LG, 3D-ready TVs and Other CE Goodies

We couldn't resist stopping past LG's booth which felt very welcoming with a huge assortment of flat panels aligned for your viewing pleasure, perhaps only 2nd in magnificence to Samsung's gallery of screens. Large screen applied science at its very best, that'due south what you lot got by visiting this booth. Check some of the pictures beneath:

84" Ultra High Definition Display
H2o-resistant OLED displays & 120" Multi-vision Plasma
Full LED Ultra Slim TV (6.9mm)
RGB LED Graphic Monitor (LG W2420R) and the wide viewing angle 22-inch Flatron W2220P (IPS panel)

On the calculating side, LG was showing a small group of netbooks, all of which we were told will only be sold in Asian markets except for the readily bachelor LG X120 which sells through Dart when coupled with a 3G data programme.

There was also a very interesting showcase of LG's Network Monitor running 31 users out of a single PC. Nosotros later found this is not an entirely homegrown solution but information technology works in combination with NComputing's virtual desktop technology. Nonetheless the idea works out great by coupling the virtualization software's capabilities with monitors built to be friendly solutions for this specific purpose.

3D-ready TVs and Samsung showcase

If you think tablets or multi-touch displays were booming and overrated, yous should take seen 3D TVs flooding the CES showfloor. This yr's show fix the stage for 3D TVs to explode with all major manufacturers touting the technology equally the greatest thing since sliced staff of life.

I'm not as skeptical of their commercial success equally I am nigh the applied science itself. All implementations require glasses which is far from ideal, the effects created are usually underwhelming except for the odd object thrown directly at you lot (retrieve dirt or h2o particles in a high speed auto hunt), non to mention tin crusade headaches.

I would say it'southward not the same playing a first person shooter or driving simulation game than watching a Blu-ray movie with the glasses, with the kickoff scenario scoring more than favorably in my book. Besides believe it or not, this 3d engineering implementation is a mere improvement from the 1 we reviewed equally far back equally 2002.

Samsung was the but major manufacturer showing a 3D display that didn't require glasses, withal this was only a applied science showcase somewhen intended for commercial use in advertising. This TV showed lower resolution images and thus was not in the same league equally other TVs which will be selling to the public immediately.

Too at the Samsung booth we saw sparse-bezel monitor sets that were promoted for PC gaming in conjunction with AMD'south Eyefinity. Sold in sets of three or six monitors for $1899 and $3099, respectively, you may hate me for proverb this but the price doesn't sound likewise outrageous because what we used to pay for a single big screen monitor a few years ago. I just wished those bezels were even thinner, but I guess we are getting there.

Vuzix

For quite some time I had seen these Vuzix glasses being advertised but depending on who you lot asked it wasn't uncommon to hear they were all merely vaporware. To my surprise, I stumbled upon their booth early on the week. I checked out their latest eyewear, the Wrap 920, which claims to give y'all the viewing experience of a virtual 67-inch screen.

The good news, they were hooked up to an iPod Nano for video output, making for the ultimate portable experience (glasses + ipod). The bad news, the spectacles were uncomfortable to watch into and the "little screens" inside the glasses didn't live up to the 67-inch claim, not even shut.