Oddly enough the Sony PR event was the best of the day. They definitely had the best TVs (although not the largest) to show off; announcing a 55″ and 65″ 4K display at “more affordable pricing” and showing of a [smallish] 56″ 4K OLED TV prototype. With so much focus on 4K, it was also great to see that they […]
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The thing I like most about DISH Networks events is how they announce features that we HTPC enthusiasts have enjoyed for years. Things like commercial skipping, connected and disconnected place shifting are nothing new to us, but of course they are major innovations to mainstream users, especially to those where the DVR is a new innovation. DISH adding these features […]
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NETGEAR had a little something for the connected home enthusiast at their PR event today. Adding Sling to the NeoTV MAX was neat, but unless you have a Sling box it wasn’t nearly as interesting as the NeoTV PRIME. While I have to question the name (don’t we have enough PRIME devices out there?), their implementation of Google TV did […]
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Where Panasonic didn’t want to talk display tech, Sharp was all about the advancements they’d made in the last year to make bigger, brighter & better consumer displays. The IGZO process, codeveloped with Corning, is the main driver of this year’s top-of-the-line TVs -which top out at 90″. If that’s too big they are also selling 80, 70 & 60″ […]
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Panasonic isn’t known for putting on flashy press conferences, so expectations around the entertainment quality of the demos and product announcements were set appropriately low. Unfortunately even with a low bar there were several disappointments with the TVs announced today, first they aren’t getting any bigger (still maxing out at 65″) and details were very sparse on any of the […]
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