CES Notebook: Tales from the show floor
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Three hours of show floor wandering covered only a fraction of the trade show's booth space, but yielded a few insights, a few laughs and a decent massage.
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Big HDTVs, next-generation DVD, and plenty of connected devices for your home take center stage as the 2005 CES prepares to open.
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It's being called second only to CES as the most important consumer electronics show in America. BetaNews' Ed Oswald is on the floor of DigitalLife 2007 in New York City, and he's sending back fresh photos as the show goes on. See Palm's Treo Centro 500v, HP's and VoodooPC's Blackbird 002, and the big push for HD DVD.
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Check out Wired's picks for standouts at CES 2008. Some are more pleasant on the eyes than others.
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The BBC News website takes a look at some of the hottest gadgets at the CES fair.
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is once again delivering the opening keynote at CES. Wired News is bringing you up-to-the-minute coverage and photos as the speech unfolds.
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Omnivision conference call notes and forcasts.
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A wealth of digital gear for consumers debuts at CES, including a revamped MediaSmart Receiver, a slim PC, multimedia notebook, storage, and monitors.
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From gold-plated hard drives to eye-popping Google demos, the exhibitor floor at Macworld 2008 is crammed with goodies -- and there are plenty of Mac users elbowing each other for a look at the latest. Wired's continuing coverage of the conference brings you the highlights from the show floor.
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Battle for the living room focuses on next-generation TV technologies, and CES is the launching pad for those battle plans.  Photos: CES gadget glitz
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Get up close and personal with the curiously '80s-stylings of the Fujitsu UMPC
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This yearâs Consumer Electronics Show looked and felt much the same as last yearâs.
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A blizzard of tech gadgets will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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At CES 2008, home entertainment will be dominated by a move towards various forms of wireless connectivity -- and, of course, enormous TVs. This year, LCD technology appears to have definitively won out over plasma and rear-projection, even for very large displays.
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With more than 2,000 consumer electronics companies fighting for the attention of 140,000 attendees at International CES, the competition to get noticed is fierce. Companies will parade their newest and hottest products and promise starry-eyed consumers and journalists imminent release dates for their gadgets, while the more daring keynote speakers give their predictions for the year ahead. Sometimes they&#39;re spot-on -- but other times they&#39;re way off the mark, as this&#160;look back at the class of 2007&#160;shows.The show kicked off in a big way with the&#160;unveiling by Sharp of its monster 108-inch LCD&#160;(liquid crystal display) TV. The set represented the biggest flat-panel TV developed -- a title it still holds today -- and came without a price but with the promise of availability during 2007. But wealthy consumers are still waiting. Sharp said recently that it is still working on plans for a commercial launch for the TV set.There was a lot of noise at the show about both&#160;Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. The battling high-definition video disc camps both claimed an advantage over the other and asserted that 2007 would be break-out year when their respective format left the rival in the dust. A year on and not much has changed. Consumer indifference and confusion over the formats has led many to stay away, while prices have collapsed leaving some wondering if any of the participants will ever be able to make money on either technology.One man who called the status quo was H.G. Lee, president of LG Electronics. Speaking at a news conference where he unveiled a&#160;dual-format machine from LG&#160;he predicted that both formats would be around for a good while longer and observed, &quot;The growth of this exciting new technology and industry is slower than it could be.&quot; So top marks to Lee, but that&#39;s perhaps not much consolation. While he was right about the immediate future of both formats, his company&#39;s relatively expensive dual-format player wasn&#39;t the hit he hoped.LG wasn&#39;t the only company trying to solve the format battle.&#160;Warner Bros. introduced its Total Hi Def disc&#160;that has a Blu-ray Disc layer on one side and an HD DVD layer on the other. The disc generated a lot of excitement because it would insulate consumers from the risks of backing the wrong format -- so it was a disappointment when Warner threw in the towel on the format before the year was out.CES often serves as a launch pad for new technologies. The results were mixed for two of those shown at CES 2007.Samsung came to CES 2007 with&#160;A-VSB, a mobile digital TV broadcasting system&#160;that offers a robust signal and fewer drop-outs to receivers on the move, and comes with a low installation price tag of a few tens of thousands of dollars per TV station. A-VSB also came with an aggressive roll-out schedule that would have put it on-air by the end of 2007 -- but as the year turns there&#39;s still no sign of commercial service.Things weren&#39;t so bad for Sony. It wowed visitors with prototype TVs based on new OLED (organic light emitting diode) screens. With a bright, rich and dynamic picture they were among the highlights of the show. Sony made good on its commercialization plans and put the set on sale in Japan on Dec. 1, where it sold out almost immediately despite the &#165;200,000 price tag. Sony is expected to unveil U.S. launch plans at CES 2008.With CES 2008 only days away now, the class of 2008 are putting the finishing touches to their announcements, predictions, and promises. The show is continuing to grow, so companies will need to make a bigger splash to catch the attention of attendees and media: In a year from now we&#39;ll know who stuck their necks out too far in the race to claim the CES headlines.&#160;
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We didn't see a ton of new cell phones at CES--vendors mostly showed off their holiday-season products--but here are the best of the new and upcoming arrivals.
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If there is one word to describe the annual Consumer Electronics Show, it is "big." Big convention center, big numbers of vendors, big crowds, big hotel bills, even big blisters. But every year, there's at least one company that gives a whole new meaning to the word "big."