The Best Of The Best That Came Out Of CES 2020
With CES over another year, we bring you our top picks for all the latest and greatest in the world of consumer electronics, or more specifically in the world of screens.
Best TV
SAMSUNG QLED, BEZEL-LESS 8K
Doing a full-circle back to Samsung, the best TV set at CES has to go to the Japanese brand. Stifling the show-goers as they announced a bezel-less TV, the number one TV sellers in the world showed off their newest screen that has a superthin frame and eliminating the bezel with black matrix. FALD backlighting offers a ‘local power distribution’ that improves peak brightness with its quantuum processor pushing out some serious AI upscaling. 15mm deep, beautiful to behold yet speculations of price being weighty, the Samsung QLED 8K TV is definitely a top-pick for this year’s CES.
Best Concept
ALIENWARE CONCEPT UFO
Coming in tops as the best concept was Alienware’s handheld gaming device, UFO. No sound yet as to when it is actually going to hit the market, if ever, but us at M2 know that when/if it does, it’ll be putting the Nintendo Switch to serious shame. Featuring a library of games that Windows 10 has on show, it’d certainly have the guts to be a really money-worthy investment for buyers. Powered by an Intel 10th generation processor, there’s a lot of speculation with this device.
For starters, with Intel having shown off their first Xe dGPU, there’s talk that that too might feature in the gaming device. On each side of the device, two Joy-Con controllers sit just as you’d expect from a gaming device of this ilk. Easily detachable, and easy to connect, it’ll be like playing a Switch, but (sorry Nintendo lovers) it sort’ve sounds better. As this is a concept, we don’t know the exact timing or price of this device just yet, but the excitement is certainly building.
Best Monitor
SAMSUNG ODYSSEY G9 MONITOR
Visiting the Samsung booth this year was an invitation for guests to experience how they incorporated dynamic futuristic design into an ultrawide 1000R-curvature screen with a 1ms response time, a 240Hz refresh rate and smooth first-person shooter gameplay.
To display how Odyssey is planning on harnessing the future, they’ve designed the lighting of the screen with an Infinity Core Lighting on its back. The idea behind the screen’s design, according to the Odyssey, is to promote immersion. For any gamer, when faced with a 124cm screen and 32:9 ratio, anyone would think that’s immersive enough.