Every twelvemonth I try out to make guesses on what ’s on the horizon for the coming in video and audio frequency . Some guess are obvious ones , others have been trends that have been slowly issue forth to protuberance over the retiring few years and not all of them stop up being veracious .
This year feel harder than the last few to get a mother wit of what ’s coming . Chip shortages have pretend a large number of company , the cost - of - living crisis has had an effect too , along with high levels of inflation .
We may not see monumental advances in video and audio , but just enough to keep things rolling .
More QD-OLED
As a demonstration of what it can do , QD - OLEDcan be considered a success . Is it a sales success ? I do n’t have the solvent to that query , but Samsung is forging ahead with improvements and different sizes .
The departure between it and OLED were n’t as overstated as the pre - release hoopla would have us believe . The levels of light between the two technologies were very similar , but second - propagation models could ( and most likely should ) lead to an increment in performance .
And we have the suspiciousness that more firebrand might want to have a closer look at QD - OLED . There is a feeling that LG ’s authorization in theOLED marketand its ability to be a loss leader in the market ( given it supplies panel to itself , effectively ) is something that other idiot box brand are not too fond of .
Panasonic was rumoured to be interested in grow a first gen QD - OLED . Could it announce one for 2023 ? And what about Philips , who ’ve also dabbled inMini - LEDas well , might they have plan for a QD - OLED ? We think LG is going to front more intense competition as the class goes on .
Spatial audio to take off
Everyone seems to be getting in on the ground floor with 3D spatial sound recording , and it looks as if the only way is up … if customers record interest in it , that is .
Dolby Atmoswas the first to really plain thing off in the immersive distance , withDTS : Xfollowing , but it ’s with medicine where we suppose we will see the big gains . Dolby Atmos is now well - plant in the home cinema grocery , with damage for soundbars knock off to affordable grade . But spacial audio for euphony seems to be on the up .
The number of presentations and showcases we advert that center around spatial sound recording music was more than in recent old age . The fully grown breakthrough seemed to be Apple’sSpatial Audio ; not in terms of being the first to do so , but by bringing it to one of the with child music streaming platform usable in Apple Music , increasing spacial sound ’s availability massively .
Then there ’s Sony’s360 Reality Audio , Dolby Atmos Musicbeing bring by website such as On Air and THX Spatial Audio ( usable on Qobuz ) , just to name a few .
Head - tracking is usable with headphones such as LG’sUT90Qor Yamaha’sYH - L700Aheadphones . Immersive audio frequency is still not perfect , not every cut is suited to it , but it does appear to be the new frontier that medicine is beginning to search .
Premium TVs to get an amped-up performance
LG has held an vantage with its processing cow chip that has allowed it to accommodate features such as 4K/120Hz and Dolby Vision IQ with Precision as they arrive on the mart . Samsung has offer a similar set of feature article , but notably only for its telecasting that have an extraneous One Connect box seat for the processor and connections .
television brand other than LG have discover it hard to squeeze modern features into their telly without some form of compromise , but the new MediaTek Pentonic 700 potato chip should see that start to interchange . This micro chip stomach a better 4K/120Hz performance , Dolby Vision IQwith Precision Detail , HDR10 + Adaptive Gaming , Wi - Fi 7and the latest video standards . It is a big boost in processing mightiness .
And so , as I write about in a previousSound & Vision column , it should even the playing field between the various TV brands . The question is which marque will be follow up this chip . We ’ll be come up out before long enough atCES 2023 .
