Ces'17

D

DLD

Major Contributor
So, it's this time of the year - eggnog, Hanukkah gelt and the wait for the CES.

Various press releases are coming out fast and furiously.

From what I have been able to gather so far -

Samsung is expected to reveal a 1,500 nits TV based on some sort of a new technology that will not be called SUHD anymore.

There'll be a bunch of 3D NAND SSD's, some cheaper, some bigger and some faster than others. The major fabs, however, are still switching from the 2D/Flash based lines and, at this moment, the demand is outstripping the supplies and thus the prices are slightly up from where they were recently.

LG is introducing a laser based 2,500 nits (or was it lux?) projector, which will enable viewing in a bright room. Not all specs are out but it's supposedly only 2K because Texas Instrument has delayed their 4K DLP chips. Laser based projectors are what's hot in the latest movie theater hardware, so it's interesting to see it being introduced in the consumer sector already.

There is also a bunch of e-cars - as in automotive - presentations, which should play well with the advancements in battery developments and production.

And I'll try to keep up with the headlines, as they come out.
 
Lasers on the consumer front have actually been around for a while. Before Mitsubishi stopped making RPTV's(they were the last to stop, btw), they had some RPTV sets that were laser. I'm trying to remember if they had a laser projector, but it's too late and I'm too lazy to look it up.

Now what I'd REALLY like to see is LG put out a 100" OLED for $5,000 or less so I can replace the 92" Mitsubishi DLP RPTV in my den. And rumor has it that Sony is finally going to step into OLED on the consumer side, now.
 
Run&Gun said:
Lasers on the consumer front have actually been around for a while. Before Mitsubishi stopped making RPTV's(they were the last to stop, btw), they had some RPTV sets that were laser. I'm trying to remember if they had a laser projector, but it's too late and I'm too lazy to look it up...
Click to expand...
Yes, it was called LaserVue. Priced, back in 2007-08, on par with the latest in plasma. It never took off and Mitsubishi exited the business.

I don't think they had a front projector though.

At the last CES, Hisense has announced but has not shipped yet a short-throw projector. I guess it's expected to go out by March or so.

http://www.whathifi.com/news/hisense-4k-projector-delivers-100in-image-50cm
 
Some more pondering about new products, though many have been teased before -

Samsung foldable displays, Sony's OLED TV (likely to be an LG derived), a new "slightly more affordable but still high end" nVidia video card, a bunch of new phones with no specs given, some "augmented reality" products, new super fast SSD's, the aforementioned Samsung's QLED TV line, the aforementioned LS ProBeam laser projector, next steps for 5G wireless, etc.

Aside new smartphones, there doesn't seem to be much news for the image acquisition, even on the consumer level. Or maybe, entry level camcorders aren't as exciting as they once were.
 
News from the computer people is that the new AMD Ryzen processor is roughly on par - but can also outperform for the first time in a decade! - the latest Intel Kaby Lake 7-series. Both are 8-core, 16-threads. Ryzen registers at 3.4 GHz but not sure if it can be overclocked. The catch here is that the top of the line 7-series runs over a grand while Ryzen is about half that.

Both should be shown at the CES (probably in the newest laptops/PC's).
 
I'd love to have AMD back in the high-performance game, but I find it hard to believe, after so many years of continuous letdowns.

(goes on to investigate a bit and comes back)

OK, so it seems AMD really has a winner in their hands this time. They've done three demonstrations of their new Ryzen star (8 cores, 16 threads, 3.4GHz+, big cache) against intel i7 6900K processors (8 cores, 16 threads, 3.2GHz, big cache). The AMD chip performed 2% better than the intel one on Blender (link), matched it on handbrake while consuming roughly the same power (link), and provided similar fps running Battlefield at 4k (same link as previous).

I'm on a 3-years old workstation right now (with recent updates on GPU and SSD), so I could use some healthy competition in the near future :)
 
Last edited:
This is not really news (really) but, around August, AMD switched from the 28 nM technology on their Radeon video cards to 14 nM while nVidia switched to the 16 nM. Tomhardware wrote in November that the early production cards carried a substantial premium but both prices and supplies should be settling toward 2017. nVidia usually does a big time presentation at the CES and it's no exception this time.
 
Yi (got to be kidding me) is readying a 4K action cam. Me remains of little faith that it will take over the world, as their MFT model has not been well received.

Big news from Qualcomm - a new Snapdragon 835 that is (supposedly, as QC has provided no specs so far) based on the 10 nM technology. The next generation of 4K cameras may not serve as a waffle maker after all.
 
There's not much info on the actual 8K TV's yet - several have been demoed in various conventions around the world, including a $133,000 85" Sharp - but I just saw a YouTube clip made on Red Weapon with an option for 4,320 (8K) streaming. With 4K (and now HDR) being made available en masse at the consumer level, 8K seems like a next pro frontier.
 
Shenan said:
Wait, Yi has had a 4k action cam for a good while now, and it's supposed to be pretty good (decent?): https://www.amazon.com/YI-Action-Camera-Night-Black/dp/B01FU9ZIMU

Is this a new model that they're going to be releasing at CES?
Click to expand...

It's an updated version. Plus they're also releasing a drone to go along with it.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/71937...fiber-drone-announced-ahead-of-ces-2017-debut

PS. Fine. No more puns until the NYi Yiear.

PPS. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 still has no specs out but it is confirmed as a 10 nM chip. Made by Samsung, of all places.
 
NorBro said:
Someone has to be buying these cameras because they keep making/updating them.
Click to expand...

Nice'n'easy Vlogging/YouTube'ing. The outgoing (one thinks) Vixia R600 and R700 had a mic input, which made them just about the most affordable Vlog type camera outside of the web cams. One could also add a wide angle lens for about $20.

More CES news -- new Panasonic UHD Blu-Ray players will have a "Direct Chroma Upscaling" chip, which produces a faux 12-bit image from the disc's 10-bit. (and, if it can be done on a sub-$500 player, one assumes it can be done on a $2,000 camera, right?)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarc...rdable-ultra-hd-blu-ray-players/#21af57bc429f
 
Since we talked about it here before... Warmup for the new AMD processors: Intel just launched Kaby Lake, and there are already nice reviews of the i5 7600K and i7 7700K. Summary: just like the previous generation, but new (ok, they're slightly better, but the difference is very, very small).
The new AMD Ryzen should beat these 4-core processors at well parallelized tasks (the top performer on those charts is the 6-core i7 6800K).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top