2012 CES unveils thinner TVs, Kinect for PCs
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Media Day at the Consumer Electronic Show, also known as press conference day and the unofficial beginning of the trip towards obsolescence for many high-tech devices, including ones you may have received over the holidays, has come and gone.
The show highlights everything from appliances to sleek high definition televisions.
For several years, organic light emitting diode or OLED technology has been announced as the next big advance for HDTVs.
The technology allows televisions to be extremely thin, sharp and watchable from virtually any angle. Due to manufacturing limitations, OLED televisions only came in small sizes, less than about 30 inches.
At the show, Samsung and LG announced those limitations are resolved. They will both be unveiling 55-inch OLED televisions this year.
“At just four millimeters thin and just seven-and-a-half kilograms in weight, the beauty of this television isn't just its appearance, the picture quality is superb,” LG Electronics spokesperson Scott Ahn said. “We're also seeing even higher definition with so-called 4K televisions [and] glasses. Free 3D is getting closer to store shelves and television sets that respond to gestures and your voice [are as well].”
There’s a lot of new television technology, but without question one of the biggest headlines from CES 2012 will end up being news that broke before the conference even began.
Microsoft, a longtime anchor of the show, announced 2012 will be its last CES.
In the company's final, traditional Media Day keynote, it announced how its Kinect motion sensing remote for the XBox 360 is coming to PCs.
“We're already working with more than 200 companies on unique Kinect for Windows applications. The breadth of what they're doing is mind-blowing,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said.
Incidentally, Microsoft said the reason for ending its run with CES is that the show doesn't time well with its big product launches.
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