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hey guys Brian town here at CES 2012 and we're inside a special Samsung booth to showcase Samsung's es 8000 series letv now the first thing that's unique about this TV set is up here on the top you'll notice you'll see a camera it's the first time that Samsung has included this and this is a camera with a microphone sure you can use it for Skype but you can also use it for their smart interaction and that includes turning on the TV using hand motion gestures and face recognition so what I want to try and do here this is a prototype right now but we want to showcase this off I'm gonna talk to the TV that turned on and we'll talk about some of the specs in a second alright let's get this shot hi TV and there you have it right the tv turns on with my voice now let's talk about a little bit about the design a really thin bezel one of samsung's signatures is really their design this specific TV series will come range enos in a size from 40 inches as high as 75 inches that's gonna depend on your region it's a 1080p TV with 240 Hertz refresh rate also this will use Samsung's 3d active glasses so this supports 3d content as well now we're also gonna keep on interacting with this smart interaction because this is really what makes the TV unique so I'm gonna take a step back here and let's just talk to it for a second alright here we go hi TV alright so you can see kind of that list of options on the bottom that I used my voice some of the cool things you can do is obviously you can go channel up channel down there's an IR blaster that's included with the television set this acts as the bridge between the microphone and your controller so you can control this TV with your voice to do volume up and volume down now another really cool thing about this television set in addition to the voice recognition is using hand gestures so I can wave at the television set and use my hand to navigate it this is either for web browsing navigating through the menus also you can do something like closing your hand to turn the chant to move the channels up move the channels down and then hold with a closed fist to move the channels up really rapidly because it's you don't want to be squeezing your hand the entire time over and over another cool feature about this television set is it also supports facial recognition now what that does is if you have people in your family mom dad and kids you might have different settings or different applications you want them to access so it will detect your face you can then create an account and then log in with those specific settings now the Samsung ES 8000 series these will be released sometime in the first quarter of 2012 there is no pricing yet and we know there's our large range of sizes but this is the entry into the home consumer market really taking voice control and facial recognition and hand gestures to the next level but there you have it first look at the Samsung ES 8000 series