LG joins the Google TV ranks with a CES 2012 announcement saying the company will launch HDTVs using a combination of the Android OS and LG 3D and Smart TV technologies.
The LG Google TV line will run on the company's L9 setup with a custom Google TV UI and Cinema 3D FPR (Film Patterned Retarder) technology. Joining the custom UI is a "QWERTY Magic Remote" combining gesture and voice control. We should have more details following the LG press conference later this week.
The company will still continue making smart TVs using its own NetCast-based system, which should be available in "more than 60%" of LG flat panel TVs in 2012.
In other LG CES announcements, the company introduces the "Cinema Screen Design"-- reducing Cinema 3D display bezels to just 1mm. Cinema 3D TVs will also start offering a Dual Play function, letting 2 players to only see their perspective using polarised glasses on certain games (as seen last year in the Sony Playstation 3D display).
