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LAS VEGAS - A variety of Samsung audio products intended for first-half shipment include the company's first soundbar with tube amplifier, first HTiBs with post-processing technology that creates a virtual 10.1 -channel soundfield, and first HTiB with 4K by 2K passthrough and upscaling.
The company also launched its first portable Bluetooth speaker.
In HTiBs, two new models in corporate DTS-Neo Fusion post processing technology to deliver a virtual 10.1 -channel soundfield from 5.1- and 7.1 -channel audio sources played back through a 5.1- or 7.1 -speaker system.
The first-half lineup consists of the HT-F6500W and HT-F9730W HTiBs, HW-F550 and HW-F750 soundbars, and DA-F60 portable Bluetooth speaker. Pricing wasn't available.
HTiBs: Both new HTiBs, the 5.1 -channel HT-F6500W and 7.1 -channel HT-F9730W, feature 3D Blu-ray playback, streaming audio and video services, access to Samsung's app store, DLNA-networking, vacuum-tube preamps, and digital amplifiers like their predecessors, but the new models add DTS-Neo Fusion post-processing to generate virtual height and front-width channels. Both models are...