Samsung Electronics has announced the expansion of its award-winning lifestyle Home Entertainment portfolio with the addition of The Terrace, its first outdoor 4K QLED TV and accompanying soundbar.

The Terrace is a Samsung Smart TV that is specifically designed to bring the full indoor entertainment experience outside.A consumer model of The Terrace was launched in the U.S. and Canada in May,and it’s now followed by rollouts to Germany, Australia,New Zealand and other regions later this year. And for businesses, a professional model will be launching later in the year.

Available in 55-, 65- and 75-inch models, The Terrace fits perfectly with outdoor living spaces and delivers Samsung’s industry-leading QLED 4K display technology and Smart TV features.With an IP55 rating,the Terrace’s display boasts weather-resistant durability, while offering a slim and sleek design at a mere 59.8mm and comes fitted for easy installation outdoors.

“Today, new lifestyles habits and trends are evolving faster than ever before. Consumers are using screens to work from home, exercise using online platform, stay in touch with loved ones, and engage with many other activities. Screen should also be evolving in line with these lifestyle changes,” said Jonghee Han, President of Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. “With the introduction of The Terrace, we are thrilled to transcend the connected living room experience to the outdoors by delivering on engineering feats and content experiences that only Samsung can achieve.”

The Terrace offers a crystal-clear display to increase visibility in all sorts of outdoor conditions. It provides a brightness level of 2,000 nits, ensuring that users will be able to enjoy content in vivid picture quality, even in broad daylight. Its QLED 4K display is perfect for sports fans: with a high motion rate, it provides clear, lifelike picture quality, ideal for motion-intensive content.Also,the display is coated with anti-reflection and adaptive picture technology which optimizes content by analysing its surroundings to minimise unwanted glare.

The Terrace offers various content and browsing experiences that deliver seamless entertainment even outdoors. The Terrace comes equipped with Tizen, Samsung’s Smart TV platform, which powers features such as Samsung TV Plus, a free linear TV video service with over 120 channels, Samsung Health, a comprehensive fitness and wellness platform as well as the leading subscription streaming services.

In addition to supporting mobile viewing capabilities like Multi View and Tap View, the Terrace also supports multiple voice services including Bixby, Amazon Alexa and the soon to launch Google Assistant, helping it fit naturally into the smart home ecosystem.

Finally,The Terrace and The Terrace Soundbar offer dynamic sound that redefines the dimensions of home theatre. Right out of the box, The Terrace delivers high-quality sound and a deep and clear bass sound from its built-in woofers. For those who want to customize their TV’s sound output, The Terrace has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, allowing it to be paired with The Terrace Soundbar or other devices. To offer the clear, rich sound for immersive audio experience, The Terrace Soundbar features distortion cancelling technology regardless of the surrounding environment.

Made for outdoors, The Terrace Soundbar can cope with water and dust, and can be mounted to a wall, or directly to The Terrace TV. It packs powerful and crisp audio for a truly immersive outdoor home theatre experience.

The Terrace is the latest evolution of Samsung’s award-winning Lifestyle TV portfolio first introduced in 2016 with the debut of The Serif. Samsung’s Lifestyle TV portfolio combines impressive technical performance including picture quality with personalized experiences for today’s consumers.

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This week I was honoured to be a guest of JBL at their 5.1 Soundbar Launch.

At the historical Golden Age Cinema in the Sydney CBD, media were treated to an evening with Mad Max and audio supreme-ness.

After light refreshments, all attendees were ushered in to the medium sized theater and after a presentation and being informed that the only audio that we were about to experience was to be coming from the JBL 5.1 Soundbar system.

Golden Age Cinema – Sydney, Australia (photo taken with Samsung Galaxy S9)

Mad Max: Fury Road lit up the big screen as our ear drums vibrated to the rumbling bass of the action and our senses went into overdrive as the sounds of the action swirled around us.

At the end of the film, one of the media asked a JBL representative if they could assure us that the cinema audio we just heard was solely from their 5.1 Soundbar.

It was. JBL had bypassed the theater’s internal audio and all movie audio was being fed directly in to the Soundbar’s receiver.

So here we had been introduced to the all-new JBL BAR series.

Golden Age Cinema – Sydney, Australia (photo taken with Samsung Galaxy S9)

A line of high-performance soundbars with a slender design, Bluetooth 4.0 for streaming music and superior sound quality. Available in four models, the BAR STUDIO, BAR 2.1, BAR 3.1, and BAR 5.1, the series gives entertainment lovers customisable options to fit any home theater environment.

JBL’s most expansive soundbar series to date fills any room with theatre-quality sound to elevate the enjoyment of TV, movies, music and video games. In addition to featuring JBL Signature Sound and Dolby Digital decoding, the BAR series comes equipped with additional speakers to further enhance sound performance. Exceptional bass ensures viewers won’t miss a single beat or blast, whether listening to music or indulging in the latest Hollywood thriller.

JBL BAR 5.1

Engineered to make entertainment simpler, the BAR series is easy to set up and has multiple convenient connections, including HDMI and HDMI ARC inputs as well as Optical and AUX wired connections. The higher models, including 3.1 and 5.1, come with multiple 4K HDMI pass-through inputs to connect additional devices like Blu-Ray players, game consoles and more. For increased ease of use, each soundbar is programmed to respond to the TV remote, eliminating the need for multiple controllers. For those who love the second screen experience, the JBL BAR series also comes equipped with JBL SoundShift technology, allowing users to instantly swap audio sources.

“With the all-new JBL BAR series, we redefine the home theatre experience by delivering epic JBL Signature Sound in a sleek and stylish package,” said Marcus Fry, Brand Activation Director, of AUNZ at HARMAN. “Designed with the user in mind, it is the ultimate home audio solution for every type of listener, and the perfect accent to any living space.”

JBL BAR 3.1

The new BAR series meets the needs of every home setting without sacrificing sound quality and aesthetics. With premium material and surface finishes, slim designs to fit the latest TV form factors and a front visual display for a better user interface experience, the JBL BAR series delivers sound quality, simplicity and design wrapped into one.

JBL’s BAR series is available at Harvey Norman and JB HI FI (AU and NZ).

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