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If your TV tastes swing a little larger than their new Touch of Color monitors, Samsung have just the larger screens for you. Unveiling its holiday lineup of Series 6 through 9 LCD and plasma HDTVs, the company has extended Touch of Color throughout as well as adding features such as compatibility with USB flash drives and RSS for on-screen news and weather updates. The Series 6 LCDs will be available in 40-inch, 46-inch and 60-inch sizes, all with 40,000:1 dynamic contrast ratios and 4ms response time. They have built-in NTSC/ATSC/Clear QAM tuners, three HDMI 1.3 ports, a single side-mounted USB for MP3 and JPEG playback off a flash drive and display full 1080p high-definition. They’ll be available in August for $1,699.99, $2,099.99 and $2,699.99 respectively. The Series 7 are Samsung’s plasma range, and come in 50-inch, 58-inch and 63-inch sizes. All are 1080p with 1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 1,300 cd/m2 brightness and Natural True Color 18-bit processing. They also include a USB port, which can cope with MPEG4, XviD, MP3 and JPEG files, as well as having their own internal flash memory; Samsung’s InfoSync service is basically news, weather and stock information delivered via RSS. Expect four HDMI 1.3 ports and ethernet, among others, when they launch for $2,799.99, $4,499.99 and $4,999.99 respectively. The Series 8 get super-skinny frames, just 1.9-inches wide, around either 46-inch or 52-inch 1080p panels. 50,000:1 contrast ratios and 4ms response times are coupled with Ultra Clear Panel anti-glare technology, Auto Motion Plus 120MHz and Wide Color Enhancer 2; there’s also InfoLink and the WiseLink Pro USB system. Two ranges of Series 8 will be available, the 850 in ‘Rose’ with a single USB or the 860 in ‘Deep Blue’ with two USB; both ranges have four HDMI 1.3 ports and ethernet, and are DLNA certified. Expect to pay $2,699.99 or $3,399.99 for the 46- or 52-inch 850 versions, and $100 on top for the 860 versions. Finally, Series 9 gets all the benefits of the earlier LCD TVs together with LED backlighting, 1,000,000:1 contrast, 4ms response time and SmartLighting to selectively shut off the backlight for individual pixels for deeper blacks. Available in August in 46- and 55-inch sizes, they each have four HDMI 1.3 ports and will be priced at $3,199.99 and $4,199.99 respectively. Series 8 and Series 9 sets will be compatible with Samsung’s new Wireless LinkStick, a $35 accessory that allows for wireless connection to the InfoSync RSS service (rather than demanding an ethernet cable). Samsung LCD and Samsung Plasma TVs Relevant Entries on SlashGear Samsung reveal latest LCD & Plasma price-list CES 2008: Samsung Series 4 & Series 5 3D-ready entry-level Plasma TVs Pioneer shows off new 8G plasma TVs Panasonic Re-introduces a better 103-inch 1080p Plasma Pocket Plasma