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hi i'm ty pendlebury from cnet com and i'm here at the close of CES 2012 in Las Vegas we saw a lot of excellent technology this year but the best was OLED or organic light-emitting diode before two televisions from both Samsung and LG and the best news is as technology you'll be able to buy this year Samsung's OLED screen was particularly impressive and featured great blacks and a very nice design but what we saw is a prototype and Samsung would tight-lipped about the technology behind it or even a release date apart from OLED there was another space age technology on show Sony's crystal display it's a baseball scoreboard shrunk down into a 55 inch television there are six million LEDs inside the screen but sadly it's only a prototype one technology that was cool but nowhere near ready was toshibas glasses-free 3d LCD this will be the first glasses-free television to hit the US market and it'll be in the first few months of 2011 but watching it is a little like concentrating on one of those magic eye pictures for 90 minutes at a time we'll take the glasses for now meanwhile plasma keeps on getting better and better and both Samsung and Panasonic released updated versions of last year's award winners the new Panasonic VT 50 offers even better blacks in a stylish cabinet while the Samsung es 8000 includes enhanced picture quality and the novel gesture and voice based control method and here we have our pick for the best of CES 2012 the LG am 9600 OLED TV now this is a 55 inch television it's coming to market later this year probably around the September timeframe no price has been set yet but as you can see it's a stunning television and it has the edge over the Samsung in that it's actually a real product so if you're looking to buy the best TV you'll see this year make it an OLED so this has been a look at some of the exciting technology we've seen at CES 2012 I'm ty pendlebury from cnet com