CES Convention: Advances television stand - Brownsville Herald

LAS VEGAS – The Japanese electronics maker Sharp created a television that is placed between the expensive 4K and HD version that was presented Monday at the International CES convention in Las Vegas.

Your new Quattron technology

+ doubles the vertical resolution of a high definition device to cut the current pixels in half. While using a mathematical formula to double the horizontal resolution for everything except some parts of an image.

According to Sharp, this gives the Quattron TVs + 16 million subpixels compared to its Quattron 8 million and 6 million series of HD. It is a midpoint before a 4K television, also known as “Ultra HD” which has 24 million subpixels.

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Quattron TVs can receive signals to 4K. A 70-inch model will be released in about $ 3,200.

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improves resolution televisions also your ability to connect to internet.

Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, include your software in TV sets with internet, starting Panasonic models.

Firefox OS is the latest system included in so-called smart TVs, which allow users to watch videos on the internet and interact with friends online.

Following the announcement of Mozilla and similar companies like Roku and LG at CES will be more options of Smart TVs to consumers, in contrast to the smartphone market where Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android system dominates the market.

But the new wave of competing operating systems on television make it harder to create applications for services like Hulu and Netflix.

Meanwhile the Korean LG has entered the market of sport and portable devices.

The company created a headset that measure heart rate from inside the ears. The headset is connected to a small medallion that syncs with a smartphone using Bluetooth.

LG Corp. also created a wristband that has more features than the SE Nike FuelBand filed November. LG’s version has an organic light emitting diode and allows users to control your music, accept calls and text message alerts. The FuelBand is Nike Inc. created messages with little dots of light that has more limited capabilities, related only to the exercise.

LG did not disclose details of its price and release date.