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Better 3D, voice control, more apps: How CES 2012 will advance the TV

[CNET]

Welcome to CNET’s predictions for the TV hardware category at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  …

More passive 3D, cheaper active glasses with a universal standard, better 3D PQ. Even with passive 3D’s picture quality issues, its cheap glasses and practicality advantages over active mean that more TV makers than just LG, Vizio, and Toshiba will sign on to the passive bandwagon in 2012. Meanwhile active glasses will get cheaper and we’ll hear about the Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative, a universal 3D glasses standard that allows interoperability between different makers’ active specs. Finally I expect 3D picture quality for both active and passive technologies to improve, although I’m doubtful anybody will announce “full-resolution passive” at the show.  …

Bezel-less TVs. …TVs such as this year’s Samsung D7000 have shown the way with an incredibly slim bezel, …

OLED. OLED won’t be a viable technology until about 2015, but this year we’ll see more bendy, wacky, and see-through OLED panels. Samsung and LG …

1080p passive 3D. … I think there will be 1080p passive TVs at the show, where the TV performs the shutter effect…

Read the full story here: http://ces.cnet.com/8301-33379_1-57343563/better-3d-voice-control-more-apps-how-ces-2012-will-advance-the-tv/

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