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When Hollywood depicts top-flight technology, the oversize flat screen always plays a starring role. What law enforcement outfit or Bond nemesis can't boast at least one lust-inducing wall covered with plasma? Unsightly wires, though, never enter the frame. Even a time-crunched supervillain recognizes that a television deserves to be hung with Louvre-like attention to detail. Samsung agrees—its latest 58-inch plasma-screen TV is the first in the U.S. to beam a picture straight to the monitor, eliminating that hideous tangle of cables and AV wires.
The set employs the latest in hot-spot technology, five times faster than your typical Starbucks-style WiFi network. HD broadcasts look just as eerily crisp as they would on a hardwired setup, and won't suffer any embarrassing load-time debacles. The base station, which can be thoughtfully tucked out of view, has enough input outlets for an army of little black boxes, so the ports that mar the seamless look of other TVs have, like so many vestigial organs, been phased out. And at a top-of-the-line 1080p resolution, the blacks are as inky as deep space. For eyes accustomed to iPhone-size wireless screens, Samsung's latest is a vision of the future that has materialized—conveniently—just in time for the play-offs.
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