LAS VEGAS–At LG’s press conference today, the company unveiled a range of products that was both impressive and bizarre. First, LG’s LHX TV will be the first with built-in uncompressed 1080p HD wireless transmission. The TV is also 1 in. thick, has new 240 Hz image processing to smooth motion blur, has dynamic LED backlighting to allow variable contrast across the face of the screen and has direct-to-TV streaming of Netflix movies and YouTube videos, as well as the potential for onscreen Yahoo widgets (no pricing was mentioned on the set during the conference, but we’re expecting the LHX to be high-end). The conference ran long, with no time for questions, so we have no idea what wireless HD standard LG is using, but its probably not wireless HDMI, or the company would have mentioned that. Just what the electronics industry needs; another format war.

Also briefly mentioned was a dual-mic DSE noise-cancellation technology that LG is planning to build into its phones, essentially appropriating a now common technology found in Bluetooth headsets and making it part of the phone. However, there was no information when and what products this would show up on.

Perhaps the wackiest product unveil that LG seems actually serious about was a touchscreen watch phone. I’m not kidding. The spokesperson showed off a working model and claims that the devices will be ready for production by the end of the year. Even more bizarre than the product itself is the fact that, when I think about it, I’d wear one of these things. (LG might just convince tech nerds to start using wristwatches again.)

Finally, almost lost in the conference was a quick mention of a network-attached-storage drive with Blu-ray read-write capability. What the?! A gigabit-Ethernet-connected, Blu-ray ripping/writing NAS drive with up to 4 TB capacity? I want that even more than the phonewatch. And that only got 2 seconds of discussion. –Glenn Derene