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• Consumer Electronics Show 2007

  Consumer Electronics Show 2007 One Laptop Per Child The green and white OLPC laptops were seen at the Marvell booth. Marvell makes the wireless chips for the project. Shuttle Goes Big With a Tower Computer - Slide Show Playstation 3 hard to find on CES show floor You Let Me Down, Bill - Keynote Analysis Eat this, Quad FX: Here's an 8-core desktop! Join our discussion on this topic More Articles January 11, 2007 HD DVD versus Blu-ray - The porn industry says HD DVD The $100 laptop in detail - Slideshow Microsoft says Crysis will be Vista's Halo January 10, 2007 Need to port VHS to DVD or casettes to MP3? Hands on with Vista: An OS X clone or the best Windows yet? Your cellphone can re-route you around traffic jams TI Has Its Cake and Eats It With DLP and LED Displays The Unusual Stuff TI Introduces Slim LED-Backlit DLP RPTV With 100,000:1 Contrast Ratio January 9, 2007 Warner announces HD DVD - Blu-ray combo disc The Edge handheld - Not so true wireless Internet Belkin connects one DVI monitor to two computers Harman Kardon announces GPS/PMP combo TomTom to offer portable GPS device to the automotive industry Dell wants more internet bandwidth Dell goes Green, introduces optional plant a tree purchase option Dell intros 3.2 GHz quad-core enthusiast PC Microsoft and Ford promise to sync your life CarMD finds the problem, then tells you what parts and labor should cost Aliph's Jawbone headset and Noise Shield sound too good to be true iRecord - Just another frivolous iPod add-on or a valuable accessory? Ritek showcasing writable HD DVD, Blu-ray discs Sony shows OLED TV prototypes Toshiba offering four embedded NAND flash solutions Eat This, Quad FX: Here's An 8-core Desktop! Shuttle Goes Big With a Tower Computer - Slide Show Westinghouse Shows Off The Quad HDTV January 8, 2007 Roadmaster shows programmable license plate frame Playstation 3 hard to find on CES show floor DirecTV to offer 100+ HD channels by the end of the year Windows Vista gets an updated fingerprint reader Microsoft intros fancy gaming keyboard Microsoft, Broadcom aim to lower cost of HD DVD players VoodooPC introduces new Envy gaming notebook iRobot unveils programmable robot Motorola aims to raise the level of personalization for mobile devices Motorola, Sprint-Nextel to bring Wimax to Chicago Intel rolls out new quad-core processor Core 2 Quad Q6600 MSN pairs up with Garmin to offer local data on GPS devices Yahoo launches Go for Mobile 2.0 on Motorola RAZR's Lensbabies bend SLR lenses EA Mobile comes of age, Tetris still addictive Making use of those cool new cell phone features: ShoZu Hitachi touts HDD/DVD hybrid camcorder and a $2500 50" LCD Webaroo promises free offline browsing Asus demoing UWB HDMI connection system D-Link puts draft 11n in new networked media player First horseman of apocalypse in Las Vegas Ruckus Wireless intros 'Video-Grade' USB wireless adapter OQO releases model 02 UMPC HD DVD slams Blu-ray, talks innovation Netgear and BitTorrent team up on high-definition content delivery PC users not hungry for terabyte drives ViewSonic highlights widescreen LCD monitors and iPod front projector Microsoft to showcase remote-controlled USB handsets and UMPCs You let me down, Bill - keynote analysis Bill Gates Unleashes Windows Home Server AMD unleashes second generation of Live! platform Sony plans next Blu-ray attack at HD DVD Sony hits one million shipped PS3s, hints at new features AOL Video to run on Sony's TVs January 7, 2007 Palm launches Treo 750 smartphone Samsung launches UMPC with flash hard drive JVC first to offer HD HDD videocam Battle of the 108"ers Philips AmBX to bring light, wind and good vibrations to gamers Philips goes ambi-extreme LG puts "aggressive" sticker on 71" plasma TV VoodooPC to show off AMD's Quad FX with 18 ft. screens Toshiba to offer 1080p HD DVD player for $600 Keep the bad guys away with full disk encryption Netgear refreshes Zetera-based NAS New HD media player from Netgear Netgear intros standalone Skype / PSTN DECT phone LG to roll out dual-format Blu-ray/HD DVD player in Q1 LG jumps into iPod accessory land with ultra-cool deck Nobint Falcon showcases 3D touch device - think a mouse, only better Even Duracell is in the iPod accessory market now A full keyboard for a normal sized phone Shure tries to be more consumer friendly with sane-priced quality earphones 3D gaming, surround sound, and waterproof accessories Linksys gets into the consumer NAS game Slideshow: Terabyte, hybrid HDD and beyond Want wireless Internet access at CES? Then pay $400 Growing pains at the Consumer Electronics Show First live demo of mobile Wimax January 6, 2007 LG more serious about 1080p MSI rings in second wave of AMD Live! entertainment PCs MSI to release second notebook with crystal inlays The battle for the digital home - analyst opinion January 5, 2007 A preview of what you can expect to see on the showfloor Toshiba to ship HD DVD writer in February Hitachi announces 1 TB hard drive Corel updates DVD Copy 5 with iPod, Vista support Proton to introduce two more full HDTVs BenQ to debut new DLP projectors Lacie announces $1150 Blu-ray burner January 4, 2007 Sandisk surprises with Flash hard drive announcement Hybrid hard drives promoted through industry alliance Logitech integrates computer speakers with iPod dock LG to unveil combo Blu-ray - HD DVD player MSI to showcase AMD Live! systems Samsung develops double-sided LCD A floating iPod sound system for your swimming pool Toshiba to show fuel cell-powered MP3 player Toshiba to debut external USB hard drive January 3, 2007 XM to go beyond radio with weather, video MSI to showcase medical notebook Lexar upgrades Jumpdrives for Windows Vista Westinghouse to show Quad HDTV January 2, 2007 Patriot to demonstrate 1302 MHz memory modules Fujitsu to demo H.264 IC for HD recording Showtime to launch video download service for Windows Vista Autonet announces Internet access for cars Vutec to show off Tri-Plex screen

• Given that there is only one monitor on the market supporting Mini DisplayPort, we are disappointed that Apple chose not to include any dongles with the $1,299 MacBook or $1,999 MacBook Pro. Even when playing Devil’s Advocate to understand Apple’s strategy by saying that the lack of a dongle will do more to promote Mini DisplayPort as a real standard, the lack of a VGA dongle is inexcusable given that it’s still the primary manner in which notebooks are connected to front projectors.  The Mini DisplayPort to single-link DVI adapter is required for attaching a MacBook to a standard LCD monitor or, when used with a DVI-to-HDMI adapter, for attaching a MacBook to a HDTV. The dual-link DVI adapter requires USB power and it seems that the dual link DVI adapter is including additional circuitry to allow 2560x1600 resolutions to be delivered. We haven’t seen one of these adapters in our labs yet, but we suspect that the adapter is an active device that converts Dual Link DVI data encapsulated in the DisplayPort stream into a standard Dual-Link DVI output rather than a simple pin converter. The lack of a Mini DisplayPort to conventional DisplayPort adapter is also frustrating for most. We suspect Apple elected not to release a DisplayPort adapter to increase adoption of their Mini DisplayPort standard. If Apple shipped every MacBook with a Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapter, then monitor manufacturers would have no incentive to consider developing Mini DisplayPort only devices or cables when it would only mean more work and effort to license the Apple standard. HDCP HDCP is a feature of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro, and this is a feature that I actually welcome. HDCP is a content protection system that can be applied to DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort. While I would be the first to say that a DRM-free world is the best option, the reality is that HDCP was the best compromise that Hollywood and the technology industry could come to.  HDCP is an artificial requirement. There’s no reason why Blu-ray or iTunes or other Content-on-Demand requires content protection. But Hollywood issued a simple ultimatum to the consumer electronics world: you can continue to offer DVD quality movies under the current technology, but if you want us to release high-definition versions of our movies to the home, with quality rivaling that of the original digital studio master, we will demand HDCP. As a consumer, you have three choices. You can stick with DVD and ignore the HDCP requirement, you can go for high-definition content and agree to participate in the HDCP scheme, or you can take a stand and become your own movie studio and make your own high-def movies and release them without HDCP. By including HDCP, the MacBook joins the club of ensuring continued support from Hollywood while opening the door for Blu-ray in the future. While Hollywood studios continue to produce the majority of films that people enjoy, they will continue to dictate the terms with which their films can be used.

• CES 2007: Sony plans next Blu-ray attack at HD DVD

  Las Vegas (NV) - If there was one underlying theme at Sony's CES press conference today, it was that Sony desperately asks for the designation as the market leader in high definition. In addition to touting the format that it helped create, Blu-ray, Sony had a lot to say about 1080p. In the next few years, it expects most of its HDTVs to have full (1080p, 1920x1080 progressive) HD resolution, headlined by today's announcement of a new Bravia 70" LCD HDTV with 1080p, the biggest LCD TV ever made by Sony. With regard to Blu-ray, Sony was cautious about not mentioning HD DVD, yet still made claims that showed it plans another attack to win the format war. New Blu-ray computers on display By the middle of the year, it plans to have a large number of Vaio laptops, digital media centers, and computer drives that support BD, which Sony says makes it a more universal format, especially with the PS3 backing it up as well. Skewing a statistic a little bit in its favor, Sony says that it is winning the next-generation DVD war because more than one million BD players have been shipped. This of course counts in the PS3, which makes up a huge majority of that number. The Blu-ray/HD DVD competition is still too much in its infancy to really reach the level of a heated battle, but it will still be something to watch this week once CES gets fully underway.