Laser TV took center stage in Hisense’s virtual CES news conference, presented live from Mandalay Bay via a YouTube feed Tuesday.The Chinese brand will display 8K laser TV for the first time publicly this week at its Central Hall booth at CES, using a Hisense-developed 8K 120-Hz image-quality chip that can support 20,000 Mini-LED backlight partitions, said former LG executive David VanderWaal, recently named Hisense vice president-marketing, Americas.
ProSource is entering 2022 facing a series of challenges with a new chairman who has weathered the industry’s most difficult trials of the past. “Every serious business crisis that I’ve faced in my career has been different,” Walt Stinson, CEO of Denver-based ListenUp, told Consumer Electronics Daily after his election to a two-year term. “I’ve gotten better at managing crisis, but each crisis requires a great deal of adaptability and there are a lot of uncertainties,” he said.
In a global, pre-CES announcement out of Korea Monday, Samsung revealed 110-, 101- and 89-inch TVs in its Micro LED TV lineup that use 25 million micrometer-sized self-emitting LEDs for light and color. The company said in December 2020 it was taking preorders for a 110-inch “MicroLED” display for availability in Q1 2021 (see 2012110015).
As interest grows in Web 3.0, blockchain domain names are increasingly seen as a key service, experts told us. Blockchain domains have been around for several years (see 1810040002) but the idea of a decentralized system that could fix many of the problems with the current web brought them into sharper focus. Web 3.0 fans say it could, among other benefits, improve domain security and offer additional services the ICANN domain name system (DNS) can't. Skeptics say blockchain domains could hamper law enforcement and intellectual property rights, and they raise interoperability and inefficiency issues.
The FCC will likely take on several spectrum proceedings in coming months, regardless of what happens to the nomination of Gigi Sohn as the third Democratic commissioner, industry officials said. Those items could include proposals on the 12 GHz and 4.9 GHz bands, the lower 37 GHz band, revised rules for short-range field disturbance sensor radars in the 60 GHz band and allowing cellular vehicle-to-everything deployments in 5.9 GHz.
Sound United wants to establish a stronger digital e-commerce footprint, James Krakowski, vice president-commercial operations, told Consumer Electronics Daily Thursday. “Consumers are looking to engage with brands directly,” he said, and they want to engage with trusted retailers online.
CTA President Gary Shapiro “will be pleased" to discuss, "sometime after CES," why the association's show policy didn’t require COVID-19 booster shots for the fully vaccinated, he emailed Consumer Electronics Daily Tuesday. “Right now my focus is on CES 2022 where we have lots going on and over 2100 exhibitors.” We queried the CTA communications team for months on the rationale for CES 2022's no-booster policy but didn't get a definitive response.
CTA and other commenters told the FCC the $14.2 billion affordable connectivity program (ACP) should make room for the expansion of wireless networks, which will be critical to new generations of connected devices. Commenters also continue to raise implementation concerns as the agency shifts from the $3.1 billion emergency broadband benefit program to the new ACP (see 2112090061). Replies were posted Wednesday and Tuesday in docket 21-450.
With CES 2022 exhibitor move-ins already underway about a week out from the opening of the Jan. 5-8 event in Las Vegas, health and safety concerns sparked additional exhibitors to say they will forego physical participation in the show due to the spread of COVID-19's highly transmissive omicron variant. "One week to go!" tweeted CTA Executive Vice President-CES Karen Chupka Tuesday evening. "It’s beginning to look like CES."
Samsung previewed its CES message, “Together for Tomorrow,” in a Tuesday YouTube teaser showing friendly aliens behind a frosted glass window busy at work preparing a product showcase. A brief glimpse at themes focused on sustainability, going green, tech, e-cycling, home, human and love. Samsung Electronics CEO Jong-Hee Han is slated to give the CES keynote Jan. 4 at the Venetian's Palazzo Ballroom.