All your audio, video kit is about to become OBSOLETE
Although much of the audio and video technology packed into CES 2013's 1.9 million square feet of exhibition space is indeed impressive, one panelist at an emerging-technology conference session channeled a little 1974 BTO, essentially telling his audience that "You ain't seen nothin' yet." Rich Doherty, research director of The …
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Future???
Honestly, I just hope they do increase the quality of music. I love it. Also I would really have expected flying vehicles by now.... And I really do want True Time Motion Tracking glasses to replace displays for games now. I was really hoping for that. I already see an issue with the "Adaptive" audio concept, What baseline would be used to alter the audio perception? As you already said, every one hears different. Now if your playing back an orchestra, and the "adaptive" listening changes the sound to "Who"s hearing Baseline? Someone elses? I think things will sound really weird if we are suddenly made to change how things sound to mach something else, when we have grown up hearing everything with our natural hearing.
I also think we will manage go get to a level with video, in which we could do better than our natural eyesight would perceive, however would there be any point of doing so?
Small speakers with decent bass
I'll believe it when I see^H^H^Hhear it.
Re: Small speakers with decent bass
I havn't seen many speakers released in the last 20 years that come close to what was considered mainstream in the 70s/80s ( speaker cab a foot wide, 2 foot high, 1 x 6.5 inch bass and 1 x 2 inch tweeter). The ridiculous trend towards 'bookshelf' speakers and those tall skinny £600/pair poser devices with 5 small s41t speakers is mad. Then of course everyone is buying subwoofers now which are great for TV - but also sound s41t for music unless you like your audio sounding like a chav's Saxo with a big bass box in the boot.
Ultra high quality sound sources are fine until you try to play it through garbage trendy hardware with obligatory ipod dock. Onanism sells.
Increase the quality of music?
From what?
mp3s @ 192kbps, mp3s @ ~400kbps, CDs @ 1440kbps, DVD-A @ ~8mbps ??
Re: DVDA?
Such a shame the article did not address haptic feedback then.
Re: Increase the quality of music?
It would be nice to have music that is at least as good as CD and ideally at least as good as that obtainable from quality vinyl on a decent deck; and for such music to be readily obtainable like mp3's...
"We're talking audio with something like four to 16 times better fidelity."
And how exactly does one measure four times better? Or 16 times better? What rubbish.
Re: "We're talking audio with something like four to 16 times better fidelity."
Just turn the knob up to 11.
Re: "We're talking audio with something like four to 16 times better fidelity."
Probably he means that for the existing audio "profile", they will be able to cut the bitrate by a factor of 4.
The average stupid mp3 listening lusers today don't understand that mp3 is a lossy format, once the audio has been compressed down to a low bitrate mp3, you ain't getting back what was lost. The music industry loves those `fules`, 'cause they don't know what they are missing.
Re: "We're talking audio with something like four to 16 times better fidelity."
It doesn't matter how much better they make the signal chain, until we get something approximating* fidelity in loudspeakers, we're never going to achieve "Hi-Fi". However, given that our brains are very good at interpreting horribly distorted sound, maybe we shouldn't get too upset.
*Just take a look at the frequency and impulse response curves of any loudspeaker and weep at their non-linearity.
Re: "We're talking audio with something like four to 16 times better fidelity."
I don't know about the 16 number, maybe it's to do with sampling rate or noise floor, but the 4 times number probably has to do with the 4kHz bandwidth of most phone calls, which sound crap because most ears actually have a bandwidth about 4 times as much.
Thumb down, way more tech should be up. meh
I looked, the published event sucked. gadget girls sucked, everything did.
Nobody's doing shit, no cheap batteries, solar panels, voltage regs, freq and loads, it all sux.
Where's RIMM kicking google and apple ass? with battery saving QNX and the real shit everyone wants to run EVERYTHING yourself!
Sandbagging that's where.
But I will dawn teh asbestos suit, and take the WEAK ASS HITS.
"Google's Project Glass eyewear having Ultra HD resolution"
Yes... And it comes with a free Microscope so we can be amazed at the fidelity of a picture we can't see with the naked eye!
Mr Doherty, you are a moron!
Peter Murphy
Big thumbs up from me for the Maxell ad photo ....
If it helps I'm a "right technology for the situation" sort of guy. Running means MP3s on a shuffle, background music means MP3s via Sonos but actually sitting down and listening to music is done using vinyl and valves and wires and stuff
1000 Hz
I don't see what use this could possibly be except in high-speed cameras (for slow-motion). Even 120 Hz is overkill in my opinion.
Phoney
MEMs speakers might be OK for earphones. They won't be much use for filling your living room with bass - unless he's imagivisioning a flat panel speaker covered with millions of the things.
Also, the cochlear-measuring adaptive audio is going to require something in or near your ear. Won't be a fat lot of use with speakers (where there may also be more than one listener, with different hearing parameters!)
Perhaps he thinks no-one will listen to speakers in the future
Well...
...I'll just go home and chuck all my vinyl in the skip straight away.
Gawd, mummifying my Linn LP12 Sondek, Ittok arm. Cost me a fuc*king fortune....
Well, it's in England now, in my Ex's garage.
Oddly I (OK, she) still posess two vinyl copies of Sargeant Pepper. One in stereo, one in mono. IMHO, the mono was better.
Quad preamp, home-built amp (from an Eletro (?) ) article, BBC LP3 speakers, the thing was a joy.
Never hear or see them again.
Now, I stick a pair of 'buds in my ear, and sorta listen to MP3's. Sad, really.
Re: Gawd, mummifying my Linn LP12 Sondek, Ittok arm. Cost me a fuc*king fortune....
Well, it's in England now, in my Ex's garage.
Oddly I (OK, she) still posess two vinyl copies of Sargeant Pepper. One in stereo, one in mono. IMHO, the mono was better...
Aaauuuuggghhhhh.
Maybe it's just a generational thing. I dimly remember monaural records played on a big, stonking monaural "hi-fi" set with multiple cones in the cabinet, AM/FM, a record changer, etc. at our house when I was a young kid in the early '60s... but when I was old enough to start buying my own records, pretty much everything was stereo -- records, radio; hell, even some of the bigger-budget movies were coming out in stereo then. The whole frickin' world was in stereo.
I could understand some folks preferring Meet The Beatles or Hard Day's Night or even Revolver in mono -- but Sergeant Pepper? Cripes, man, you're missing half the fun.
well that's all very well
But I think the question really should be how is all this going to affect my fridge?
Re: well that's all very well
But I think the question really should be how is all this going to affect my fridge?
That's quite obvious. Your fridge is going to be networked via wifi and accessible via smartphone so that you can see how many beers are in it before you get up from the sofa, and so that if you're in the kitchen getting a beer and you've left your smartphone in the living room and a call comes, it will ring over to the kitchen and whoever's calling can leave a voice message on your fridge.
ABOVE, LEFT: Sample remote image transmitted from fridge to smartphone via wifi.
No it isn't!
My HiFi worked in1962 and it'll work for as long as I can still hear the music.
I've got the valves to keep it going, too.
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