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AI was inescapable atCES 2025.

Unsurprisingly, TVs were right in the mix.

Samsung Vision AI CES 2025 keynote address

Can AI make your TV better?

I do believe it’s possible for AI to make a TV better.

Its successfulness is content-dependent and requires some restraint in its implementation, but the benefits are there.

Nvidia AI upscaling.

I’ve seen AI-driven processing do an impressive job upscaling 4K content to 8K, for instance.

In some circumstances, a feature like that can be valuable to some.

I do believe it’s possible for AI to make a TV better.

A Samsung TV on display at CES 2025. It is showcasing the AI-based Samsung Food software feature, which is correctly identifying a lasagna dish on a dinner table in the scripted content on screen. There is a smiling elderly woman cutting the lasagna, and a software-based pop-up on the screen detailing a list of lasagna recipes.

The applications outlined above are perfect examples of this.

Access to LG’s Generative Image Gallery means that users can now create custom image backgrounds on webOS.

Weird, AI-generated slop?

LG G5 OLED at CES 2025

That’s not affectionate that’s just something I don’t want to look at.

But what does that mean?

It’s a way I relate to those around me.

Sony Bravia 5 Mini-LED TV on wall in living room

Mine doesn’t, nor should it.

Perhaps you watch TV differently than I do.

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Samsung S95F OLED TV

HDMI input

LG C5 OLED

Samsung S95F with 3D effect

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Recipes in the food section of Apple News Plus on an iPhone

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

Green skull on smartphone screen.