During CES once again, I did on-the-spot reporting for the Show Daily, run by TWICE. Many of the stories I wrote appeared ONLY in the printed edition of the Show Daily, unfortunately. But this story on Hisense’s new 2016 TVs made it online, and you can read it here. (Oh, I took the picture, too.)
Um, well – apparently that headline is wrong, as was the Amazon reference in a similar report I wrote for Techlicious (“Samsung’s New Refrigerator Is Also a Giant Tablet“).
Samsung told a group of reporters it had invited to a pre-CES pre-brief that its smart fridge would include Amazon’s Echo. But then at CES, Samsung told reporters it WOULDN’T include Amazon Echo compatibility. Samsung could have told us before my and other stories from other reporters were published, and every reporter who published this erroneous Amazon aspect was pretty pissed off.
TWICE assigned me the smart home beat for CES. Here’s one of my on-site reports on what new gear was on display in a wide variety of booths at the Sands’ Smart Home Marketplace during the show.
Here’s my report on the new Wi-Fi specification, HaLow, technically 802.11ha, for TWICE during CES.
Light bulbs are a universal sign for a bright idea (pun intended), but are smart bulbs actually smart? I explored the smart bulb subject for re/code, which you can read here.
As our annual sojourn to the crowded and exhausting CES creeps closer like an appointment for a root canal, we might foretell here what we expect to see at the annual electronics gathering. But instead, we’d like to look ahead at a more distant future, one five years-plus hence in which commercial deployments utilizing the 5G standard are expected to start rolling out in major urban centers.
Yes, new 4K UHD TVs with HDR (High Dynamic Range) and WCG (Wide Color Gamut) are here. But in this piece for Techlicious, I explored the best bargains in both 2K and 4K (albeit last year’s models), including the Vizio model pictured (you’ll have to read the story to get the model number)..
All 4K UHDs can decode HEVC files; after all, all the 4K streaming video content from Netflix and Amazon and Vudu and anyone else who is or will be streaming 4K video is encoded in HEVC.
Unfortunately, the HEVC ecosystem hasn’t extended to the home video recording side.
Likely my last story for Consumers Digest (it’s a long, sordid story). In all events, my general survey of the smartphone landscape as of September 2015 (when written, not when published).
eBay was born in 1995, and their editorial folks asked me to ruminate on the technologies that were prevalent that year. You can read the interesting state of 1995 technology here.
