4K TV

Sony announced its FMP-X1 4K Ultra HD Media Player a few months ago, and on Tuesday confirmed it’s arriving in homes and on store shelves by July 15th. The $699 box only works with Sony’s own 4K TVs, and early adopting owners of “qualifying” X900A sets can expect a $200 introductory discount. Also available is Continue Reading →

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 few Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

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. Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →