CES THE SHOW MUST GO ON

“As many companies stuck to their scheduled announcements, plenty of new products thankfully came out of the show”

“Despite the growing anticipation of next-gen panel tech such as Mini LED, LG says there’s plenty of life left in OLED yet”

It would probably be fair to say that CES (Consumer Electronics Show) returned in 2022 with more of a sparkler sizzle than a firework bang. The theory was that the world’s biggest annual technology show would return to Las Vegas in January as an in-person event, following its digital-only affair in 2021. But due to a surge in Omicron cases late last year, several tech giants (Google, Intel, Microsoft and Amazon included) and media outlets (including What Hi-Fi?’s publisher, Future) backed out from physically attending.

This withdrawal by some of the industry’s biggest names made for an understandably quieter show than usual – something of which several photos