WEBVTT - TechStuff Visits CES 2013: Part 1 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.560 Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from House 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:13.800 to Fox dot Com. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.680 tech Stuff. This is Jonathan Stricklab, your host extraordinaire, and 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:19.759 I'm Lauren bulk Baum, the first and only member of 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.560 the Society for the Prevention of Hedgehog under Representation. Okay, 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:25.159 then it's a true fact. You can look it up 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.479 on the internet. Will do alright. So to Lauren, ask 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:33.479 me how I'm feeling. How are you feeling, Jonathan, I'm exhausted. Lauren. Wait, 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.960 I'm barely able to string two coherent sentences together. Why 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.840 is that, Jonathan? That would be because I just returned, 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.199 as in within the last forty eight hours from c 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:49.560 e S in Las Vegas, Nevada. We live in Atlanta, Georgia, 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.680 which is nowhere near Las Vegas, Nevada, and she has 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.040 a totally different time zone. Yeah yeah, Trixie, Trixie. That 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.720 c c S being um the the convention formerly known 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.720 as the Consumer Electronics Show, Yep, yep. Now they're just 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.760 known as c e S and this is where companies 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.800 come to show off the product lines that they want 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.800 stores to carry. So, uh, I have a friend this 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.240 there's gonna be a lot of name dropping or potentially 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:17.920 a lot of name dropping in this episode, and I 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.560 want to warn everybody about that. I'm friends with Nate Lankson, 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.440 who is the editor of Wired dot co dot UK. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.120 Former c NET employee. Nate is a great guy. I 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:29.920 got to meet him in person for the first time 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.160 at the c E s and Nate's perspective. As we 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.200 were walking around, he was saying to me, Jonathan, well, 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.200 I don't understand is that why these booths here that 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.720 have these ipolled cases? I mean, what, why would they 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.600 even bother? And he doesn't. Actually suddenly that Ben't may 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.200 need to be from the south of London and he's not. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.320 But I said, well, Nate, you know you have to 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.120 understand that a lot of these these then these manufacturers 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.960 are actually here in the hopes of getting their products 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.480 carried in various catalogs and in retail stores. Yeah, I 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.080 suppose I just look at the world as if it's 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.560 all meant for me. And I said, actually, Nate, so 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.960 do I. So we shared something in common. But I 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.880 do understand, you know, that's the purpose for the event 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.480 is to get in front of the press and in 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.919 front of retail establishments to say, hey, here's all the 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.480 stuff that's gonna come out this year. Isn't it pretty 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.600 and shiny? And don't you want it? And quite a 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.559 few people do this. There's more than three thousand exhibitors 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.920 as of yeah, this show, So these numbers are very 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.880 slightly outdated. Um uh And and they are crammed into 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.200 one point nine million net square feet of existed space. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.760 Yeah and uh and there are about a hundred and 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:43.440 fifty thousand people attending and uh, it really felt pretty 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.320 crowded this year. There have been passed c e S 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.520 shows where attendance was down, especially right after the recession. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.680 A lot of companies ended up not being able to go. 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.680 They weren't able to afford the space. You know, they 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.119 were having bad year might not have been the best 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.760 time to show off. According according to wired It, it 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.600 costs like a hundred and fifty thousand dollars minimum for 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.760 everyone but the smallest vendors to set up a booth 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.600 and you know, fly people out there, feed them for 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.880 the week. Sure, I mean, and some of these booths 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.240 are incredibly elaborate. I mean, things like l G had 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.799 a very elaborate booth, Samsung Sony, Panasonic, you know, the 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.600 big names and electronics you would imagine have a fairly 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.960 large presence. Now, there were a couple of exceptions. Microsoft 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.480 famously did not have a booth this year. Normally you 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.800 would walk into the Central Hall at the Las Vegas 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.160 Convention Center, which has three major halls, a North Hall, 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.760 Central Hall, and a South Hall. The South Hall actually 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:40.200 has two floors. This is a huge amount of space. Now, 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.120 the Central Hall usually if you walked in from the 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.000 main entrance, you would have Intel on your right and 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.320 Microsoft on your left. Microsoft took it easy this year. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.040 They said not to come in and play, and instead 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.480 Hycinths was on the left. Uh and Dish Network was 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:01.240 also on the left. So Microsoft had had withdrawn from 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.840 the show, although that didn't stop Bomber from showing up 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.720 at a keynote in the yote keynote. Yeah, there were 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.800 some people who said it was a Bomber keynote and 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.320 he had his buddy from Qualcom there. And I would 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.880 not go so far as to say that, but some 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.599 other folks on Twitter we're saying such things. Well, if 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.160 I've heard it was a little bit wacky or the 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.920 Microsoft ever quite got with a keynote. There's some there's 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.880 some really entertaining videos about the sort of antics that 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.160 went on it. You know, Big Bird showed up. Yeah 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.400 that's gangster. You got Big Bird coming out throwing down 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.599 sweet rhymes. I'm not I'm not positive. I think I'm 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.640 that word. One thing? Did he think? Give me the streets? 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.280 So he comes from a street, not not d streets? Well, 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.000 because he lived life on the street. Okay, he's at 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:50.280 least as gangsters. Vanilla Eyes was can you grant me that? Yes, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.920 stry collaborate and listen. Okay, alright, so yeah, Big Bird 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:59.560 was there, Maroon five there who in the podcast in 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:03.640 the live streaming were overdubbed by um dido I believe 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.920 were they because they didn't have the rights I guess 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:10.280 to stream. That's kind of interesting, it was. I was 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.440 not aware of that from everything that I've seen. It 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.440 was just like everything that is insane about the internet 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.599 live on stage, and I'm not positive that that's what 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.160 qualcom meant to do. Right. Well, it was pretty great 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.840 for me to watch anyway there, and there were there 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.800 were tons of interesting moments. I mean, there were a 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.400 lot of celebrities there. I saw Danny DeVito. He was 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.200 wearing it It's always sunny in Philadelphia Baseball cap. But 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.840 I didn't get to chat with him. He was He 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.080 was very far away and on top of a stage, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:37.320 and I have a feeling that if I had gone 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.160 up to stay hi to him, some very large men 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:43.360 would have very prevented you, very gently but firmly discouraged 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.640 me from doing that. Um. But Day DeVito was there. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.480 You know, there are other performers. Fifty Set was their exhibit. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:55.400 Was there. Um, Felicia Day was running around. Felicia Day 0:05:55.440 --> 0:06:00.320 was the Entertainment Matters ambassador to c She had one 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.560 of her fans made a sash for her and she 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.960 wore that the entire time. Uh, I'm delightful, I am 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.080 told I didn't run into Miss Day this time. I 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:10.960 have met her in the past, but I did not 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.680 see her this time. L L. Cool J was there, 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.640 but we were not allowed to call it a come back. Um. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.640 There were Yeah, there were a lot of performers there. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.680 Because a lot of them also lend their names to 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.680 particular products or they endorse specific products where they are 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.960 there to help bring even more attention to a specific company. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.000 I mean, this is the company's chance, any individual company's 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.960 chance to grab that spotlight. But they're competing against everybody else. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.120 So you can pull out a lot of stops, room 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.159 full of three thousand spotlights and everyone trying to write 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.600 just your your rubber necking all over the place, trying 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.120 to see what the next big thing is. And so 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.840 you really are struggling to try and capture that attention. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.000 So what were some of those next big things? Well, 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.080 let's talk about It's it's easiest probably to talk about 0:06:55.120 --> 0:07:00.520 this in terms of product category groups of stuff, yeah, 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.120 because we could go company by company, but that just 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.360 gets really confusing. So let's talk about t vs first 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:10.320 of all. Now, televisions, that's always a big thing at CES. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.680 They're they're big, they're shiny, I mean you can and 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.680 they they're getting pretty darn big. There were more than 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.520 a few eighty four inch sets on the show floor. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.520 That's that's a bunch. Yeah, And there was one inch 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.720 TV as well that I saw, So, I mean, these 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.440 are not those aren't typical. Most of the ones you 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.080 see are tend to be still huge, and there were 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.720 a lot in the six seventy in range, and there 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.600 were a few there were oh, LAD screens that were 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.280 more like in theft inch But that's huge too, because 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.400 huge in a different way. A few years ago, when 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.840 when when my former co host and I Chris, when 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.720 we first went the very first year I went to 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.840 c S, I remember that the two of us marveled 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:55.480 over an o LAD display that was eleven inches and 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:56.960 it was and you sit there and look at and 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.760 you knew that was never going to market. This was 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.320 just a proto prototypes. Now we're seeing fifty five inch 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.640 TVs with OLED displays that are becoming more and more 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.120 of something that we're gonna see come to market, including 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:14.600 high ultra high definition displays. We're talking four K resolutions, 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.760 so four times the ten a DP resolution that we 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.640 consider high definition. This is ultra high definition. This is 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:27.000 incredibly vibrant colors, great like you can get right up 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.320 onto the screen and stare at it and you can't 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.760 see the pixelation. It's pretty phenomenal stuff. Um you got 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.400 usually you have a pretty high refresh rate, so it's 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.439 refreshing the image at a very uh fast rate, so 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.960 that you've got this very smooth motion. If any of 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.720 you went out and saw the hobbit in the forty 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.160 frames per second. You know what high frame rate looks like. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.280 It's kind of like that. It's great for stuff like sports, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.679 it's a little distracting in some other forms of entertainment 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.120 as far as I'm concerned, just because it gives a 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.160 sort of glider unreal. It's weird to say unreal because 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.439 it's very real, because because it's extremely real, but but 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.400 not cinematic or or or it doesn't feel like TV right. Well, 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.520 you know, it's whenever you're dealing with a film format 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.560 that was not really intended to be shown at that resolution, 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.160 you're going to run into issues like that. And I've 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.160 heard that actually, Sony, which is one of the companies 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.559 that has one of these super high definition televisions out 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.120 is starting to put out four K cameras. Yes, there 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.720 were four K cameras out there on display in the 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:28.000 on the show floor. They looked very heavy, These were 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.160 big cameras, but there. But Sony's actually leading the way 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.680 and creating four K cameras meant for the consumer, so 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.920 not just the pro sumer or the professional. Yeah, because 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.160 you know, there have been four K cameras available for 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:45.400 a while, but they were just within the grasp of 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.080 movie directors studios. Yeah, we're talking like you had to 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.480 have millions of dollars to get them. Now they're still 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.440 not cheap there, there are thousands and thousands of dollars, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.000 but they're starting to get to a point where they 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.920 are within the grasp of consumers who happened to have 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.280 a good amount of discretionary income. But you know, that's 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.079 the thing is that we're seeing. This is the way 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.840 technology works, right. You see a new technology come out 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.440 and at first it's really expensive, and then as more 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.880 people adopt it, manufacturing processes improved, things get more efficient, 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:19.719 and the prices start to come down. The same thing 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:21.560 with Moore's law. I mean that's the basis of Moore's 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.960 law as well. But getting back to TVs, Ultra high 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:29.320 definition was the buzzword in TVs. I mean everyone had 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.520 an ultra high definition television. Samsung showed off an eight 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.839 K TV which was enormous and was really more of 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:41.000 a prototype concept type thing. Um there does there's probably 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.680 a point where the human eye will not be able 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.400 to discern the difference in quality once you get to 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.280 beyond a certain resolution. We're just not most of us 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.280 don't have the acuity to be able to see that 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.800 kind of difference. But it means that you could create 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:01.880 ever larger screens and not not lose resolution. Right. So 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.360 it may not be good for a consumer, which is 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.360 weird when you think of the name used to be 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.720 consumer electronics, showcase or show rather. Uh, it might not 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.120 be for a consumer, but you might have an enormous display, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:18.120 say in Times Square or Piccadilly Circus, and you want 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.280 to have an enormous display that has great resolution, and 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:25.040 instead of having it made up of fifteen screens, it's 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.240 made up of one enormous screen. You could theoretically do 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.120 that once you get that resolution cranked up pretty high. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:36.199 The biggest criticism I heard of the four K TVs 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.880 had nothing to do with the sets. It was these 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:44.080 are amazing TVs, The images are beautiful. Where is the 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:48.400 content going to come from? Because without having someone to 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.600 deliver the four K content, you have a television that's 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.080 capable of showing these amazing pictures, but it's not getting 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.080 the information it needs in order to do that. Uh. 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:02.320 Nate legs and again he suggested that perhaps we might 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.120 expect the next generation of video game consoles to support 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.520 four K, so they would become a reason for people 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.839 to upgrade their TVs, not not that you could only 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:14.800 see it in four K, but that they'd be capable. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.600 I I just made a face, and I think the 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:21.480 face was me imagining playing Survive a horror video game 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.360 K and that doesn't sound like a thing that I 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.440 actually want to do it. It would be the blacks 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.320 would be very, very true blacks on the screen. Um. 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.280 In fact, there was one oh Lad TV that one 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:40.360 person said gave it an infinite contrast ratio, and the 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.640 contrast ratio we're really talking about how how true is 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.640 the black on that screen? Because of course, if you're 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.480 using an ol l c D screen, it's backlit, and 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.600 so anytime there's anything on the screen, anytime the set 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.880 is on, there's a light behind the screen that's on. 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:03.520 So there could be problems with backlit displays showing a 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.520 true black on the screen because it didn't come out 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.200 like charcoal gray. But a lot of the sets there 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.960 were more about representing true black on the screen. They 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:18.480 also had there was the world's first curved oh led TV. Yeah, 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.320 two of them. Did you get to see any of those? 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.640 I got to see both of them both. Yeah. See, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.199 here's the thing is that you have l G which 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.600 had the world's first curved oh led TV, and you 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:35.840 had Samsung, which had the world's first curved tvOS and Curious. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:40.520 Both companies were claiming that they had the first curved 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.600 led TV. Why you would want to curved oh led TV. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.480 I I'm sure there are reasons, and I'm sure they 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.280 are valid, but I do not know what they are. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.000 I've heard. I've heard that um that actually viewing from 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.760 the sides gets easier with a curve. That makes sense. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.800 I mean at least at least for the majority of 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.600 the screen. I would imagine if you get a little 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.480 too far are than the curvature would mean that the 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.160 side closest to you would be obscure. But it's a 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.000 very slight curve. It is. We're not talking about you know. Yeah, 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.600 it's not like it's not like a yeah exactly, Yeah 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.720 it is. It is a very subtle curve. It's one 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.079 of the things that if you're looking at it from 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.640 the side, you can, like from profile, you can tell. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.400 But otherwise it's not like if you were looking at 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.560 dead on It's not uh, incredibly obvious. But yeah, I 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.640 know that both of them had it, and that's one 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.720 of the things about Leo led screens is that you 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:32.560 can create uh, curved or even flexible screens depending upon 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.800 the material you're using. Um, so that was kind of neat. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.120 Let's take a quick moment to thank our sponsor now 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.640 and now back to the show. Also, there was not 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.000 as much of an emphasis on three D this year. Yeah. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.560 What was it two years ago that three D was 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.840 just the buzzword and everyone was Yeah, two years ago, 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.560 I would say was probably the hardest push for three D. 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.360 Everyone had three D Last year. Three D was still 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.960 important and there were a few play pass that had 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:05.040 the glasses free three D, which uh, you know requires 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.120 that you are in a sweet spot to view it 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.960 and three D effect. Uh. Three D was not as 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.360 it was still present in several different sets on the floor, 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:19.680 but it was not nearly as big a feature touted 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.880 this year as it has been a year's past. Yeah. Well, 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.720 you know, I think that people have started to realize 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.920 that not everyone is going to go out, run out 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.480 and replace their entire television in order to get this 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.440 content that really only exists in an extremely small sample 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.720 size of the media that you can play. Yeah, there's that, 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.960 And I think there's also people who still resist any 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.520 sort of television that would require them to wear glasses. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.440 And you know, you have two choices. You have the 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.680 active shutter lens glasses, which means that these are glasses 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.480 that required to be you knowed, their battery operated right, 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.640 or you have the passive ones. But either way you 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.160 have to keep track of them. I mean, I don't 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.120 know about you, Lauren, but for me, it's very easy 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.680 for me to lose my remote. I would hate to 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.440 also lose the glasses I need to watch my TV 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.800 right sure, And for for me personally, I mean, I 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.040 really I avoid seeing movies in three D whenever I can, 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.520 because it's kind of headachey and a little bit of 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.720 orient it can be for some people. I like the 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.400 three D effect. It's just that, uh, it's not. It's 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.600 not a killer feature for me. Now that being said, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.760 there was one company, Samsung in fact, that had a 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:27.560 dual vision television A dual view TV. Yeah, I heard 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.680 about that. It's it's essentially a split screen television, except 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.200 both screens are happening at the same time, and depending 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.680 on which pair of glasses you're wearing it's it's projecting 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.400 two images and two different people can sit in front 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.440 of it and see two different things and c two 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.120 different and you're hooked up to a two headphones something 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.600 you're each listening to your you can get and there 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.680 are two different variations of this too. You could get 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.600 one that was active, or you could get passive. In 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.160 this case, the Samsung said I looked at was passive, 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.960 meaning that you would have one set of glasses that 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:59.440 would have polarized lenses that are aligned in one way, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.800 and then you have a second set of glasses that 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:07.399 be polarized but aligned, uh like ninety degrees exactly that 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:11.159 kind of thing. And normally with a three D set, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.200 you would have the same kind of setup, except you 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.600 would have one lens polarized one way the other lens 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:19.280 polarized another way. So each eye accepts a different set 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.000 of images, your brain combines the two that's what gives 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.040 you the three D effect. In this case, the implementation 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.120 was different. Both eyes got the same set of images, 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.680 but it was a different set of images than someone 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.280 wearing the other pair of glasses. So you could play 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.960 a video game and you're looking at one screen and 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.359 the person playing against you is looking at another screen. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.600 So imagine playing a game like there's this thing called 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.400 football that I've heard about that sometimes a guy named 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.320 Madden likes to play. Anyway, if you wanted to set 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:54.400 a specific kind of play, like a hail Mary pass 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.320 is a thing, you could select that. And you're wearing 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.280 your glasses so you can totally see everything that you 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.880 need to do. Your opponent is wearing a different pair 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.560 of glasses. They can't see what you see. They're seeing 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.840 their side, so it keeps everything secret. Yeah. So so 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:13.400 there's there's virtually no way to screen look right. And 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.760 also it would even allow you to do things like 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.920 watch two different Theoretically you could watch two different programs 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.600 at the same time, but of course that does require 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.159 that you have your own individual audio feed in otherwise 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.200 you would just hear a jumble of audio everything. Yeah, 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.040 that would be Yeah. So while my wife was watching 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:35.600 the documentary series Supernatural, I could be watching something a 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:40.080 little more akin to my tastes, like, um, I don't 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:45.960 know that Mitchell and web look keep show both of it, 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.160 which have David Mitchell and Rubbert Webb. Jonathan don't don't 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.560 pretend that you don't like the documentary series Supernatural. We 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.960 are dreaming. They are dreamy, dreamy boys. But yeah, that 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.320 that kind of sums up. I mean, like everyone had 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.200 these different TVs. If you were to ask me who 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.240 had the best TV out there, I could not give 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:06.080 you an answer because we've reached a level of quality 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:13.000 where it's it's beyond my ability to describe it to people. Also, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.040 you have to keep in mind that every single one 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:19.080 of these companies spinds a huge amount of time calibrating 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:23.120 those televisions so that they look perfect, perfect in that environment. Absolutely, 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.080 And you're talking about a big convention center where you 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:28.840 know it's not going to have the same sort of 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.000 viewing condition as you would in your in your house. Probably, 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:34.600 I don't think your house would have the same lighting 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.560 as the convention center, dead unless your house has one 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:42.680 point nine, in which case, in which case, dude, hook 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:47.800 us up will come for your barbecue. I will bake 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:52.000 you brownies. There we go. But yeah, that was beyond TVs. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.840 I guess the next category, a big one, would be computers. 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.400 I guess. I guess computers are sort of a thing 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.240 that people use. Computers and tablets. Yeah, computers, tablets together. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.240 Everyone had tablets everyone. There were a lot of different 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.680 tablets out there, including a lot of Windows eight tablets, 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.280 so people were starting to really start to show off 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.119 the Windows eight user interface and tablet format, which you know, 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:16.639 including a gaming tablet which we'll talk about later. Uh. Yeah, 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.000 it was pretty impressive. The big one, the big one 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.560 that I heard of, and I literally big one was 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:26.040 Microsoft's um no, not Microsoft, sorry, the Lenovo Yeah, the 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.720 Idea Center table PC. Yeah, yeah, I want to say. 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:33.520 It's twenty seven inches and it's an all in one PC. 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:38.440 When it's vertical, it runs Windows eight, so you've got 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.560 it vertically aligned where it's you know, like you could 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:42.840 have it mounted. They had it mounted on like a 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.480 cart kind of thing. But when it was vertically aligned, 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:49.520 it was Windows eight. So it's that touch screen user interface. 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:51.680 It's running a full version of Windows eight. You could 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:53.280 do all the things on it that you could do 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.719 with the Windows eight machine, except for pick it up 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.040 and move it into another room by yourself. It was 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.600 it was was a bit of a bit of a 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:05.000 hefty device, but then when you would tilt it horizontally, 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.439 it would switch to Lenovo's proprietary user interface, and it 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:10.960 would become a surface for you to play on. In fact, 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.679 surface is a great term. It reminded me a lot 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:17.280 of the Microsoft Surface table top, which is now called 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.159