Bose unveiled its first video product Tuesday, a $5,349 46-inch, 120Hz, 1080p LCD TV with an integrated multi-speaker audio system, outboard console switcher and a game-changing remote control. All sound comes from the screen, with no subwoofer, and the system was designed to create “spaciousness, to reproduce low notes” and to “transport listeners to another place just by using sound,” according to Santiago Carvajal, business director for Bose video products.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Samsung is less sure when long-anticipated large OLED TV sets are coming than it is about what will follow, a representative said Tuesday. “Don’t ask me when” OLED TV will arrive commercially, said Ho Kyoon Chung, adviser to Samsung Mobile Display. Asked when Samsung will sell OLEDs with plastic substrates, he replied after delivering a keynote at the OLEDs World Summit: “My favorite word is ‘coming soon.'” But Chung expressed confidence that he knows “the next big thing” after OLED TV: flexible AMOLED technology for bendable, unbreakable displays. AMOLED is short for active matrix organic light-emitting diode.

SEATTLE -- Applications will break the bounds of “stores” operated by Apple, Google and others as Web technology advances, a Motorola director told the TechNW conference. Other company representatives agreed apps aren’t simply a passing “fad,” but said mobile growth could be hampered by problems including bandwidth crunches, unproven monetization strategies and small screen sizes.

A group of industry and recycling players announced the creation Monday of R2 Solutions, a non-profit that will administer and oversee the Responsible Recycling (R2) standards for electronics recyclers. The R2 standards were developed by a group of industry and recycler stakeholders led by the EPA. The new outfit will promote the use of R2 standards, provide administrative support and help educate the public about responsible recycling, it said.

The EPA proposed incentives to encourage adoption of what’s called “deep sleep state” capabilities in set-top boxes as part of changes it proposed in draft two of Energy Star version 3.0 specification. Deep sleep is defined as a “power state” within the sleep mode that uses less power “due to lack of network access and increased time required to return to full on mode functionality.” The industry has raised concerns about the deep sleep requirements, especially about consumer experiences with the delayed waking of boxes from the deep sleep mode.

Sony will ship a 46-inch Google TV-based LCD TV and Blu-ray player this fall, while Logitech fields a standalone set-top box, Google Product Marketing Manager Brittany Bohnet told us Tuesday. Google was demonstrating the TV at a Best Buy news conference in New York City highlighting the chain’s holiday plans.

Career FCC staff recommended the agency let cable operators use HD set-top boxes lacking CableCARDs and with basic, non-interactive functionality so subscribers with older TVs can get HD service without leasing a more costly box, agency and industry officials said. That’s in a draft version of an order meant to make improvements to CableCARDs before the regulator issues rules for all pay-TV providers to let subscribers connect any video device to their systems using a cheap gateway device that would let customers more easily switch providers.

Epson will ship a home theater projector in December featuring a new 0.74-inch reflective LCD that delivers deeper blacks and better contrast ratios to challenge LCoS technology championed by Sony and JVC, Epson officials said.

ATLANTA -- While audio and video companies talked at CEDIA last week about adjusting to a changing market and next-gen consumers, home automation company Control4 had its sights firmly on the future. Lower revenue, slim margins and the continued malaise in home construction continue to weigh down dealers and manufacturers, but Control4 has remained in “a bubble” separated from the struggles of the overall custom electronics market, CEO Will West told Consumer Electronics Daily. “We've been growing and adding market share,” he said.

3D is “not the solution for everything that ails the entertainment industry,” and not every movie should be made in 3D, IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond said Friday at a conference that kicked off the three-day 3D Experience: 3D Entertainment & Technology Festival in New York. CE and technology company executives, meanwhile, cited challenges to 3D’s gaining mainstream adoption in homes.