Thomas J. Norton

Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 11, 2018  |  1 comments
Sony’s newly minted Aibo (the wonder robot dog) drew crowds in the Sony booth, marveling at its nearly real actions (though he moved slower than a live animal).
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  0 comments
ATSC 3.0 is the new standard for over the air broadcasting, designed to provide for Ultra HD, multi-screen, mobile reception, and a host of other advanced capabilities that our current system cannot support...
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  1 comments
The past few years visitors to the LG booth at CES have been treated to amazing visuals produced from dozens or even hundreds of OLED displays...
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  0 comments
The crowds at CES this year, as usual, were often suffocating...
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  0 comments
While Hisense currently offers 4K short-throw laser projectors at 80-,88, and 100-inches (all of which require special, dedicated, included screens, at CES they showed a new 150-inch design.
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  0 comments
We don’t usually expect to see new projectors at CES (that’s normally CEDIA territory) but LG showed its new HU80KA 4K entry.
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  1 comments
We don’t generally don’t cover computer monitors at CES, but LG showed a wide selection of 4K and higher resolution designs...
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  0 comments
At its CES press event LG introduced new intelligent processors for its premier OLEDs (Alpha 9) and NanoCell LCD-LEDs (Alpha 7). These new devices are said to improve color and sharpness, along with enhanced noise reduction, better handling of smooth gradations, advanced color mapping, and a OLED frame rate capability of up to 120 frames per second...
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  0 comments
Hisense spent much of the time at its press conference on its sponsorship of the upcoming soccer World Cup (football in most if the world). It even brought in two well-known soccer commentators (though not well known here) and several stars of the game. The big news on the Hisense-World Cup connection is that newly purchased Hisense Smart TVs will come pre-loaded with an application (via Fox Sports GO in the US) that will not only provide live feeds of the games but also offer 37 different, user selectable camera angles.

But there was news on Hisense’s new 4K displays as well...

Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 09, 2018  |  1 comments
Kazuo Hirai, Sony’s head honcho for the US market, gave Sony’s entire press event standing in front of a huge screen with constantly changing images (though all of them stills). There was no information provided as to what sort of display the screen was, but I plan to inquire later in the show as it was perhaps the most impressive display shown during the entire press day. But it’s apparently not a technology currently used in a consumer product...

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