CES 2021 To Be Virtual Trade Event In Wake Of COVID-19’s Re-Acceleration
It’s official — CES 2021 will be a virtual trade show this January for the first time in the consumer electronics show’s more than 50 year history — yet another victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. The event’s organizer the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) made the…
CTA Forecasts Show Ultra HD Blu-ray Players In Decline
More signs of the decline of the physical disc player market surfaced with the recent release of the Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA’s) 2020 January Sales & Forecasts Report, which now shows that shipments of Ultra HD Blu-ray players to the United States declined in both…
Samsung Posts 2020 85″ Q60T 4K QLED TV Specs
Samsung recently posted (and later removed) on its official website specifications for one of its first 2020 4K Ultra HDTV QLED models due to hit the U.S. market shortly — the 85-inch QN85Q60TAFXZA (Q60T series). As previously reported here, Samsung unveiled its 2020 8K Ultra…
Sony’s 2020 TV Product Strategy Explained
At the recent CES 2020 Sony gave us a run through of some of its top performing television series for the year ahead. Rob Brennan, Sony’s North American product technology manager, provided an overview of Sony’s television product positioning strategy for 2020 and an explanation…
4K Disc Players Conspicuous By Their Absence From CES
Whither the Ultra HD Blu-ray player category in 2020? CES gave us disturbingly little in the way of new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray hardware or software announcements for the year ahead. The show traditionally has been the launching pad for the new year’s player models,…
HD Guru’s 5 CES 2020 Takeaways On 8K Ultra HDTV
From the perspective of new 8K Ultra HDTV introductions, CES 2020 provided some interesting tells on the future direction of 8K big-screen entertainment for the home. Unfortunately, from a premium-tech perspective, 2020 models from virtually every brand still leave some open-ended questions to be answered…
CES Provided A Glimpse At The First `NextGen TVs’
LG, Samsung and Sony became the first TV makers to announce support for the NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) over-the-air broadcast format that may soon clear the way for regular transmissions of native 4K Ultra HD pictures with high dynamic range (HDR) and advanced sound as…
HD Guru Presents Best Of CES Awards To 15 Stunners
CES 2020 was covered wall-to-wall with amazing new products and technologies, but it’s television and home entertainment gear that excites The HD Guru enough to break a deep meditation session to hand out crystal trophies for excellence. This year, the process was no easy exercise…
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