On Wednesday we learned a lot about the Xbox One, the Microsoft next-gen gaming console, but there are some questions that remain unanswered, so I sat down with Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Interactive Entertainment Business, to try to get to the bottom of a few lingering questions and a ...
Best Buy Begins Carrying 4K TVs
on 5.22.13
Best Buy started offering the high-end Sony 4K Ultra High Definition TV sets in 700 of its U.S. stores on Sunday in an effort to shake up the stagnant TV category. The TVs — which have 8.3 million pixels compared with the 2.1 million pixels on regular high-definition TVs — are purported to have four times as sharp a ...
Sony Prices First 4K TVs … And They’re Not THAT Expensive
on 4.7.13
Think $25,000 for an 84-inch 4K TV is a bit tough to swallow? You're certainly not alone, but if you're willing to compromise on a few viewable inches, you could very well save yourself quite a bit of cash. At Sony's NAB press conference today here in Las Vegas, the company finally shared pricing for its smaller 4K models, ...
Next Xbox, PS4 Will Be Key to 4K TV Adoption
on 1.29.13
Next-gen TV—with a 4K "Ultra HD" picture resolution—was this year's hot topic at CES. But its success may be in the hands of console gamers. With leaked details of octal-core processor banks paired with 8GB of RAM, the PlayStation 4 "Orbis" is sounding powerful (just for comparison of RAM alone, the 8GB of system memory ...
World’s First Native 4K TV Channel Goes Live in Europe
on 1.14.13
Hot on the heels of CES, where 4K TVs stole the show, comes news that the world's first 4K TV channel is now live in Europe. Eutelsat, a French-based satellite provider, has just begun broadcasting in 4K on a demo channel. 4K, also called "Ultra HD," has four times the resolution of current high-def broadcasts. The format ...
Welcome to the Big Show: A Newbie’s First Trip to CES
on 1.13.13
I just got back from CES 2013. It was the first trade show I’ve ever been to. Like a woman on an elevator said to me, “There’s nothing like cutting your teeth on the world’s biggest show, huh?” Indeed. CES 2013 was everything I could have imagined and more. On Monday, before the show officially opened, I went ...
CES 2013: A Wrap-Up and Final Thoughts
on 1.11.13
The big story of the 2013 International CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) was what was missing. A quick walk through amazon.com's 1,000 retail show rooms (you may know them as Best Buy) tells the story. The electronics giant's days – at least in its current form – are quickly coming to an end. Best Buy will have to ...
CES 2013: Take a Look at These Weird Products
on 1.10.13
International CES 2013 is coming to an end (thank goodness), and it has been a blur of 4K TVs, phablets, mobile processors and more. As I write this, I’m struggling to think of one standout product from the show, but there are few that got my attention. Here are my faves, not because they’re bound to be the next big ...
CES 2013: We Have 4K TVs Now… What Comes Next?
on 1.9.13
Screens with 33 megapixel resolutions, projectors that blend their output to go as large as you want and screenless displays hint at the future of TV at CES. New TV tech has always been at the heart of the Consumer Electronics Show. The focus of last year's event was smart TV interfaces, but attention has swung back to ...
CES 2013: Samsung Announces Slew of New Audio Devices
on 1.6.13
Samsung's just unveiled its raft of audio products at CES and they're headlined by what the firm claims is a world's first: a sound bar to pack a built-in vacuum tube and Bluetooth for connecting to tubes of another kind (read: TVs). A portable wireless Bluetooth speaker (labeled the DA-F60), pumps out tunes with the apt-X ...
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