There is a new support menu. It has the user manual, sound/ picture diagnostics, DTV signal meter, HD connections which it lists as "How to get the best performance from your TV.". In the support menu is also a firmware upgrade option and will display the TV's current firmware version. The new style 16:9 colour user manual is in Adobe Flash format and is very easy to navigate via the remote
- For 100hz (120hz US) Motion Plus there is now a custom setting. This has two options:
- Blur Reduction: Adjusts the blur reduction level in video sources.
- Judder Reduction: Adjusts the judder reduction level in video sources with film signals.
- Motion Plus 'Low' has been renamed to 'Clear' and 'High' to 'Smooth'.
- Black Adjust → Off/ Low/ Medium/ High has been renamed to Black Tone → Off / Dark / Darker / Darkest.
- Optical Link Ready. Optical passthough?
- BD Wisesync. Talks to other Blu-ray/ HTX devices to optimise HD playback
- Natural Picture mode joins Standard, Dynamic and Movie. Natural Selects the picture for optimum and eye-comfortable display. BD Wise picture mode will also be avalible if connected to a Samsung Blu-Ray/ DVD BD-Wise compatible device.
- Film Mode. The TV can be set to automatically sense and process film signals from all sources and adjust the picture for optimum quality.
- Divx Certified. Although the A756/ A856/ A956 supported playing Divx media files, but weren't officially certified as Divx devices.
- Divx Video On Demand
- Now supports playback of movies in the following formats upto 1080p: MKV/ WMV/ VOB/ AVI/ TS/ 3GP/ MPG/ ASF
- Now supports the following video codecs:
- XviD
- DivX 3.11/4.x/5.1/6.0/
- H.264 BP/MP/HP
- MPEG-1
- MPEG-2
- MPEG-4 SP/ASP
- Motion JPEG
- Windows Media Video V9
- VC1
- 2 x USB2.0 Ports. Along with the much improved media capabilites, Some of the TV's features a pair of USB2.0 ports on the side. Now you can have the optional wireless adaptor plugged in one USB slot, while using the other for connecting to storage device drives. Both USB ports are on the side on these models, and the headphone socket been moved round the back.
- Internet@TV. A feature rich replacement for InfoLive, uses Yahoo Widgets from Samsung's partnership with Yahoo.
There are one new 3 series planned, three new 4 series planned; the 4B, 4C and the 4Q. Two new 4 series planned; the 5K and the 5P. Four new 6 planned; the 6A, 6N, 6R and the 6T. Finally there is one new 7 series, the 7U.
The lineup for 2009 currently appears to be:
LCD
Western Europe
Series 4
- LE19B450C4W
- LE22B450C4W
[link to manual deleted by admin at the request of Samsung]
- LE26B450C4W
- LE32B450C4W
Series 5
B530
- LE32B530P7W
- LE37B530P7W
- LE40B530P7W
- LE46B530P7W
B550
The B551, B552 and B553 are cosmetic variations of the B550
[link to manual deleted by admin at the request of Samsung]
Series 6
The B653 should be a cosmetic variation of the B650.
B530
The HDMI to use with PC DVI input has changed to HDMI-1 instead of HDMI-2. Loses USB port for wiselink, now has a USB service port on the rear. The custom colour space in detail menu is no longer availible. No xvYCC colour support. In Colour tone it loses cool1 and cool2, now there is only cool. No PIP/ PAP. No seperate audio in for when using a DVI ==> HDMI cable, now uses the same 3.5mm socket as the VGA does. Has no Headphone socket. 1 Scart socket, no S-VHS.
- LE32B550A5W
- LE37B550A5W
- LE40B550A5W
- LE46B550A5W (Expected LExxB550K, typo?)
- LE32B551A5W
- LE37B551A5W
- LE40B551A5W
- LE46B551A5W (Expected LExxB551K, typo?)
- LE32B552A5W
- LE37B552A5W
- LE40B552A5W
- LE46B552A5W (Expected LExxB552K, typo?)
- LE32B553A5W
- LE37B553A5W
- LE40B553A5W
- LE46B553A5W (Expected LExxB553K, typo?)
The B551, B552 and B553 are cosmetic variations of the B550
[link to manual deleted by admin at the request of Samsung]
Series 6
B650
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- LE32B650T2W
- LE37B650T2W
- LE40B650T2W
- LE46B650T2W
- LE32B653T5W
- LE37B653T5W
- LE40B653T5W
- LE46B653T5W
The B653 should be a cosmetic variation of the B650.
B530
The HDMI to use with PC DVI input has changed to HDMI-1 instead of HDMI-2. Loses USB port for wiselink, now has a USB service port on the rear. The custom colour space in detail menu is no longer availible. No xvYCC colour support. In Colour tone it loses cool1 and cool2, now there is only cool. No PIP/ PAP. No seperate audio in for when using a DVI ==> HDMI cable, now uses the same 3.5mm socket as the VGA does. Has no Headphone socket. 1 Scart socket, no S-VHS.
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