How to revolutionize television? Big question from the manufacturers that every year try to offer new, more advanced models. And the tech-heavy CES in Las Vegas is usually a good way to show off the color of the coming years.
Samsung, LG, TCL, Panasonic… after a 2022 edition marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, the big names returned with some products to make your eyes shine.
The image, above all: always more brightness, always more contrast. Samsung has presented its new QD-OLED models, a technology that appeared last year and that brings impressive results.
But the champion is still LG Display and its formidable precision Oled META panel. Let’s be clear: the prices shown are sometimes several tens of thousands of euros for a television. Samsung thus offers a 140-inch screen at 140,000 euros… Totally inaccessible prices but which will obviously melt in the coming years.
The other trajectory of the televisions of tomorrow is the thinness of the screen. The cathode is now very far away and the screens, no matter how wide they are, are getting thinner.
And to achieve this, manufacturers are now looking to get rid of the connectors installed behind the screen to reduce the thickness of the television but also to do away with unsightly cables.
This is what LG offers with its Signature OLED M3, a 4k screen that has the particularity of not showing any cables. The trick is to have a remote box, pretty robust anyway, into which you plug as many devices (box, console, etc.) as you want. The box then transmits the information remotely to the screen.
Anyway, there remains the power cable that the LG cannot do without but that is hidden in the foot of the television to make it as transparent as possible. The brand did not reveal many details about its operation, the risk of latency or network congestion, but it already gives an idea of the television of tomorrow. Available for sale at the end of the year, the price seems stratospheric: several tens of thousands of euros.
A battery-powered TV
The other little revolution at CES is a TV still without connectors, even without a power supply! The Displace TV, the brainchild of an American startup, simply runs on batteries.
This 4K OLED television is capable, according to the manufacturer, of operating for a month, at a rate of 6 hours of television per day, before having to recharge the batteries. Similarly, it can (in theory) be fixed to any wall or window thanks to an active suction system.
But then what’s the point of having a wireless TV? A little heavy (12 kg), we imagine it perhaps as a nomadic television that we take on vacation or simply in our garden. But it is probably in the events where it will find its usefulness. Sold for 3,000 euros each to a hundred buyers at the end of the year, it is not intended to be marketed to the general public.
Source: BFM TV
