Ten... stars of the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2012 Week Las Vegas, gambling’s natural home played host to 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week. Here, the technology giants placed their bets and showed their hands with the launch of hundreds, nay thousands, of new technology products. On the table, PC manufacturers were upping the stakes with Ultrabooks …
You see, the "journalist" thinks that any company which makes more than just iPod docks and squeaky little single driver speakers with nasty subwoofers farting out one note of bass must be "high end". Pity the poor plebe who has never actually heard anything "HiFi" in his life.
"Register journalist in writing down what the person running the stand at CES told them about a company they don't know anything about SHOCKER"
Then again, anyone who's taking advice on buying audio gear from the Reg is on a hiding to nothing anyway. They're wonderful at a lot of things, but take them outside their comfort zone and they're as credulous as the next man...
If there was a product worth mocking at CES this year, it had to be Razer's Project Fiona with it's deadly serious trailer video - those who have seen it will know what I mean.
For those that haven't, Project Fiona is Razer's attempt at "mobile PC gaming", which in this case consists of a tablet with two Wii-mote lookalikes strapped to its sides. The net result looks hideously unergonomic, in addition to just being hideous.
Nice try Razer but I think I'll stick with my own method of "mobile PC gaming". It's called a laptop. Perhaps you've heard of them.
A large TV, a bunch of laptops and some gadgets that will gather dust.
I guess that the gold rush is over and this is all mainstream by now with only incremental improvements instead of innovation.
Maybe biotech will bring us some consumer fun... Well, until Deux Ex era comes to reality that is...
Please do not refer to Behringer as "high-end" audio. I work professionally in sound, and trust me when I say Behringer are an industry wide joke. They make cheap naff sounding knock offs of other good designs, make them look similar and assume joe Bloggs won't be able to tell they sound awful.
That Behringer iAxe makes me SO mad.
There's a perfectly good bit of technology already available that allows people to learn the guitar and it's called a guitar. You can buy for £99 with an amplifier from that well known auction site! It has touch and feel and the required tactile feedback from the strings. Play the iAxe and all you're learning to do is play the iAxe not a guitar. I'm off to placate my Les Paul and my Strat now ... they're moaning in pain!
Nothing really innovative except, maybe, the OLED TVs.
What's the point of an Ultrabook when there's Air & that Intel "concept"? Concept models are the antithesis of innovation, just decide what you're going to build & build it. CES isn't the Detroit or Geneva Motor Show, it's a gadget fest.
Asus publicly demonstrating how to execute an epic fail with Transformer line. The TF201 is nowhere to be seen since the pre-orders cleaned out first UK shipment due last week & now they've announced another, bigger, better Prime 700 already for Q2. That's stellar: create obvious demand, fractionally fulfil & then rub early customer's nose in poo (I recall same thing with their 1st gen 701 netbooks in early '08 where customers waited 4 and 5 months for orders to fulfil).
Note: not a fanboi - no iThings or Macs here - gotta admire their execution though.
just because you are not a fan of 3d doesn't mean its crap...
I bought a 3d tv a few months back, I wasn't really bothered about the 3d part of it, but what I was interested in is that the processing power required for 3d, in general makes for a better quality 2D HD picture which I can confirm to be true....
after trying out 3d, the problem is not with the technology, its with the film makers use of it. I have seen some very good and some very poor moves. but by far the best is watching the football or other sports in 3d...
Laptop, laptop, laptop, laptop, laptop. "Silicon-Carbi...YAWN..." (Clarkson).
With respect to the 50-something inch TVs, the 60-inch class (just $999 at Xmas) is the new sweet spot (making it mid-size). "Big" is now the 70+ inch class. Anything in the 50s is obviously intended for a bedroom. ;-)
Only thing that jumped out was the Asus pad with a Full HD screen? Grand!
Until I realised:
- on a screen that small I'd probably not be able to tell the difference between 1080p or 720p.
- A full quality, un-encrypted movie probably won't fit in the < 32gb of default storage. Never mind 2 or 3.
"what I was interested in is that the processing power required for 3d, in general makes for a better quality 2D HD picture which I can confirm to be true..."
Or the extra cost of adding 3D made it a worse or expensive 2D set perhaps or are you sure a £800 3D TV is better at 2D than a dedicated £800 2D-only TV?
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