CES 2008 TV-Related Recap

• January 11th, 2008 | General

CES 2008 finished up in Las Vegas, yesterday and it was a show that saw many an amazing gadget, device, deck, console and set announced, revealed, unveiled, showed-off, demoed, and hands-onned, many of which were some pretty amazing TV-related technology.  In case you’ve been living under a rock, CES is the Consumer Electronics Show and it runs every January for a few days, allowing anyone who’s anyone to show of their electronics for the new year.  Naturally, there were plenty of TVs, video projectors, DVD decks, and more–enough to make a TV Ninja swoon.  But to pick the best?  That’s tough.

Could it have been one of the many projectors unveiled?  Perhaps the crazily-high-priced, uber-high-end, Runco video projector that features Vivix II video processing, O-Path tech, CinOptx lenses, a 4,000:1 contrast ratio, 2850 ANSI lumens really lites your candle?  Or was it the incredibly short throw of the Toshiba TDP-EW25U video projector that can project a 60-inch image with just four feet of distance between it and the screen?  Of course, Sanyo has a projector that can do an 80-inch throw from just 3.15 feet.

Maybe it was electronics grand-daddy Marantz and their six input HDMI switcher?  Then again, Samsungs 82 inch QuadHD TV didn’t fail to impress–that QuadHD brings four times the resolution of regular HD.  Eye-witnesses say it’s like looking through a window.  Then again, the biggest TV moment of CES 2008 had to be Mitsubishi’s Laser TV–a new kind of projection-screen TV that replaces a light bulb with three lasers.

Come to think of it, the most (un)amazing thing seen at CES 2008 was probably PumpTopTVs.  Yep, TVs that are mounted atop gas pumps.  No joke–learn more at PumpTopTV.com.