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CES 2013: TOSHIBA 4K ULTRA HDTV
Rob Sabin  |  Jan 10, 2013
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CES 2013: SHARP 4K ULTRA HDTV
Rob Sabin  |  Jan 10, 2013
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CES 2013: SAMSUNG CURVED SCREEN OLED TV
Rob Sabin  |  Jan 10, 2013
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CES 2013: SAMSUNG 4K ULTRA HD TV
Rob Sabin  |  Jan 10, 2013
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CES 2013: On the Show Floor
Bob Ankosko  |  Jan 10, 2013
You just never know who or what you’re going to run into while walking the show floor…

Dancing Robots: Tosy’s mRobo Ultra Bass is actually an MP3 player with a built-in speaker. When the music starts to play, the little guy turns into a dancin’ fool with some serious moves. Best part: Watching his head pop out from his chest when the music starts (mRobo is a mere torso before he springs into action).

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Samsung's Improved Plasmas
Tom Norton  |  Jan 09, 2013
Samsung's new F8500 plasma sets have been redesigned to provide not only darker blacks but brighter whites as well. In a darkened room demo (not the room in the photo!), a comparison with last year's Samsung plasma was convincing, and we hope to get our hands on one to confirm it when the sets become available about mid year.
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Samsung's Plain Old HD-2
Tom Norton  |  Jan 09, 2013
Also on display was the full range of Samsung's new LED-LCD sets. Shown is the F8000, available in a range of sizes up to 75-inches, it's said to offer much improved black levels with Samsung's Precision Black and Micro Dimming Ultimate (zone edge dimming). In a press demo in the same private, darkened room in which we saw the F8500 plasma, it did seem to have admirably rich blacks.
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CES 2013: A new brand goes BOOM
Brent Butterworth  |  Jan 09, 2013
A party Monday night at the Palms Towers in Las Vegas launched a colorful new audio brand targeted at ... well, whatever marketing term applies to people in their teens and 20s. (Gen-Z? Milennials? The beard/trucker hat/thick glasses set?) BOOM is a division of DEI holdings, whose other brands include Polk and Definitive Technology.
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Sony's 4K in Print
Tom Norton  |  Jan 09, 2013
Sony was the only Ultra HD 4K exhibitor that showed a still of a newspaper page in both standard HD and 4K Ultra HD. The photo shown here (standard HD) and below (4K) only show a very small area of the screen.
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Sony's 4K in Print - 2
Tom Norton  |  Jan 09, 2013
The color shift you may see here and above, plus moire, are the likely result of my camera's pixels strobing with the pixels on your screen. But other than cropping and identical downscaling, no other processing was performed on the photos here and above. The improved clarity of 4K version here is impossible to miss even after the photos were reduced so they could be used in our blog format. The differences were even more obvious in person.

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