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Title: CES in Las Vegas
Post by: JimH on January 07, 2008, 05:49:26 pm

Peter Sohal and I will be cruising the floors at the convention center in Las Vegas the next three days.  Let us know if there's anything you'd like a picture of.

If you're not familiar with CES, try google or this link at CNET (http://ces.cnet.com/).  It's a BIG show of electronic toys.

Title: Re: CES in Las Vegas
Post by: BullishDad on January 07, 2008, 08:21:37 pm

Have a great time at the show. 

How about a picture of someone in front of the 150 inch Panansonic Plasma TV?  Something tells me you can't miss it.

Better yet, would be a picture of the set with MC12 running on it!  ;D

Title: Re: CES in Las Vegas
Post by: JimH on January 10, 2008, 08:29:17 am

Day 2 pictures (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=44419.0).  Day 1 was a blur (no pictures).

Title: Re: CES in Las Vegas
Post by: glynor on January 10, 2008, 09:18:12 am

Have a great time (I know you will)! I'm working on planning my April trip again now (to the other big show)...

Title: Re: CES in Las Vegas
Post by: benn600 on January 10, 2008, 10:37:16 am

I think theater view on the 150" TV would be in line.  Sneak behind and use your flash drive to install MC on the PC running it.  Is it sitting on the floor?  Wonder how much it weighs?

Title: Re: CES in Las Vegas
Post by: JimH on January 11, 2008, 10:28:13 am

Quote from: BullishDad on January 07, 2008, 08:21:37 pm

How about a picture of someone in front of the 150 inch Panansonic Plasma TV?  Something tells me you can't miss it.

There's a picture of the TV here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=44439.0

The second picture is of the people looking at it.

I thought the Sony OLED TVs were more interesting.  They're in the same group of pictures.

Other pictures are here:

Vehicles:
http://pix01.com/jI@I62S

Mobile Internet Devices:
http://pix01.com/eI@FF3i

Title: Re: CES in Las Vegas
Post by: glynor on January 11, 2008, 11:09:58 am

OLEDs are very interesting, but the technology hasn't been progressing very well.  I wouldn't hold my breath that they'll be down to the consumer market anytime soon.  Toshiba just cancelled all of their OLED plans, citing higher-than-forecast manufacturing cost.  More here: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071214-toshiba-puts-oled-television-production-on-hold.html

Sony said at the last CES that they'd have a 27" released, which never happened... We're still stuck with only the 11", in only Japan, and it sells for an absurdly high price.

Title: Re: CES in Las Vegas
Post by: JimH on January 11, 2008, 03:07:48 pm

The web site says they're available now at the Sony stores (http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=8198552921644539854) in the U.S.

Title: Re: CES in Las Vegas
Post by: BullishDad on January 11, 2008, 10:36:49 pm

Thanks Jim, for posting the picture of the 150" TV.  I read somewhere that the resolution is 4x 1080P.  It must be an impressive sight :o