Some features that LG is introducing to high-end TVs this year seem to better serve LG’s business interests than those users' needs. Take the new remote. Formerly known as the Magic Remote, LG is calling the 2025 edition the AI Remote.
The new remote doesn’t have a dedicated button for switching input modes, as previous remotes from LG and countless other remotes do.
By overlooking other obviously helpful controls (play/pause, fast forward/rewind, and numbers) while including buttons dedicated to things like LG's free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels and Amazon Alexa, LG missed an opportunity to update its remote in a way centered on how people frequently use TVs.
LG and Samsung are incorporating Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot into 2025 TVs.
Samsung, which is also adding Copilot to some of its smart monitors, said in its announcement that Copilot will help with “personalized content recommendations.” Samsung has also said that Copilot will help its TVs understand strings of commands, like increasing the volume and changing the channel.
Once they completely solve the burn in problem with OLED, assuming they haven't already, I honestly genuinely don't know where they actually are gonna go from here. Even for gaming (VR not withstanding): 4k HDR+ @120hz is already more than what 99% of the market could ever genuinely want (let alone need) and if you genuinely are that top 1% of prosumers you are almost certainly more invested in a dedicated desktop monitor than a giant TV. For movie/tv watching experiences we're already well past what most content can even handle since nearly everything even at the highest budgets in Hollywood is mastered with a 2k digital intermediary before they upscale it and I don't see that changing anytime in the near future. I'm not sure if it did, with how far ahead TV is of the source content, it would even matter.
Nobody needs 8k. I don't even mean most consumers don't need 8k. I mean even most prosumers or video professionals don't need 8k, let alone 16k which the new HDMI 2.2 spec supports. Its a dead end.
Genuinely: whatever level of media consumer you are I don't think you'll be able to tell much difference if any between a panel released this year and a panel 10 years from now. Its all just quality of life updates and gimmicks from here on out.
10k nits is the brightness of the sun (or sky? something like that), and current colorspace is garbage, cyans and greens especially.
(i just want the 5th remaster of the good, the bad and the ugly to sear my eyes and give me a tan irl)
They could go for abandoning RGB in favor of ROYGBIV. Excuse for a fresh wave of remasters too.
Pushing for more and better color is really the next space outside of some really weird innovations that would probably not make it "TV" anymore. Color is simpler but will require a lot of breakthroughs in specific light emission and packing those lights into the TV. Most monitors lack the ability to display violets some yellows and blue greens.
There are also a lot of colors on the dark end of the spectrum that can't be displayed on a monitor at all, and I don't really know what a technology to allow them would even look like.
True unaided holography might do it for me.
I'm a fan of regular 3D too, but I know most people couldn't care less
The next thing is going to be 8mm analogue film home projectors, I'm telling you you can't beat those colors or that motion clarity
This was the only thing I was waiting to hear news on at CES. Dunno if any advancements have been made in that regard yet.
Personally I want some novel display technology that isn’t light blasted directly into my eyeballs. Or more options for interesting display technologies at least.
Laser Phosphor Displays look interesting, functionally like a CRT except it’s a laser striking the phosphor screen instead of electrons. Probably the closest I could ever see to a new production CRT.
Field-emission displays also look interesting, basically a tiny matrix of micro electron guns producing phosphor “pixels” instead of scanning the image one line at time. SED’s are pretty similar, also very cool.
They haven't and they can't. Those who say they have are either misinformed or lying. Wait for microled or stick with IPS.