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My Professional Armchair Analysis of CES

There was a lot to see at CES. I made a virtual visit by post-obit the feeds and analysis of the news media, which over covers the evidence, thus making personal attendance redundant. I've been to far too many tech shows and my coverage is pretty much the same if I go or not. And then here is my CES armchair coverage.

OpinionsYous tin can tell a good testify from a bad prove past the overall impressions from the attendees. Over the years there has been less and less in the manner of important trends and more and more in the mode of gimmicks and center-rollers. These are years when the best the media can do is extoll the "all-time" CES gadgets.

This means there was nada important. Information technology was mostly a few new products in known categories (laptops, VR headsets, game machines, drones, home automation) and a lot of junk that all-time classified as gadgets or gizmos. Here'southward the best of it. Look it over, and come across if yous can spot something of import.

Of class, this is CES, non the Consumer Trend Show, then what do you expect? I recall years agone the first flat panel large TV at a CES, along with follow-up screens including some monsters. The beginning 4K screens were there, too.

CES tracks TV technology meliorate than whatever show; it was used to promote the first HDTV sets, the first 3D TVs, and so 4K and at present 8K. There were many examples of OLED in advance of the sets now available. This year we got an LG Television receiver (OLED) that rolled up into tube and an impressive Samsung "Wall" screen consisting of individual LED pixels—kind of similar a smaller colossal-tron you'll find at football and baseball stadiums.

This jumbo set is patently non a mass-production item and was probably paw wired. Which is fine. The outset plasma screen shown at CES years ago was 42 inches and priced at well over $10,000, and was non readily available.

Some specialty websites did isolate some obscure and of import products for submarkets. Medgadget looked for new medical devices and found a few gems. The operative word is still "gadget."

The problem with CES is the relatively low number of things you lot must see. It tends to exist under a dozen, among thousands. Between journalists and writers, the chat is always the same: "What did y'all meet that was interesting?" There is typically merely one thing that everyone agrees is the most interesting. Everyone makes a beeline for these specific items. I'd guess the Samsung LED TV was one of these. You do this out of fright that later the evidence you will exist confronted by a friend who will ask if you saw the "matter." If you say no, then y'all are a loser. With fellow journos you'd get "How did you miss that? Were you even at the testify?"

Habitation listening device devices such as the Amazon Repeat sucked upward a lot of floor space. I still meet no reason to "automate" my home, and so I would have avoided that scene. The return of the robots was apparent including the Sony dog Aibo, smarter than ever. Information technology's hard to identify the killer bot of the show, but there had to be a must-see.

The tech printing definitely does a great job of scouring the event. PCMag is a skillful identify to showtime. But ultimately, CES is like a football game game: you are amend off watching it from home.

Well-nigh John C. Dvorak

Source: https://sea.pcmag.com/opinion/19153/my-professional-armchair-analysis-of-ces

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