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CES was a lot of fun - I was there with
KoreanZ.com interviewing
people for ktlink, a Korean
online technology site and they allowed me to republish my Interviews!
We were sponsored by Samsung, so a lot of the interviews are done at
Samsung!
All of these are 300kbps Windows Media files, only viewable on a broadband
connection (unless you download the whole thing!).
writeups on CES - [
General overview :
Xbox commentary :
MP3 at CES :
Intel keynote ]
Keynotes
- Intel Keynote [146 Mb]
(read my summary)
Intel's keynote, which was rather boring, but included some fun bits with the Blue Man group.
- Palm Keynote [138 Mb]
A cute keynote with designers with outrageous French accents. Funny. Very design-centric to the point of egoism; maybe beyond.
Products
- Altec Lansing [6.4 Mb]
All-digital 4.1 amplifying audio units / speakers, presumably for PCs
(though she never said!). Using the
Apogee chipset.
- Apogee [6.5 Mb]
Manufacturers of multichannel, all digital audio amplification chipsets,
which should allow for cheap, high-quality, multichannel audio in the home
this year. They had a big screen, big sound SSX game going out in front. I picked up the controls and scored a few thousand points to the delight of the onlooking crowd. =) Fun!
- The D'Music MP3 CD player [6.8 Mb]
D'Music shows off their new portable MP3 CD player -
very nice design! Antishock buffer. Handles VBR MP3s. Organizes by
Album and/or directory. Digital out. ID3 tag support. COOL. Also their
solid state MP3 player.
- EnGenius Group [10 Mb]
Whoa. Not your father's cordless phone. Four times the range of a 2.4 GHz phone
with phone-to-phone direct communication - 3000 acre range. Whoa. Get your
phone calls from several blocks away. $350. Dude - ungodly phone.
- First International [14.3 Mb]
Portable MP3 player and PC software to display synchronized lyrics. I
toasted this guy on camera for using a proprietary
format.
- Hy-Tek Manufacturing Co. [5.7 Mb]
6Gb hard drive based portable MP3/WMA/EPAC/AAC player with flash-upgradeable
DSP. Half the size of the Creative Nomad, Litium-ion battery runs 8 hours,
recharges in 3. Unit is $400. Musicmatch front end.
- Lansonic [11.3 Mb]
Very cool - an MP3 music server. Interfaces with a Sony multi-CD jukebox: you
just load up your 50-CD player, hit "record" and walk away - come back in a
bit and the box's drive is full of the properly labelled and tagged albums.
Oh yeah, and it supports SMB, so you can mount it like a local disk in Windows.
- Maverick [14.5 Mb]
{vanessa}
Wireless handsfree kit for cell phones, wireless A/V,
LCD monitors with HDTV tuners built in, computer monitors, and more!
- Microtech International [9.6 Mb]
{vanessa}
Interface units for CompactFlash, SmartMedia, and MultiMedia Card formats.
Cute USB-CompactFlash dongle
that won a CES Design award: just plug in your CompactFlash card into the
dongle and the dongle into your USB port. Voila. $40. Nice. Small.
- Minds @ Work [11.8 Mb]
{vanessa}
A portable storage solution to work with digital cameras: a small hard drive (aka "digital wallet") that you can use to dump pictures. Lets you store more pictures. Vanessa toasted him on camera. Heh.
- Nuon [23 Mb]
An interview that makes it clear what, exactly,
nuon is, and showcases
the new Samsung DVD players that integrate nuon technology.
(Other players use nuon, too.)
- Personal Jukebox [7.4 Mb]
$650 6Gb hard drive based portable MP3, USB connection, custom
jukebox software, cute UI (not really shown in the interview). Yes, the
US name is "Personal Jukebox," but I think the holding company is called
HanGo.
- Samsung: Future Directions [33.8 Mb]
Taking a look at where Samsung is going in the future. Interesting if you
want to know what they're up to.
- Samsung Bluetooth Presentation [12.4 Mb]
A prepared Samsung presenation on Bluetooth. [yawn] Not an interview.
- Samsung CD recorder [1.2 Mb]
Quikie interview covering their CD recorder. Stupid.
- Samsung DV cameras [9.4 Mb]
A showcase of Samsung's array of digital camcorders w/Firewire.
- Samsung DVD players [13.9 Mb]
Samsung's full line of upcoming DVD players - they can play CDs and
can play MP3-encoded CDs! Whoa! Also a brief glimpse at their
upcoming DVD burner, but with no details (he asked me to brush over
it as he didn't know anything about it). Progressive scan DVD players,
too. Cute! Coming out in April.
- Samsung digital camera [11.5 Mb]
Awful, awful interview. A pretty lady without much real knowledge of the
product she was displaying. A half-grade digital camera. I did pretty
poorly on my part, too. Don't watch this. ;) Eck.
- Samsung HDTVs - part 1 of 2 [21 Mb]
Ferrite LCD screens available in June. Big, thin, bright, nice, expensive,
but a hell of a lot cheaper than the existing plasma TVs. No panel degredation,
unlike plasma. Very high quality.
- Samsung HDTVs - part 2 of 2 [25 Mb]
High resolution TVs (tube based & projection based).
One that's .65 dot pitch on a BIG monitor. Under
$3000, 1080i resolution. July release.
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Samsung's Modular TV (Interview) [5 Mb]
Samsung debuts their prototype modular TV. It's not going to be out
for at least a year and a half, but the concept is interesting: a television
whose functionality can be expanded by inserting modular units.
- Samsung Yepp MP3 Player [19.8 Mb]
Samsung's current and future line of MP3 players. The baby Yepp fits on
a necklace - small and cute! The photo Yepp can display music videos and
pictures. (Strange, eh?) SDMI compliant. Yech.
- Samsung Yepp Ministereo [2.9 Mb]
Samsung's mini stereo unit with Yepp and MP3-CD support, coming out by
Christmas. An MP3 CD player expected to come out 4th quarter, too.
- Sensory [11.7 Mb]
{vanessa}
Command & control embedded speech products, text to speech, video lipsyncing.
Voice-password protected phones that kids can use to call their friends
by just saying their name. [Poorly encoded w/lots of skips!]
- Sandisk [13.6 Mb]
{vanessa}
Sandisk makes lots of CompactFlash and MultiMedia cards using flash memory
to store pictures, audio, anything.
- SSI [24 Mb]
Portable 10Gb MP3 hard drive player, supports multiple media (MMC,
CompactFlash, ClickZip, etc.), mounts as an external hard drive in Windows,
radio tuner built in.
- Sunpower Systems [10.5 Mb]
{vanessa}
Solar powered cellular battery recharger - neato!
- Texas Instruments: MP3/AAC chip [7.8 Mb]
TI reveals their low-cost, mass manufactured, next-generation chipset for
doing on-the-fly MP3/AAC/WMA encoding and decoding. The chip handles everything
from flash memory interfaces to USB and even button control and LCD drivers,
all onboard. Basically all you need to make an MP3 player is this chip, some
storage, an LCD, a few buttons, and plastic. First consumer realtime AAC
encoding hardware.
- Top World [4.8 Mb]
Generic MP3 player and Dolby Digital decoder w/speakers for Playstation2
for less than $300.
Extras
Korean Interviews
These interviews are given in Korean (not by me) and may be interesting to
those of you who understand Korean or who enjoy looking at video of cool
electronics without understanding what's going on. =)
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