End credits for CES in Las Vegas! Connected objects dedicated to health, revolutionary robot vacuum cleaners, armored AI vehicles… the consumer electronics show which took place from January 7 to 10 was also an opportunity for manufacturers to unveil their new solutions for our screens. Larger and smarter televisions, projectors that blend into our interiors… in the coming months, our living rooms will look like real cocoons!
Televisions that recognize their user
After Smart TVs, it's time for televisions powered by artificial intelligence. With Vision AI, Samsung unveiled at CES its new screens equipped with functions previously reserved for certain smartphones: Click to Search to instantly identify what is displayed on the screen; Simultaneous translation to subtitle any program currently being broadcast in the language of your choice; Generative wallpaper to be creative and create images from scratch…
To go a little further, Vision AI will be able to analyze the broadcast content and the television environment and adapt the screen settings in order to optimize viewing quality.
Similar philosophy at LG. In 2025, the manufacturer will introduce an AI touch on its QNED Evo 2025 televisions (40 to 100 inches). And more specifically a button called IA Home on their remote control.
Thanks to this dedicated button, the user can be recognized based on their voice, directed to their profile with dedicated recommendations, but also image and sound settings appropriate to their tastes. This feature will be able to summon an extended language model (LLM) with a long press on the IA Home key for in-depth searches.
LG cites the example of someone planning a trip, who can ask via the microphone on their remote control: “Recommend me films to watch for my trip to Paris”. The AI will then be responsible for offering it to him. Eh, no, it's not justEmily in Paris to watch before packing your bags!
For its part, the manufacturer Hisense has introduced new backlighting technology for the panel of its gigantic Trichroma 116UX television. With a diagonal of 295 cm, it is the largest in the world!
Called RGB Local Dimming and reserved for screens based on mini-LEDs, this technology does without the Quantum Dot color filters, those which were affixed to the white mini-LED diodes. It now allows each diode to emit its own color (red, green, blue) in a natural and pure way. On arrival an even more intense brightness, which can reach 10,000 cd/m2. But also, energy savings of around 30%. The Trichroma 116UX will be launched before the end of the year, for the modest sum of 25,000 euros…
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Projectors that blend into our interiors
Manufacturers also want to capitalize on the public's growing enthusiasm for video projection. Always in search of larger images, consumers are investing more and more in small auxiliary projectors whose quality has greatly improved, or in ultra-short throw projectors, which can replace a television by delivering a gigantic image.
Unable to be satisfied with a simple white wall, Xgimi had the idea of offering an innovative solution, called Ascend.
The concept? That of a 100-inch (2.54 m) motorized ALR (anti-ambient light) screen, hidden in and a piece of furniture including two 60-watt Harman Kardon sound bars, with eight integrated speakers.
The idea here is to offer video projector users a kit to which they can add the projector of their choice. And if possible an Xgimi projector, like the Aura 2, the short throw projector that the manufacturer launched in September 2024. But other brands will be compatible. Currently in prototype form, the Ascend could perhaps be marketed… but for around 3,000 euros (without video projector)!
Among the new projectors unveiled at CES in Las Vegas, we will highlight two models. First, the one called PlayCube, from TCL.
Under Google TV, portable and running on a rechargeable battery, the device is distinguished by its shape, with two rectangular sections as if fitted into one another: the one with the lens pivots on an axis to direct the projection. The second, which incorporates the speakers, serves as a base. Boasting 360 lumens of brightness, the PlayCube can project images up to 120 inches (3 meters) in Full HD.
Another model, fun, even interesting, this time from LG: the Cinebeam PF600U.
Thanks to it, the manufacturer innovates by offering the concept of a 3-in-1 device composed of a Full HD projector (300 lumens), which also serves as a Bluetooth speaker, but also as a nine-color LED floor lamp and five brightness levels.
The assembly, which weighs 7.5 kg (for 290 x 983 x 298 mm) has a head that can be rotated 110°. Incorporating two speakers and two passive radiators, it also allows the projection to be perfectly oriented, with images up to 100 inches (2.54 meters diagonal).
