NEW DELHI: American imaging pioneer
Kodak has forayed into India, launching five LED TVs in the country. Kodak’s LED TVs are available in three screen sizes - 32-inch, 40-inch and 50-inch. While the 32-inch and 40-inch models are available in both standard and smart variants, the 50-inch model is a smartTV. Although the company has not provided any decisive pricing for the TVs, it claimed that the products will range between Rs 13,500 and Rs 40,000.
Kodak’s LED TVs will be on sale starting August 15. While the 32-inch TV will be available exclusively on
ShopClues, the 40-inch and 50-inch models will be available on both Amazon and
Flipkart.
The standard variants of both 32-inch and 40-inch TVs come with built-in games and have panels from
Samsung.
The smart TVs (all three screen sizes) have Wi-Fi support and are powered by ARM Cortex A7 processors coupled with 512MB RAM and 4GB of internal storage. Offering Air Mouse support, the TVs run
Android
4.4 KitKat.
The TVs come with wide viewing angles and also have features like progressive scan, yPbPr colour space and a response time of less than 8ms. For connectivity, Kodak’s LED TVs come with HDMI, USB and VGA support.
The company said that it plans to come up with more models in both standard and smart variants, and even launch some curved TV models in the coming quarters.
After
LeEco and
Micromax, Kodak is the third company to launch a range of TV series in India this month.
This week, Micromax launched a new range of Canvas Smart LED TVs. The LED TVs come in three screen sizes - 30-inch, 40-inch and 50-inch, priced at Rs 19,999, Rs 29,999 and Rs 42,999 respectively.
LeEco
also launched three
Android Lollipop-based smartTVs recently, with price starting at Rs 59,790. The LeEco Super3 televisions are available in two screen sizes — 55-inch and 65-inch. There are two models with 65-inch screen size — LeTV Super3 65 and LeTV Super3 Max65, priced at Rs 99,790 and Rs 1,49,790 respectively.