We've finally got shipping dates and prices for Sony's surprisingly affordable 4K TVs in the UK. The Bravia X9 is now up for pre-order starting at a wallet-crushing, but-slightly-less-than-a-car, £4,000 for the 55-incher, with its bigger 65-inch brother setting you back a £6,000. Considering that's basically what a top-end HDTV cost up until about 4 years ago, that's practically reasonable. Both ship mid-June if you've got the collateral. Read More >>
Featured comment by flynndean:
"It's all massively old though...I spend loads being an early adopter...but then make sure I get mileage out of everything.
I wouldn't imagine I spe..." More »
The Chief Content Officer of streaming giant Netflix claims the modern trend for easily streaming legal content is impacting on the more hardcore Bittorrent scene, with pirate traffic dropping in countries when Netflix switches on its servers. According to Netflix's Ted Sarandos, this is because "...people are mostly honest." Read More >>
The £25,000 price tag attached to Sony's 84-inch UltraHD set — the one that's been haunting your dreams since CES — may put that super-sized set out of your financial reach but that doesn't mean everything 4K is prohibitively expensive. In fact, Sony's new 55- and 65-inch sets are downright inexpensive (by comparison) and will be available for pre-order by the end of the month. Read More >>
Featured comment by TankBoyBen:
"did you see it at the gadget show too? all 4 of us from work were stood centimeters away marveling at how sharp it was even that close, stunning bit o..." More »
Featured comment by bryan443364:
"I've just checked Sony's UK site and their 84" TV is £25,000 but sadly that does not make the Samsung any more affordable for me." More »
Sharp is showing off its Igzo 4K monitor at CES, but so what—everyone's showing off a 4K something or other. Except Sharp's actually getting ready to sell these things. Read More >>
Featured comment by markcgrant:
"1080p on a 32" TV in a standard living room is pointless, I only realised how much so once I jumped to a bigger screen - now when I switch between HD ..." More »
The pixels on Panasonic's new 20-inch 4K tablet are so itty bitty that I couldn't even see them when I pressed my eye almost to the tablet's touch screen. The viewing angles for the tablet were excellent. But they're going to have to up the power of this baby's guts if you really want to take advantage of its potential. Read More >>
Featured comment by lancsDavid:
"Feng Zhu, a concept artist who does most of his work with photoshop (& who has a bunch of tutorials on youtube) reckons photoshop eats RAM when u'..." More »
At a small press event at CES today, Raj Talluri, Qualcomm's VP of Product Management dropped this little nugget. "You are just starting to see 1080p display phones. I think that will go even higher." My brain instantly exploded. Read More >>
Featured comment by Mil:
"Even 440ppi is way overkill. 300ppi is probably about the maximum PPI I can actually notice. The more pixels on screen, the more power needed to push ..." More »
We've seen like a hundred (not really but it seems like it) 4K TVs at CES so far, but there are ultra high-def tablets, too. Panasonic just whipped one of these pixel-packed device at its keynote. And it's enormous. Read More >>
Featured comment by scarrabb:
"Why is not being able to carry it even mentioned?
This is obviously a desktop tablet. Complaining it's not very portable is like complaining you can..." More »
Ultra HD is marketing-speak for 4K or 8K resolution TVs. And that's more or less it. You're going to be hearing the term a lot this show though — and throughout the year — so here's a little more information about what exactly that means. Read More >>
Sony has two new Ultra HD TVs with the same technology of its monster 84-inch 4K LED model. At 65 and 55 inches, Sony CEO's Kaz Hirai said these are going to be their "affordable" 4K TVs. How much affordable is affordable we don't know yet. No price has been announced. The only thing I know is that they look and sound amazing. Read More >>
Boom, here we are, the year of 4K. How high? Ultra high. Samsung's promising big things including "expanded" UHDs over 60-inches. But the grandaddy is Samsung's S9 UHD TV, a 110-inch 4K commercial panel, which is the largest ultra-high TV ever. Official details are slim, but when we get more information, we'll update. [Businesswire] Read More >>
LG's beaten its arch rival Samsung to the OLED-punch, with its brand new 55-inch 4K beauty. Finally, you can buy an OLED TV in a meaningful size (at least in South Korea), and make sure it's not junk in five years, because everyone keeps their TVs for more than five years right? Especially when you've got well over £10,000 to drop on a TV. Read More >>
Featured comment by Pleasethink:
"55inch and at about 10 feet sounds about right. I do have very good sight which may make a difference but my girlfriend who wheres contacts also notic..." More »
Yes, that's right, buy yourself one of those beastly Sony 4K sets for the best part of £25k and you'll get access to exclusive, free 4K content direct from Sony through the 'world's first Ultra HD delivery solution'. Sounds like a veritable bargain to me, well, compared to that £600,000 152-incher anyway. [Sony via TechRadar] Read More >>
OK, so you've just won the lottery. You've already bought yourself a £5 million pound mansion, plus a Bugatti Veyron to fill that garage, but what do you buy next? A colossal £600,000 152-inch ultra HD (4K) plasma TV for your massive living room wall, of course. Read More >>
Featured comment by Pleasethink:
"I was in tokyo last week and got to see a 4K tv and I can honestly say this is not true. 4K is considerably better than 1080p even on a 55 inch scree..." More »
Today Ortus Technology, a Japanese manufacturer of industrial flat panel displays, announced a new 9.6-inch TFT boasting a whopping resolution of 3840x2160. For those keeping score, that happens to be the newly appointed 4K UHD standard, and the same as Sony's £15,500 84-inch behemoth. Read More >>
Featured comment by mikeo:
"That looks like a professional monitor to me, as used on sets and locations. Not for consumer use. It would be good (and a first) to be able to review..." More »