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Tecno demos Starry Optical Fiber technology at CES
3:49 am | January 8, 2025

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Tecno showcased its latest concept development at CES with its Starry Optical Fiber technology. This is a mixture of optical fibers and mini-LED lights placed inside the battery cover of a modified Phantom V Flip 2 for a one-of-a-kind shimmering look. Tecno says the Starry Optical Fiber process involves 30 manufacturing processes and features 150 ultra-thin optical fibers combined with 108 mini-LED lights, which were carefully threaded via UV adhesive to form a fabric-like structure. Starry Optical Fiber technology features four lighting modes, including Tidal Waves, Rosy Sunset,...

Samsung unveils new TVs and projector at CES, details “Samsung Vision AI”
8:33 pm | January 7, 2025

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CES 2025 starts today and Samsung’s First Look event focused on the present and future of displays. The company unveiled new TVs, a projector and even a beauty mirror. Also, you shouldn’t be shocked to find out that AI permeated everything. Samsung launched what it is calling “Samsung Vision AI”, the foundation of AI-powered screens for the future. This allows displays at home to be aware of their surroundings and adapt to their users. Before you dismiss it, some features sound quite useful. Live Translate is an on-device AI model that translates subtitles in real-time. Yes, we’re this...

Samsung sets the theme for its CES 2025 press conference: ‘AI for All: Everyday,  Everywhere’
4:38 pm | December 5, 2024

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Samsung is building its mobile strategy around AI – it will be the cornerstone of One UI 7 and it is expanding AI features beyond phones with recent One UI Watch updates. There is more to come and we will hear about it soon as AI will be the focus of Samsung’s press conference at CES. CES 2025 will be held in Las Vegas between January 7 and 10. Samsung is getting an early start and has scheduled a press conference for January 6 (2pm local time, that’s 10pm UTC). The event will be livestreamed on Samsung Newsroom. The theme of the press conference is “AI for All: Everyday, Everywhere”....

I saw the LG C4 OLED TV in action, and the brightness boost is very real
2:57 am | January 10, 2024

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LG revealed all of its new 2024 OLED TVs at CES 2024 – including the first transparent OLED TV that you’ll be able to buy, which we got to see in action – and the one I was most curious to see in action (apart from the see-through one, obviously) was the LG C4.

In its initial unveiling of the C4, LG revealed that the new model would be brighter than last year’s LG C3, despite using the same core OLED panel. This is an important upgrade, because its key competitor last year was the Samsung S90C, which offered much better brightness at the same price, and this year’s Samsung S90D will be even brighter. But the question was: how much brighter would the C4 be?

After seeing the LG C4 in action, I don’t have an exact measurement for how much brighter it is, but I can sum it up: bright enough.

The level of extra vibrance and pop is immediately clear; HDR highlights gleaming off metal are more dazzling, and white areas of the screen have the extra cleanness that brighter OLED whites bring. It feels like a major hardware upgrade, not the same kind of panel. 

LG says that the brightness improvement is all down to the new Alpha 9 Gen 7 processor, which is much better at power management, meaning that LG can afford to pump more power into highlight areas making them brighter, because it’s using power much more efficiently in other areas of the picture.

The LG C4 TV in a hotel room, demoing a movie

(Image credit: Future)

This may mean that the brightness improvements are largely limited to highlights rather than also offering a fullscreen brightness upgrade (so, basically, it may be that the C4 is a big step up for HDR movies, but not so much for watching sports or beating reflections), but we’ll only know that for sure from testing.

I actually saw the LG C4 next to the LG G4 (which is also set to be brighter than last year’s LG G3 model, but there is an actual hardware improvement in play there as well as the better processing, because the lenses in the micro lens array (MLA) OLED screen have been redesigned), and while the G4 is still a clear step up in brightness over the mid-range C4, the two sets looked far closer to each other than I expected.

My estimate is that the C4 is approaching 1,000 nits of peak brightness for the 55-inch and up models, though to be clear, I have no measurements or official line to back this up. LG wouldn’t be drawn on the exact figures it expects the C4 to hit, but suggested that this is the correct ballpark.

The smaller 42-inch and 48-inch C4 models will also be brighter than last year’s models, though as with previous years will still be less bright than the 55-inch and up models.

The LG C4 TV in a hotel room, demoing a movie

(Image credit: Future)

From the demo I had, it was hard to judge the other improvements to the processing – the C4 uses a new generation of the Alpha 9 processor, rather than the new and extra advanced Alpha 11 that's in the LG G4, but there should be a further polish to the images.

But one of the juiciest upgrades to the processor is the addition of LG's lossless wireless Dolby Atmos sound, which we think is a big deal. This means you can connect one of LG's higher-end 2024 soundbars to it without any cables, but still get full-quality, uncompressed audio to the soundbar.

Speaking of audio, though, one of the weakest areas of the LG C3 compared to competitors was its built-in sound, with the Samsung S90C beating it at the same price, and the Sony A80L offering a big audio upgrade for a little more money.

LG had the C4 paired with the SC9S soundbar during my demo, which it specifically recommends as a pairing with the TV, using a custom bracket for the two to connect neatly. We know that LG's new processor does even more elaborate upscaling of sound for spatial audio, but will the actual speakers be better? I don't have a ton of hope considering how strongly LG thinks you should use this soundbar.

I can't wait to get the LG C4 in our testing room to fully test its performance and see how it ranks among the best OLED TVs, but from the moment you see it, it's clear that it delivers the exciting year-on-year improvement that the LG C3 struggled to offer, excellent though it was. LG has come to play in 2024.

We’re covering all of the latest CES news from the show as it happens. Stick with us for the big stories on everything from 8K TVs and foldable displays to new phones, laptops, smart home gadgets, and the latest in AI.

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