To learn about the future of VR, I met in VR. Qualcomm invited me to a briefing inside Spatial’s app on an Oculus Quest, where a virtual Hugo Swart (head of mixed reality tech for Qualcomm) floated, ready to show us slides and talk about where VR was heading. Midway through, Swart vanished into a …
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Liquid crystal displays, aka LCDs, are old. Really old. It’s been 20 years since the technology’s arrival on the TV scene, a period long enough to see the demise of CRT, plasma and rear projection. LCD is still dominating the TV market against the remaining large-screen display tech, OLED. Compared to those other technologies the main advantage for LCD is that …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Wednesday, Jan. 8 was the second day that the floor show was open at CES 2020— and that meant another day of morning-to-evening programming at the CNET Stage at Tech West in the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas. Read more: …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. TV shows and movies in 4K HDR offer the best home video quality available today, but in some situations it can look too dark. That’s because they’re often created to be shown in a dark, theatrical environment, and when the lights …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Modern TVs have at least one mode that’s designed to extract the best picture quality from the screen, but finding it isn’t always easy. They’re all called different things — Movie, Cinema, Custom, ISF Expert — and to find them you’ll …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. CES is where the technology year kicks off: It’s a gigantic trade show (more than 170,000 attendees are expected) where the biggest names in consumer electronics converge on Las Vegas to show off the tech that will dominate our lives in …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Chinese TV manufacturer Konka will join LG, Sony and maybe more TV makers soon in selling OLED TVs to US customers. The new 4K OLED TV, the X11 Series, will be available in 55- and 65-inch sizes this spring. TV that use OLED, …
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If you’ve been wishing you had a higher-quality camera, now is the perfect time to make it happen. Cyber Monday may be over, but we’re still seeing hundreds of dollars off camera prices. So get into the spirit of the season with a brand-new camera to help capture all those special holiday moments. Whether you’re looking for a mirrorless camera option, …
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The iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro come with awesome cameras on the back, and their pictures have already impressed us in our camera tests in San Francisco and Scotland. I’ve even gone so far as to call the iPhone 11 Pro a DSLR replacement in some shots. But what about for video? To find out if it can hold …
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All modern televisions use one of two basic display technologies: LCD and OLED. The vast majority are LCD, and only some more recent TVs from LG and Sony are OLED. While LCD may be the norm, OLED TVs offer better picture quality overall, though at a higher price. You may have heard OLED discussed when it comes to mobile phone …
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