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CES 2017 is now well underway. The TrustedReviews team is on the ground in Las Vegas soaking up the annual tech bonanza, and with most of the main press conferences and announcements now having taken place, there's a glut of news to digest and plenty more to come as we hit the show floor and get hands-on with the latest and greatest gadgets.
CES 2017 NEWS: ALL THE LATEST HIGHLIGHTS
The CES 2017 news has come thick and fast, and there can be little doubt that it was a TV gala this year.
The star of the show has probably been LG, which has shown off a slew of new high-spec sets, not leasts its amazing new LG Signature OLED W7, which the company describes as the “lightest, thinnest, and most beautiful TV on the planet."
It's not as brash a claim as it sounds. Measuring a wafer-thin 2.57mm, it's a true "picture-in-wall" telly, as LG has chosen to describe it, and will come available in 65-inch and 77-inch models running a new version of LG's custom TV software, webOS 3.5 – generally regarded as the best on the market.
Pricing and a release date have yet to be confirmed, though the W7 (pictured below) has already gone on show in select US stores, so hopefully it'll come to the UK sooner rather than later, as found its picture quality to be just as stunning as its design.
Related: LG Signature W7 OLED hands-on review
Don't think your budget will quite stretch to it? There's also a handful of fresh OLEDs with Dolby Atmos sound to ponder, plus LG's new Nano Cell 4K HDR TVs, the SJ9500, SJ8500 and SJ8000, which support all the existing HDR standards – HDR10, Dolby Vision, and Hybrid Log Gamma.
For many consumers though, arguably the most interesting reveal came from Nvidia, which updated its Android-powered Shield TV box with a number of new features.
While specs were thin on the ground, the Shield – Nvidia has got a case of the Apples and wants us to call the refreshed box simply 'the Shield' – now boasts full-fat 4K HDR capabilities.
A 2016 firmware update allowed the device to stream limited content from YouTube in 4K and Netflix in HDR, but now it now offers built-in support for Netflix as well as adding Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, and games streaming (for those with powerful enough PC rigs) to its 4K arsenal.
Just as intriguingly, the new Shield also comes with Google Assistant built in, complete with the usual array of voice-based music control and video playback functionality, plus things like Samsung SmartThings.
There's even an accompanying peripheral – Nvidia Spot. Similar to Amazon's Echo Dot, you plug it in anywhere in your home and it picks up your voice commands.
The new Shield is available to buy immediately and is priced at £190/$199 for the base 16GB model, or £280 for the significantly more capacious 500GB Shield Pro. UK pricing and availability for the Spot has yet to be confirmed, but it's going for $50 a pop in the States.
Back to the Wild West of TV sets and Sony finally joined the OLED party, announcing its first 'proper' OLED TV, the AE1 (A1 in the UK). Quite apart from being an OLED TV, which is awesome, it has a 'unique' way of producing sound. Instead of speakers or soundbar, which is the common way many slim TVs give you sound, the AE1 literally vibrates the TV panel to produce sound.
In other words, the sound comes straight from the screen. Mind blown. (Or picture vibrated? Hmm...)
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As expected, Samsung launched its new class of 'QLED' TVs. There are three new high-end sets in all: the flat Samsung Q9F, curved Q8C, and the Q7, which is available in both flat and curved models.
The QLED range replaces Samsung's SUHD TVs as the firm's flagship line, with the new models set to be available in four sizes: 55, 65, 75 and 88 inches.
Pricing and a release date have yet to be confirmed, but we understand the new QLED sets are likely to start shipping to select regions in March 2017.
Samsung's adoption of QLED technology, however, isn't completely straightforward – check out our updated guide to learn about all the nuances.
Not to be outdone, Panasonic unveiled its second 4K HDR OLED TV, the EZ1002 (pictured below). The Japanese firm says the new set can achieve up to 800 nits of brightness and, as well as supporting the HDR10 and Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) HDR standards, features an Absolute Black Filter and new chip, the Studio Colour HCX2.
The 65-inch version of the Panasonic EZ1002 is set to hit Europe in June 2017, and Panasonic also added a trio of new 4K Blu-ray players to its AV range – as well as officially launching its new flagship CSC, the Lumix GH5 – for good measure.
You can learn more about this new 4K OLED TV by reading our Pansonic EZ1002 hands-on review.
Related: What is Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG)?
TVs aside, it was HTC who arguably made the most noise at CES, significantly bolstering its Vive range. It's not quite 'Vive 2', but there's a slew of new accessories to play with, not least the semi-mythical TPCast-designed add-on that makes your HTC Vive VR experience completely wireless.
The company also launched a bunch of new software, most notably the world's first VR subscription service, which it claims will be "Netflix for virtual reality."
Asus also made a bit of a splash this year, unveiling a pair of smartphones and a new high-end laptop.
The handsets in question are the ZenFone 3 Zoom and ZenFone AR, with the former coming equipped with iPhone 7 Plus-style dual cameras with "optical zoom," and the latter featuring Google Project Tango augmented reality technology.
