Gadgetory

so in some ways CES is not the most relevant show in the world anymore it's not really the place to go to see the technology that is changing people's lives and meaningful ways but one thing that CES is really really great for is TVs and giant screens and looking at the future of looking at things and the best place to start is LG's booth which is the first thing you see as you go in to see yes there is this crazy Canyon of OLED panels that funnels you into the booth and once you're here there is a lot to look at so LG already makes the best TVs in the world it's all that ranges available now and they've updated that of course this year the new models for 2018 have Google assistant Amazon Alexa and UI tweaks for webOS but looking further forward there's a lot of crazy stuff as well LG display the display panel arm of the company is working on this unbelievable 65 inch rollerball display which just rolls up right like a newspaper and the company is also starting to experiment with 8k as well so Samsung on the other hand is kind of not really doing all that TVs anymore they used to show up them at CES every year right now it focuses on LED and this year it's showing off a new technology called micro LED which it claims is going to kinda like overtake OLED and offer all of its benefits without some of the drawbacks and the way it's demonstrating micro LED is with this unbelievable huge panel called the wall and it's a modular TV it's built up of different blocks and you can make this as big or small as you like so of course the wall is not going to be coming to many people's living rooms anytime soon but it's an interesting vision of how something is planning for the future of TV's so it's not just TVs CES is a great place to check out monitors as well and in some ways the lines between monitors and TVs are actually kind of blurring a lot of companies are showing off gaming one Assistants about HDR which until now has not really been a thing that's taking off in the PC space so you're saying relatives from Lenovo issues a whole bunch of companies that are like making a shara thing on PC LG has this incredible 5p ultrawide monitor with Thunderbolt 3 which I demand to have on my desk immediately nvidia is maybe making the most interesting gaming panels here it has this new platform called the big format gaming display which is a way for companies to make 65-inch 4k HD our gaming displays with G sync and gsync is Nvidia's technology that syncs the display and the GPU for really really smooth natural output it's an amazing technology for a monitor and to have it in this huge crazy 65 inch long factories like it's kind of unprecedented so of course most of the screens and TVs and panels you're looking at at CSR 4k 4k has been a big buzzword for many years at CES and it's not really the stuff of future dreams anymore it's a mainstream technology but in some places like gaming voce has always been a little bit of a compromise the gaming monitors have been capped at 60 Hertz at 4k so if you prioritize frame rate over resolution they it's not being the best technology to go for but with things like Nvidia is big format gaming display things are changing you can now have the best of both worlds you can run games at 4k and you can run about 120 Hertz and get absolutely an amazing experience and this is the kind of thing to CES is grateful right like seemingly intuitive spec upgrades that in practice if you care about this stuff will actually make a huge difference your experience and that's really why I can see it I love to look at the stuff I love to look at these unbelievable screens and it's just fun to think about like what my living room is gonna look like 5 10 30 years into the future