CES was more than just a Grand Canyon filled with eye candy — the sci-fi-beautiful TVs we saw are real, and you’re gonna want them. But OLED? 8k? Crystal Display? What’s all this mean? We’ll explain the pretty new things. More »
Glasses free 3D TV sounds crazy because, well, that would look a whole lot like real life. This newest Sony incarnation feels closer than ever — almost like Sony might actually one day Lasek our experience of the 3D TV. More »
My eyes have never felt so good than when they saw Samsung Super OLED TV. IT WAS SOO CLEAR. I went to go see it up close and it’s beaaaautiful. Seriously, you’ll see its gorgeousness in the video, but it’s even better-looking in person. Criminally good lookin’. More »
Samsung’s new and supposedly snazzy Smart TV, the UNES8000, promises to use voice and face recognition to let you control your TV without any remotes. You know, the future of TV interfaces, according to a lot of companies lately. More »
Nuance, the amazing voice-recognition technology behind Siri and other voice-recognition software on phones, has announced that they’ll be bringing their voice tech to TVs now with Dragon TV. Basically, Nuance wants you to talk to your TVs. And since Apple is supposedly making an HDTV that let’s you talk to the TV, this is getting VERY interesting. More »
Samsung’s long made some of the best HDTVs — and now that they’re all decked out with 3D and apps, what’s left? Beautiful, slim TVs that’ll use your voice and face as controls. That rumoured Apple iTV just got jumped. Also new from Samsung…a separate 55-inch Super OLED TV. Damn! More »
3DTV has earned its bad rap, and for good reason. Fast-moving sequences get blurry, the contrast gets soggy depending on the room’s brightness, and good luck if you try to watch low-resolution videos. But Sony’s new Bravia HX 850 series aims to eliminate all these issues in one fell swoop. More »
Sure, you can spend $US6,000 (or more) for a top-of-the-line HDTV with more bells and whistles than you can shake a remote at. But if you’re on a budget, Panasonic’s newest line of plasma HDTV’s offer top-flight features for bargain-bin prices. More »
LED televisions until now have generally just used an LED power source to light the LCD display. This differs from the Jumbo-trons you see at sports arenas, where each pixel is an individual LED. Now, Sony’s bringing the big-screen technology to your living room with its Crystal LED Display. More »
Looks like 2012 will be the closest thing we’ve had to the year of the OLED — real products with serious screen size. Like Samsung’s “Super OLED”, offering 55 inches of mega-rich colour and brightness. Bonus: Kinect-esque body tracking, too. More »
