Tuesday, December 27, 2016

CES: Audio/Video Dreamin'

In just a bit over a week Sound & Vision contributors will be traveling en masse to sleepy, laid-back Las Vegas for CES 2017, hoping to be wowed by all the new audio and video products headed our way in the coming year. Our show blogs will begin on Wednesday January 4th, the most significant (for us) of two days of formal press conferences before the show floor opens on January 5th.

What do we expect to see? The video side is always the most active, not only because TV models turn over every year but also because video is currently in a state of technological one-upmanship, with manufacturers competing fiercely for the top of the pile in Ultra HD and high dynamic range (HDR). Early in the UHD revolution, 2-3 years ago, prices were high with HDR virtually unheard of. Now UHD sets dominate the market.

When I was a lad an uncle declared that he wouldn’t buy a color TV until they were “perfected.” ...



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