Samsung home theater systems pack vacuum tubes, cloud DVD storage

Home theater has become pretty boring at recent CES gatherings--cheaper Blu-ray players, more sound bars, more streaming. Samsung is mixing it up a bit with with its new Blu-ray home-theater-in-a-box (HTIB) systems for 2012. The two big highlights: hybrid vacuum tube amplifiers (which will hopefully offer some old-school, warm analog-style sound), and a "disc to digital" feature that Samsung says will "enable users to turn eligible copies of their personal DVD collection into digital content." Obviously, that last one needs some significant details fleshed out--details we're hoping to hear at Samsung's press conference on Monday.

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Samsung HTIBs with tubes, cloud DVD storage