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Westinghouse’s 110-inch 4K television costs $300,000, is built to order (eyes-on)

Westinghouse's 110inch 4K television is built to order, fill your living room eyeson

We must admit, we were a bit surprised when we heard that Westinghouse — not exactly the first name in HDTV — would be bringing a 110-inch 4K HDTV to CES. Naturally, once we got to Vegas, we had to see the thing for ourselves. Its size is as impressive as you imagine, and the native-res 4K video looked really good on such a massive screen, with nearly 180-degree viewing angles and vibrant colors. Unfortunately, the unit we saw was an engineering test mule, so the back was all exposed panels and circuit boards and there was some ghosting on the screen itself. However, we were assured that those willing to pony up the obscene $300,000 asking price can get a flaw-free TV custom installed via special order at the end of Q1 of this year. Want to see more of what all those dollars will get you? Check out our gallery of shots below.

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Sony demos Ultra HD whoppers plus prototype 4K media player

Sony hasn’t been left behind in the Ultra HD gush, with its own oversized 4K TVs as well as a concept Ultra HD media player which we’re hoping spawns a commercial version. The company announced a line of up to 84-inch Ultra HD sets at CES this week, including the X9000A series with its prominent speakers taking pride of place around the bezel.

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Sony’s using “4K X-Reality PRO” branding for its Ultra HD models, which start at 55-inches. The 84-inch XBR-84X900A, for instance, has a total of ten speakers, and comes with a One-touch NFC remote which allows for easy pairing and streaming from an Xperia smartphone or tablet.

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As for what that 3840 x 2860 resolution can do, Sony had a display showing a full newspaper spread on a single display, with all the text legible. There’s a close-up shot in the gallery below.

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Unfortunately, the 4K media player is being described as just a prototype for driving Sony’s demo displays here at CES; the company says it has no specific plans to release it. The hatbox-style design does have some history, however; Sony had a range of similarly-shaped VAIO PCs back in 2007.

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Sony demos Ultra HD whoppers plus prototype 4K media player is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Westinghouse 110-inch 4K TV eyes-on: massively giant

There’s nothing quite like a war between television manufacturers to bring our the WOW factor at CES, and this year’s Westinghouse presentation includes quite the looker – a 110-inch 4K TV that’ll just swallow your room up whole. This machine is not yet ready for the market, but certainly will be soon – coming in at a cool $300,000 USD when you want to pick yours up with your life savings. Of course this machine isn’t exactly built for the everyday consumer, but getting up close and personal with it will br bringing on the heat to anyone’s eyeballs and brain.

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This beast is ready to scale up standard HD signal to fill its monstrous full screen display, running native 4K content with the greatest of ease as well. This is but one of several televisions that’ve been revealed this week by Westinghouse that’ll have you raising your eyebrows, the others being 50, 55, and 65-inch versions of this machine starting at $2,500, moving up to the middle with $3k, and ending on the largest for $4,000 USD.

Each of these sets will be available and shipping in the first quarter of 2013 and will be in stores save the largest of the pack. The giant 110-inch model will be made to order, respecting the idea that if you’re going to pay that amount of cash for a television, the company is going to take care of you. Shake hands with Westinghouse with a 4K television this coming season – and play some Mario Brothers while you’re at it to see how giant the pixels are.

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It should be made clear that when we got the opportunity to see this 2013 lineup this week, we saw images so bright and so sharp that we’ll have a difficult time ever looking at a lesser machine again. The room these beasts were in were engulfed in their undeniable wave of image power. Have a peek at the images we have of them above and below, but know that it’s not entirely possible to capture their excellence without your own eyes on the spot.

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Westinghouse 110-inch 4K TV eyes-on: massively giant is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Toshiba unveils L9300 series 4K TVs at CES

Toshiba has announced a new series of 4K Ultra HD TVs at CES this week. The new TV series is the L9300 range and promises four times the resolution of full HD TVs on the market today. The new TV line is powered by the proprietary Toshiba CEVO 4K Quad+Dual Core Processor.

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Toshiba says that the L9300 series TVs deliver the highest quality Ultra HD image processing available. The processor inside the TVs is also able to use Resolution Restoration to restore clean and very near ultra HD image quality from content with less than 4K resolution. The TVs also feature color gamut enhancement to improve the intensity of colors.

Toshiba’s L9300 TVs have a 240 Hz refresh rate promising clearer and smoother fast motion video. The TV line also uses the CQ Engine promising superior picture quality controls with Edge Enhancer, Dynamic Gamma, Color Master, and Expert Mode Calibration Capability. The TV also has a new UltraClear Dynamic Noise Reduction feature to create clear images without reducing image detail.

The series of 4K TVs also has advanced Cloud TV functionality offering a connected watching experience. The Cloud TV functionality includes a family calendar to share family events, and personal messaging allowing you to send and receive messages from friends and family. The Cloud TV features also includes a photo album, streaming news, the ability to access content from DLNA-enabled devices, and an integrated TV programming guide with advanced search capabilities. The TV line also has integrated Wi-Fi, Miracast, and WiDi. Toshiba will begin shipping the L9300 4K TVs this summer.


Toshiba unveils L9300 series 4K TVs at CES is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Samsung Announces 85″ and 110″ Ultra HD 4K Televisions

Another day at CES another Ultra HD TV from Korea with Samsung’s with a nice 85 and 110″ model. Announced at around 30,000 USD in the US and £20,000 in Europe these new Ultra HD TVs will come with another world’s first a 1.35Ghz Quad Core CPU, 4 HDMI out, Optical Out and Samsung’s S-Recommendation with Voice controls!

Panasonic Develops New Tablet with 20″ 4k IPS Alpha LCD Panel

Panasonic today announced the development of a new tablet computer that features a 20-inch IPS Alpha LCD panel with more than four times the resolution of Full High Definition, as well as a high precision digital pen. With the target to commercialize the new tablet later this year, Panasonic is gearing itself up to propose new business value this feature-rich device will offer to its customers in a wide range of industries.
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Sharp’s next-gen concept displays and 60-inch ICC 4K LCD (eyes-on)

Sharp's next-gen concept displays and 60-inch ICC 4K LCD (eyes-on)

The majority of Sharp’s area on the CES show floor is taken up by its 2013 consumer AQUOS range, but hidden in dark corners are tech demos, concept panels, and ridiculously priced displays. One demonstration set is split into two sections, comparing the company’s next-gen Quattron yellow sub-pixel technology with the current generation. Did the color’s look great? For sure. Did it look like the current-gen Quattron had been made intentionally low quality? Definitely. The two-faced demo TV also had the glare-reducing Moth-Eye technology on board, as did a 70-inch UHDTV concept model which a Sharp rep called “just an exercise in engineering.” It wasn’t exactly gasp-inducing, but the anti-reflective tech was certainly working. Finally, hidden behind a curtain and crammed into a small pitch-black room (literally) were a bunch of Sharp’s “Integrated Cognitive Creation” (ICC) 60-inch 4K LCDs. The hook of the ICC PURIOS is that it upscales 1080p to 4K, and will do so for only $25,000 – $30,000 when it launches in the US this summer. We couldn’t really tell the difference between the HD and 4K pictures, but maybe we should’ve brought a microscope for a more thorough analysis.

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Stream TV glasses-free 4K 3D eyes-on (video)

Stream TV glassesfree 4K 3D eyes on video

It wouldn’t be CES without Stream TV showing off more interesting glasses-free 3D technology and then launching, um, nothing into the wide market. Hopefully that won’t happen this time, now that the company has paired with OEM panel-makers Pegatron and Hisense, and is now showing off its technology in UltraHD 4k. It has a proprietary system for encoding 2D and 3D video using occlusion, which is delivered to standard panels that have been retrofitted with its optical glass sandwich to bring the spec-less 3D illusion to viewers. This year, it added all-new algorithms that can handle native UHDTV content or up-res HD to 4k, both in non-realtime for quality, or realtime to convert standard 2D TV to 3D on-the-fly.

The 3D viewing experience seems better than previous iterations to our eyes, and Stream TV explained that the improved resolution was due to the company’s software filling in pixels on standard HD content to make up the deficit to 4k. The stereoscopic level (which can be adjusted) also seemed decent even if you move around the room, though still not nearly as good as passive or active 3D with glasses. It does trump passive tech in one area though, as there’s no drop in the screen’s brightness that normally happens when you don specs. All the content we viewed was HD that had been converted to 4k, unfortunately, so we couldn’t judge how higher resolution, glasses-free 3D images would look at that res. As far as the real-time encoded live TV content, the resolution looked fine but the stereoscopic illusion was a little, well, flat — as if layers of 2D objects were placed at varying distances.

Though Stream TV has created some neat technology, we’ve heard this entire song and dance beforea few times — and have yet to see products actually arrive in any volume to the marketplace. The company expects panels with its technology to start shipping sometime this year with comparable prices to other glasses-free 3D tech, but until it actually happens, don’t hold your breath. Check the gallery below and video after the break, in plain old 2D, of course.

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The Daily Roundup for 01.08.2013

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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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