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I'm watching come CES coverage on TWiT with some guy from AVS who's visiting all the TV booths.
LG is going to ship a 55" and 60" OLED TV this year. The tech behind their screens may turn out to be really cool.
All the manufacturers seem to have some spin on screen tech to give a great pic. 4K seems to be pretty popular in the coming lineup.
I can't wait until some of these new sets hit the stores.
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Me and my 65" Panny plasma are happy to sit back and wait for things to shake out and the next clearly-superior display technology to make itself known.
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As a guy on Gizmodo noted, 3D is dead and who needs smart sets when you have AppleTV etc. Could be the occasion to pick up that 3Der for very cheap (you don't have to use the 3D).
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Steve G. wrote:
3D is dead stillborn
Fixed that for you.
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In the next few months you will be able to buy an Intel Atom based Win8.1 PC and plug into the HDMI port of any TV, powered from the USB, or a wallwart if the TV doesn't have USB. I don't know I would call it smart, but they are going to be $100 in a year or two. I think Apple is going to need the full OS X on a stick (either ARM or Intel) to compete.
A quad core i7 mini with HDMI 2.0 and a discrete GPU easily drive a 4K TV at WWDC might keep me from trying to popularize using beleagured again.
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No one except Apple or Roku really makes a decent interface for "extra" TV content. So putting Windows or even OS X on a USB stick doesn't appeal in the least, to me. Panasonic will soon be using Firefox's OS I think, and Samsung is finally adding an offshoot of what they wanted on their tablets to TV, so maybe smart TVs eventually will be smart?
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deckeda wrote:
No one except Apple or Roku really makes a decent interface for "extra" TV content.
Interesting that you should say that. When the current GUI for the AppleTV was released a few years back, it was roundly lambasted by reviewers as having taken a huge step backward.
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Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
In the next few months you will be able to buy an Intel Atom based Win8.1 PC and plug into the HDMI port of any TV, powered from the USB, or a wallwart if the TV doesn't have USB. I don't know I would call it smart, but they are going to be $100 in a year or two. I think Apple is going to need the full OS X on a stick (either ARM or Intel) to compete.
A quad core i7 mini with HDMI 2.0 and a discrete GPU easily drive a 4K TV at WWDC might keep me from trying to popularize using beleagured again.
kinda like this?
http://www.dx.com/p/mk808-cortex-a9-1-6g...K9SlXvNnVI
