A 790-inch 16K HDTV with a price tag over 5 million bucks. Not just epic clickbait, this is an actual product from Sony. The brand’s Crystal LED technology has been scaled up to offer a home viewing experience like you read about on product websites: extraordinary clarity, sumptuous color and an unprecedented 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio for immersive realism beyond all you imagined.
LG’s absolutely massive SIGNATURE Z9 88-inch 8K OLED TV is the future of television technology & it’s available now if you have the cash. The wall-size display delivers stunning image quality, with 4X more pixels than a 4K display. It also features support for HDMI 2.1 Apple AirPlay 2, & HomeKit. Google Assistant & Amazon Alexa will be built-in for select markets.
Despite the perfect picture, most OLED TVs deliver lackluster audio. A new company called Canvas aims to fix this with their new 3-D hi-fi audio system. Like an oversized sound bar, the Canvas acts as a stand for your flat panel LG OLED TV and features a 4-channel HiFi-grade amplifier with 200W output plus it boasts 30 liters of acoustic volume, much more than other soundbar + subwoofer systems. Available for pre-order now.
In the race for the ultimate gaming display, Alienware’s 55 OLED Gaming Monitor has just pulled away from the pack. It’s a 55-inch OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate plus support for Radeon’s FreeSync technology resulting in smoother, stutter-free gaming. Port array includes a single DisplayPort 1.2, three HDMI 2.0 ports, four USB, 1 headphone, and a SPDIF audio line-out. Available 9/30.
With the ability to create a 90-inch 4K projection from just two inches away—or up to a 120-inch image at 7.2 inches away—the HU85LA short throw laser projector is everything you’d want in a powerful, high-end projector. 2,500 lumens of brightness, the clarity of 4K UHD resolution, and voice control support for both Google Assistant and LG’s ThinQ. Choose USB, ethernet, and HDMI ports for connectivity & watch whatever you want.
The Prima Projector is about the size of an iPhone and projects a display up to 200-inches. It gives you 1080p HD video, Hi-Fi speakers, WiFi and Bluetooth, Netflix and Google Play, and much more. With universal compatibility, instant screen mirroring, and seamless casting, you can create a cinematic experience anytime, anywhere.
A luminosity rating of 4,500 nits allows you to watch “the world’s largest outdoor TV” in direct sunlight. The latest creation from tech/luxury lab C Seed is this 301-inch 4k UHD TV made of carbon fiber & titanium that has a built-in 2700-watt sound system & raises up out of the ground via remote. 48-bit color depth supports 281 trillion colors. After the 40-second mechanical unfurling of the fold-up 7-panel screen, your guests won’t even care what you want them to watch. Price tag is equally impressive.
Samsung’s aptly named, The Wall Luxury TV, is literally going to take up a whole wall. It’s a massive 292-inches from corner to corner; an 8K MicroLED TV, which is a new display technology that uses individual LEDs to create a picture, resulting in the blackest blacks, and a brightness peak at 2000 units. So far Samsung has not released pricing or full specs for this new monster.
It’s no wonder the VAVA 4K Short-Throw Laser Projector crowdfunded so fast. This sleek little device gives you a stunning 4K image up to 150″. That’s a huge UHD 4K image projected from just 7.2 inches away. The powerful 6000-lumen projector utilizes HDR 10 & ALPD 3.0 to create cinema-quality 3000:1 contrast visuals & features Harmon Kardon audio with dts-HD & Dolby Audio. Another funded Indiegogo.
While the world waits patiently for the mass proliferation of 4K content, Sony appears way, way ahead of the game with the release of its new flagship TV, the Master Series Z9G. This 98-inch behemoth boasts 8K HDR capabilities powered by Sony’s own X1 Ultimate processor. Yeah, 8K. Other premium tech includes DolbyVision and Atmos as well as an Acoustic Multi-Audio system with front-facing, BRAVIA-compatible speakers.
Bang and Olufsen’s Beovision Harmony TV is the brand’s latest 77-inch LG-powered OLED flatscreen and although it’s not a true roll-up TV, it does rise-up, unfold and deploy like a Lambo with butterfly doors. The folding electronic panels are a pair of BeoSound speakers that deliver three-channel audio or can be linked with a surround sound system to create up to 7.1 surround sound. Available October 2019.
You knew it was coming, you just didn’t know when. 8K TV is here. Released this week at CES in Vegas, Sony’s Master Series Z9G 8K LCD TVs might just steal the show. They’re available in 85-inch, and 98-inch sizes and optimized for 8K content, and both feature the brand’s proprietary Picture Processor X1 Ultimate image processor, and X-Reality PRO technology; which makes content of all kinds look sharper and more realistic than you ever imagined. Available soon.
LG is dropping lots of fresh tech this week at CES in Las Vegas. The LG Signature OLED TV R is the world’s first rollable OLED TV. Utilizing LG’s second generation Alpha 9 intelligent processor, it delivers industry-leading color, contrast, depth and realism, as well as support for Amazon Alexa and Apple’s AirPlay2. It offers 3 viewing modes & when not in use, the 65-inch screen rolls down & hides away, eliminating the big black rectangle taking up space in your living room.
The Elgato Cam Link 4K easily connects to your DSLR, camcorder, action cam, PC or Mac—basically any HDMI device and turns it into a webcam, allowing you to go live on any platform in no time, thanks to ultra-low-latency technology. You’ll be able to broadcast in stunning quality up to 1080P or 4K at 30 FPS, shoot and produce within your favorite tools & record directly to your hard drive without time restrictions.
Google gave their little Chromecast streaming device a makeover—mainly an aesthetic one. With a price unchanged since its debut in 2015, it (still) streams in 1080p using 5GHz wi-fi and uses your phone for the remote. This update gave it a matte finish case in the original form factor. Given Roku & Amazon’s latest streaming stick offerings, a 4K Chromecast seems like the next likely upgrade.
Amazon’s all new & quite small Fire TV Stick 4K is the brand’s most powerful streaming stick to date. 80% more powerful than the last model, it features a new quad-core processor & wi-fi enabling flawless streaming of UHD & HDR content. It also comes with an Alexa-enabled remote for voice-controlled convenience.
The Caavo Control Center is a slick little device that allows you to combine your sound system and TV for the ultimate home viewing & listening experience, all in one device. It manages your entire entertainment experience: cable/satellite, streaming media players, and gaming consoles. Just connect everything to Control Center and hook it up to your TV and sound system. It supports 4K UHD, HDR and Dolby Atmos so you can enjoy the most realistic picture quality and incredible surround sound. It comes bundled with a universal remote as well.
Roku is killing it with their tiny, portable streaming sticks. And with their two new 4k HDR players, the Premier & Premiere+, they’re bringing prices down even further. The Premiere+ includes a voice remote, while the Premiere has a standard infrared remote. Both feature a very capable quad core processor. At $40 & $50 respectively, you really have no reason not to cut the cord.
With both LCD & OLED models, Sony’s Master Series 4K HD TVs, according to the brand, “provide image quality approaching that of a professional monitor in a production studio” for your home viewing pleasure. There are two new models: the A9F (OLED) and the Z9F (LED), which includes the X1 Ultimate picture processor, the most powerful chip Sony has put in a TV yet. Sony has also worked with Netflix to develop Netflix Calibrated Mode to reproduce the same picture quality as a studio evaluation master. Both will be available this fall.
The Kodak Wireless WiFi Portable Projector is a tiny box that makes a big screen up to 100-inches. It’s a DLP Pico LED 1080p HD mini projector that supports Android Miracast, iOS Apple Airplay, plus smartphones and other content delivery devices like gaming consoles, and computers, all via cable-free wifi. It’s rechargeable, has built-in speakers, as well as ports for HDMI and Micro SD card.
