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My Professional Armchair Analysis of CES

There was a lot to encounter at CES. I made a virtual visit past following the feeds and analysis of the news media, which over covers the show, thus making personal attendance redundant. I've been to far too many tech shows and my coverage is pretty much the same if I go or not. So here is my CES armchair coverage.

OpinionsY'all can tell a skilful evidence from a bad evidence past the overall impressions from the attendees. Over the years there has been less and less in the way of important trends and more and more in the way of gimmicks and eye-rollers. These are years when the all-time the media can do is extoll the "all-time" CES gadgets.

This means there was nothing important. Information technology was by and large a few new products in known categories (laptops, VR headsets, game machines, drones, home automation) and a lot of junk that best classified equally gadgets or gizmos. Hither'due south the best of it. Look it over, and see if you tin can spot something important.

Of grade, this is CES, non the Consumer Trend Bear witness, and so what do yous expect? I recall years ago the first apartment console large Boob tube at a CES, along with follow-up screens including some monsters. The start 4K screens were at that place, besides.

CES tracks Tv engineering science better than whatever show; it was used to promote the first HDTV sets, the first 3D TVs, and and then 4K and now 8K. There were many examples of OLED in advance of the sets now available. This year we got an LG Tv set up (OLED) that rolled upward into tube and an impressive Samsung "Wall" screen consisting of individual LED pixels—kind of similar a smaller jumbo-tron you'll find at football and baseball game stadiums.

This jumbo fix is apparently not a mass-product item and was probably hand wired. Which is fine. The first plasma screen shown at CES years ago was 42 inches and priced at well over $10,000, and was not readily available.

Some specialty websites did isolate some obscure and important products for submarkets. Medgadget looked for new medical devices and found a few gems. The operative discussion is nonetheless "gadget."

The problem with CES is the relatively low number of things you must run into. It tends to be under a dozen, amid thousands. Between journalists and writers, the conversation is always the same: "What did you see that was interesting?" There is typically just one thing that anybody agrees is the nearly interesting. Anybody makes a beeline for these specific items. I'd guess the Samsung LED Television set was one of these. You lot do this out of fearfulness that after the prove you will be confronted past a friend who will inquire if y'all saw the "thing." If yous say no, and then yous are a loser. With beau journos y'all'd get "How did you miss that? Were you even at the prove?"

Abode listening device devices such as the Amazon Repeat sucked up a lot of floor infinite. I withal see no reason to "automate" my habitation, so I would have avoided that scene. The return of the robots was apparent including the Sony canis familiaris Aibo, smarter than e'er. It'southward difficult to place the killer bot of the testify, but in that location had to be a must-see.

The tech press definitely does a dandy task of scouring the effect. PCMag is a good place to start. But ultimately, CES is like a football game: you are amend off watching it from home.

Almost John C. Dvorak

Source: https://sea.pcmag.com/opinion/19152/my-professional-armchair-analysis-of-ces

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