Show & tell 2024 tv preview

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES to its friends) is a very big deal. Having begun life in New York in the 1960s, the trade show now takes place each January in Las Vegas and this year hosted over 4300 exhibitors and 135,000 attendees, including members of the What Hi-Fi? team. Why did we and so many others fly to Sin City at precisely the time that we should probably have been starting Dry January? Because CES is where most of the world’s biggest consumer electronics brands announce their new products for the year ahead.

While hi-fi and home cinema products certainly do feature at CES (as well as watches, phones, drones and plenty more besides), it is generally the TVs that take centre stage, and that was certainly the case this year.

Samsung, LG, Hisense and TCL announced more or less whole new TV ranges for the year ahead while Panasonic, as is its wont, announced just its flagship set (or sets, depending on how you look at it).

What about Philips and Sony? Philips hasn’t announced products at CES for years now, instead choosing to launch its new TVs (and other products) at a separate, European event shortly after. By the time you read this, the announcements may well have been made, so check whathifi.com for the latest on those.

Sony, on the other hand, does have quite a large CES presence, but over the past couple of years it hasn’t used that to announce new TVs (this year it was an electric car, a new PS5 controller and a mixed-reality headset). After a recent visit to the company’s Tokyo HQ, we know that the company has a new, next-generation TV backlight system in the works that will likely feature in the 2024 flagship, but no specific model