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attempt to reduce the story of televisions at CES 2024 is a fool ’s errand . There are too many , with too many purposes . Some of the sickest tech you ’ll see is n’t even meant for consumer use . Some will be well out of your price reach . All of it was incredible .

And that just about add it up .

OK , that mostly sums it up . But given that literally everyone at CES is call for “ AI ” in one mode or another , it ’s worth a reference here . Everyone ’s using AI somehow . You ’ll mostly hear it in the context of moving-picture show processing , and that ’s not nothing . Nor is it exactly fresh . But AI is all the bombination these day , even if it ’s chop-chop just becoming how affair work . AI processing has found a place alongside traditional graphics and computational processing . At some point , though , it ’ll just evanesce into the background signal and is n’t really something you need to think about as the mortal sitting in front of the TV .

We ’re go to barely scratch the surface here — and definitely ascertain out ourTop Tech of CES 2024for additional perspective — but here ’s everything you need to bang about the nation of future televisions , as seen at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas .

LG goes see-through

We ’re hard - pressed to say that a exclusive company stole the show in terms of televisions . But pull us to do so , and LG utterly is in the runningthanks to the 77 - in LG Signature OLED T. That “ T ” stands for transparent .

As we ’ll babble out about a little more in a minute of arc , transparent display are n’t anything fresh . They go back days , in reality . But this one ’s a big softwood for a brace reason . First is that it ’s a guileless OLED . And that mean it ’s adding transparence to the best panel technical school . But even more crucial is that the Signature OLED T is a lucid television that you ’re really going to be able-bodied to purchase by and by this year . It ’s not theoretic technology being shown for the sake of presentment . You ’ll be able to put this in your home .

That ’s assuming a couple things . First , of course , is price . LG would n’t ( and in all equity , probable could n’t ) secernate us how much it ’s going to be . fortune are it ’s going to be a lot . At a guess ? Maybe $ 20,000 . potential $ 30,000 . That ’s a total guess , though . But I would n’t bet against it .

And assuming that you may even afford this sort of tech , you ’re move to want to put it in a home people can see it , in a direction that everyone can enjoy it . It ’s going to be a definite conversation starter , and not just the sort of thing you slap up on a wall to let it do its thing . And to be clear-cut , whatever is behind it — be it wall , or panoramic sentiment from whatever penthouse you put it in — will be very much a part of the picture show , too . Your basic eighties dry wall build is n’t going to do it justice .

LG also had update translation of its traditional organic light-emitting diode models . Those are the ones for most family line out there . The story there is mostly iterative . Better specs , with that story mostly surrounding LG ’s Alpha line of processor . They ’re better . quicker . Deeper . All the adjectives . The bottom line ? The LG M and G serial will rest splendid options well into 2025 .

And lest we forget about the sort of future tech we ’re really here for , LG Display ( the society that actually makes the panels ) broke out somehuge news with 3,000 - nit “ META 2.0 ” displays , bringing a raw era of cleverness to OLED . It ’s a flock to lay eyes on .

Samsung cuts down the glare

Samsung is the other Korean producer that does so much it ’s easy to get lost in the shuffle . Andit had a ton to show this year . But perhaps the most important demonstration we see was the one that cuts down on the glare that ’s long been inherent in OLED goggle box .

If you have an OLED screen today , you ’re likely well aware of just how easy it is to spoil an otherwise excellent experience with a single light on in the background signal somewhere . And while this is the sort of thing that ’s very dependent on your frame-up , and that a control demonstration may handle better than we ’ll see in real life , that demo worked well enough . On one side there was an aged OLED telecasting , with the glare from a phony windowpane front and center . Next to it was a new panel with the glare all but locomote .

That ’s maybe not a understanding to throw out your former Samsung OLED , but it ’s definitely something you ’ll need to search for in your next one .

Samsung also wasshowing off some see - through tech at CES . It ’s not a made - for - consumers affair yet like what LG had on manus , but Samsung ’s vapourous micro - LED panels were very coolheaded . It ’s the sort of thing that still pictures ca n’t really do justice — you lose a bit of the depth effect . But in soul , it ’s very nerveless . And what we saw is very much the sort of affair you could see in some sort of business or informational scope — mayhap in a museum ? Or all over Las Vegas , now that I recollect about it .

Samsung had the transparent micro - LED screens alongside sheer OLED and LCD displays , so it was interesting to see the different flavors of the technical school , and how they work .

TCL goes big — 115 inches big

Size matters . Especially in Las Vegas . And TCL bring in a monster of a QM8 televisionin the form of a 115 - column inch behemoth it ’s calling the QM89 .

It ’s ginormous , with some 20,000 dimming zone hold the miniskirt - LED backlighting of the 4 K exposure . It ’s stunning with demonstration content on it . You have to enquire just how well it ’ll plow the seriously constrict video that plagues cyclosis — particularly when it comes to survive , one-dimensional video . But there ’s no deny that it ’s a sight to see .

There are still spate of questions here . For one , TCL has n’t yet settled on the feet that ’ll stand this beast up from the floor . And another is Leontyne Price . TCL ’s current 98 - in QM8 costs $ 6,000 at retail . How much more will this TV fetch ? Do n’t be surprised to see it closer to $ 10,000 . ( That ’s totally a supposition at this point , though . )

Hisense also does big and bright

reckon , word like “ big ” and “ vivid ” just describe the meat and potatoes of CES . Everything there is openhanded and bright .

But consider the pursuit : 110 inches and 10,000 nit . That’swhat Hisense had on handwith its aptly named 110UX , a quantum dot - power , mini - LED 4 K TV .

That was just the biggest and burnished drop curtain in the bucket , though . The likes of the 98UX ( 98 inches , naturally ) also should raise to be pretty pop this twelvemonth , especially when you take the sound recording features into write up .

The QDEL exclusive

If you ’ve somehow not seen all our unbelievable video coverage of the televisions of CES , it ’s far past time to channelize over to our YouTube channel . specially sincewe had a late - breaking discoverydeep in the gut of the show .

Meet QDEL . Yes , it ’s another TV tech acronym along the lines of QLED and OLED and QNED and QSED . ( I made up one of those just now . You adjudicate which . ) It stands for quantum dot electroluminescent display .

This is all in paradigm form at the moment . But it ’s a big deal because it ’s much easier to manufacture than traditional OLED display . ( And that should , hopefully , mean it ’s less expensive for the consumer . ) And it ’s a big deal because … well , we ’ll just let Caleb explain in the video below .

A first look at Telly

One of the … weirder … stories of 2023 was Telly . The company is led by the founder of Pluto TV and came out of a two - year stealth period . And it did so with the promise of a 55 - inch television with a built - in soundbar that it ’s give away for free .

Of naturally there ’s a gimmick , and that comes in the build of a petty display that is nursing home to some fairly consistent display advertising . You get a free goggle box , and Telly sells ads to your eyeballs ( in addition to getting all kinds of data about what you ’re watch ) .

I was as skeptical as anyone around here about how any of this would in reality function . But after sitting down with Telly in a Las Vegas hotel suite for a one-half hour?I was surprisingly impressed . That ’s not to say I ’m not still sceptical — I very much am , and this idiot box definitely is n’t going to be for everyone .

But the execution of Telly as a machine ? Far better than I require .

Sony silent once more

If you ’ve interpret this far and were question just where was Sony during CES , well , we tried to warn you . For the 2d year in a row , Sony did n’t have anything Modern to show in Las Vegas .

That does n’t think Sony is pass to sit around out 2024 . Quite the contrary , in fact . We ’re just going to have to wait a little longer .