It's CES Time Kiddos - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio

virometal · 01-07-2008, 02:57 AM

Anyone else refreshing Engadget every five minutes? If so, what hot gear you have your eye on?

I've been looking for a new LCD TV for my guy room, and the Sharp "Game-centric LCD" might just be the ticket:

"Fast Input Switching" Now that's sounds nice for someone like me who's skipping 'tween PC, TV, DVD, and 360 inputs all the time...On the other hand, us Yanks can finally drop 2.5k (retail) on a Sony XEL-1:

Sony also displayed a 27" OLED on the floor. So what's the deal with the OLED? I know insane Contrast, paper thin, but what are the negatives, if any?

marvin · 01-07-2008, 06:28 AM

Just wow.

virometal · 01-07-2008, 03:55 PM

^ The best part of that display, it's DLP (Wired) so may be surprisingly reasonably priced for Alienware that is.

Here's another shot:

Lust worthy!

For a non display device, I like this Logitech mini wireless keyboard. This could come in hand for couch surfing:

Davesrose · 01-07-2008, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by virometal

^ The best part of that display, it's DLP (Wired) so may be surprisingly reasonably priced for Alienware that is.

Too bad it's Alienware: I had to replace a $4000 Alienware laptop because they didn't know how to fix it. God knows how expensive one of their displays are when you factor that in!!!

I might actually get into Blu-Ray when this comes to market:

Blu-ray.com - CES 2008: Panasonic Press Conference - DMP-BD50

Davesrose · 01-07-2008, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by virometal

Sony also displayed a 27" OLED on the floor. So what's the deal with the OLED? I know insane Contrast, paper thin, but what are the negatives, if any?

New technology (IE might have some kinks to sort out)...notice most reviews of TVs still give the nod to Pioneer plasmas as having the best color (the Kuro line). But I do think that the new LED technologies are really going to look awesome with future generation video codecs. They can offer HDR relatively inexpensively. I notice that one of the features of that Panasonic player I just linked was that it processes video at 12bpc. Right now movies are encoded at 8bpc, and I hope that with all these HDR technologies, the video consortiums start coming up with compression standards that go up to 16bpc.

Austin 3:16 · 01-07-2008, 04:52 PM

I've never seen a LCD with a larger than 22" screen that looks good.

jmmtn4aj · 01-07-2008, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by marvin

Just wow.

As th saying goes, 'holy ****!'

marvin · 01-07-2008, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by virometal

Sony also displayed a 27" OLED on the floor. So what's the deal with the OLED? I know insane Contrast, paper thin, but what are the negatives, if any?

Degradation. The organic material in OLED displays degrade much faster than existing display technologies. Even worse, different colors degrade at significantly different rates (blue sub pixels degrade 2-3x faster than red and green pixels), leading to usable display lifetimes that are shorter than the already short pixel lifetimes.

In current applications, mostly phones, car head units, and mp3 players, short product lifespans and generally low fidelity requirements make these downsides a nonissue.

OverlordXenu · 01-07-2008, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by Austin 3:16

I've never seen a LCD with a larger than 22" screen that looks good.

1. That's not an LCD.
2. You must have never seen a good LCD above 22".

If it was 2x1920x1200, I would consider it. 2x1440x900 doesn't really interest me.

jmmtn4aj · 01-08-2008, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by Austin 3:16

I've never seen a LCD with a larger than 22" screen that looks good.

Eh? 22"ers are almost all TN. The more popular 24", 27" and 30"ers are PMA/MVA or S-IPS, which means if you got a well known >24", it'd definitely look better than a well known 22"