One thing that you'll learn at the Consumer Electronics Show is that your television sucks. No matter how great of a television you have, there's always one better here. We looked at all the new offerings on the floor to give you an idea of what you should be aiming for in your next gaming television.
These televisions are so new that pricing information is not yet available. You probably wouldn't want to know anyway.
The buzz on the CES show floor centers around this year's high resolution offerings, with many manufacturers showing "4K" models. With 4 thousand horizontal pixels, the picture quality on these sets will stop you in your tracks. Sony, Samsung, Hitachi, Sharp and LG all had 4K models for attendees to drool over. Samsung's offerings were particularly stunning.
Too bad all of these guys were topped by Sharp. They brought the world's first 8K television set, meaning that the display has 8 thousand horizontal pixels. The 85-inch set displayed images shot by an actual 8K camera, and it looked so lifelike that crowds would not stop watching. The resolution of 7,680 x 4,320 pixels makes for images that weigh in at 33 megapixels. The company says that the 8K image tech is still in the works, but we can expect their 4K sets to hit stores later this year.
Hate sharing the TV? Hitachi showed off a set that could display two programs at once. This extra-wide Dual Display had two sets of glasses available to look through. Looking through one, the set played a movie. The other had the set playing a videogame. With no glasses on the screen looked like a blurry mess.
Sony did their own thing (again) by debuting their Crystal LED sets. They showed off a new 55-inch TV that uses a new tech that combines millions of tiny LEDs that act as pixels, putting off 400 nits of brightness and putting it on par with OLED sets.
If you dig Microsoft's Kinect you'll probably be interested in this year's motion-sensing televisions. Both Samsung and LG showed off TVs that used some sort of motion for everything from navigation and channel changing to full-on games like Fruit Ninja. I saw a demonstration of a Samsung set that was able to surf the web by simply waving a hand.
One of the top showstoppers at CES was LG's 55-inch OLED display. The image quality of the 3D set is fantastic, but that's not what had crowds snapping pictures. After I cleared a path to snap my own shots, I saw that the set is only 4 millimeters thick, as it does not require side or back lamps. This big, beautiful TV only weighs about 17 pounds and has a contrast ratio of over 100,000,000 to 1.
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10:00 AM on 01.13.2012 | 
Take that, Nintendo Suckers. :D
Motion sensing TVs and 3DTVs were shown.
$8000 for an 8K TV? That would be a godsend. We'd be lucky if these 8K TVs go up to over 12K, considering how "futuristic" they are. Man, is my HDTV shit now. I mean, it was already shit just after a couple of months that I got it, but now, it seems like I have a TV from a decade ago.
As soon as a 8000p TV with glassesless 3D becomes affordable, I'll buy the shit out of it.
Most console games are 720p, they can't even take advantage of a current-gen HDTV. Current PCs easily handle 1080p, but that 8k resolution is roughly [i]16 times[/] as many pixels as 1080. I'm not even sure you could push that kind of resolution at a playable framerate with 3 or 4 high-end video cards, each with 2GB of RAM. And not all games would even run at that resolution, at least not without manually changing config files or otherwise hacking them.
And as far as video content, where do you find video over 1080p to watch on them? o_O
Actually the TV is priced more closely to $4000. Still a lot of money, but not as much as I expected.
But this TV is a bit different from other OLED displays. The pixels are composed of white OLEDs with a color-filter superimposed on it, as opposed to using RGB OLEDs. It's cheaper to produce, but I'm curious if the quality of RGB-OLED is even better, and by how much.
Shit moves too fast.
the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war has ended but dust is still settling. Now, Sony announces that their are pushing 4k televisions in the near future...
And Now.. 8k is the new standard? What ever happened to 4k? Or blu-ray?
Besides which, aren't they all technically obsolete thanks to this thing called streaming? (At least when internet infrastructure can handle it).
rather have something that will work for many years rather than new things that break easily.
So I'll be keeping my old (well, its only a year old) TV, thanks.
Besides, the current consoles can barely do 1080p. How many AAA titles are actually running at 600p or 640p? If PS4 and XB3 games are consistently at 1080p, that'll be a huge improvement as it is.
I also feel like we have to be nearing the point of diminishing returns when it comes to resolution and the average size screen that people can fit in their house. High pixel density is great on handheld displays but the further away you are, the less important it becomes.
FUCKING
SHIT
HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT
oh. my. God
I literally can not believe my eyes, this is literally making me feel dizzy, this is making me want to break out into a cold sweat
it'll probably be AT LEAST a decade before one of these things pop up in my home, I want to cry
AHHHHH..... smell that in the air....? What a great time to be a pc gamer!
4k res... no problem. 8k... would absolutely love it. Most would game in 4k windowed and have all other programs open around it and the rest of us high-end gamers would enjoy the full 8k res.
And before you bitches start whining that games won't even support it for along time... we're already gaming up to and over those resolutions using Eyefinity and Nvidia Surround.
So "EAT IT WHORE!" (who can name the movie that quote is from?)