11 janvier 2006
Salon de las Vegas: Un nouvea concurrent pour l'Ipod.
Consumer Electronics Show Highlights
By Lawson Wong
January 11, 2006 3:10PM
Winning Best of Show at CES, the Creative Zen Vision:M rocked the house as the next in line to offer a real challenge to the iPod. With a 2.5-inch color screen and all the functions of the new iPod, the 30-GB Vision:M also includes a voice recorder and FM tuner, and comes in a myriad of fun colors. Priced at $330, the Vision:M might very well give the iPod a run for its money.
The Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest electronics event in the world, held in Las Vegas each year, has come and gone. Thousands of company reps, journalists, and even Bill Gates himself stormed Sin City to promote or check out the latest and greatest technology for 2006.
There were keynote speeches by the bigwigs -- including Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google -- and celebrity appearances by the likes of Justin Timberlake, Tom Hanks, and Dan Marino. Huge press parties were regular events up and down the main strip.
This year's CES definitely had a Hollywood feel to it. But, in the end, the show was all about the gadgets, gizmos, and, of course, the latest in the world of tech.
Digital Video
Everyone knew that 2006 would be all about High Def, and the show certainly reflected that. The format wars raged on between the Blu-Ray and HD DVD groups, with notable announcements from both camps on the launch of next-gen players. The $1,000 Samsung BD-1000 will be the first Blu-Ray player to market. It will ship in early spring. Not to be outdone, Toshiba will ship its own HD DVD player, the $500 Toshiba HD-A1, in March.
As evidenced by the new entertainment technology displayed at the show, HDTVs are so last year. This year's televisions are all about Ultra-High-Def that can display a resolution up to 1080p, which offers more clarity than the older 1080i format. For those who aren't videophiles, 1080p simply translates into higher resolution than standard HDTV.
The major TV manufacturers are beginning to promote real 1080p. All the major players had new sets at the show: Pioneer displaying the 50-inch Elite PureVision Pro-FHD1, Sharp showing off the 57-inch 1080p Aquos LC-57D90U, and Samsung pushing its new 56-inch HL0S5679W DLP rear-projection TV, just to name a few.
But what would CES be without the "mine is bigger than yours" bragging rights? Panasonic showed up with its 103-inch 1080p plasma TV, topping Samsung's 102-inch plasma.
Gadgets, Chips, and Phones
Winning Best of Show at CES, the Creative Zen Vision:M rocked the house as the next in line to offer a real challenge to the iPod. With a 2.5-inch color screen and all the functions of the new iPod, the 30-GB Vision:M also includes a voice recorder and FM tuner, and comes in a myriad of fun colors. Priced at $330, the Vision:M might very well give the iPod a run for its money.
At Intel CEO Paul Otellini's keynote, the venerable chipmaker revealed
the new Centrino Duo Mobile, a hardware platform that stars Intel's new
Core Duo chipset. The new technology will power the latest notebooks,
including the Dell Inspiron e1705 and the HP 
Pavilion dv1000.
Everywhere you turned on the show floor, there was another company pimping its latest mobile-communication device. Motorola rolled out its follow-up to the overhyped Rokr with the Rokr E2. This time, the company has ditched Apple's iTunes -- or is that the other way around? -- and has added improvements like faster music transfer, an FM tuner, and a 500-song capacity.
The Treo line got a major upgrade at the show with the new Palm Treo 700w, powered by Windows Mobile 5 and available from Verizon. In addition, the first HSDPA phones (think Cingular's own EVDO-like service) debuted with the Samsung zx20 and the LG CU320.
Digital Cameras
With the Photo Marketing Association convention just around the corner (February 26 to March 1), digital cameras don't usually make a big splash at CES.
However, just as Kodak's Wi-Fi camera stole the show last year, everyone took notice of the company's new dual-lens wonder, the Kodak EasyShare V570. This camera gives you the flexibility of having both a wide-angle lens and a 5x zoom lens in one device.
HP also announced a slew of new digital cameras (seven of them, actually), all of which sport the new one-button function to share and store your images on the Snapfish online photo service.
While not all of this technology is on the market now, it won't be long before you'll find the latest and greatest from CES at your local Circuit City or Best Buy.
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