LCDs and Plasmas are nice today, but something better could be just around the corner: OLED. Sony is hoping to bring OLED displays into the mainstream market sooner rather than later and by investing $204 million into larger panels; these are great first steps. Hopefully we’ll be seeing screens larger than 11 inches in production.
I’m personally excited for this technology and to see any company invest money into its development is always a plus.
In other news, Sony is selling off their Cell chip production facilities to Toshiba. Toshiba will be taking over the Cell processor and RSX chip manufacturing for both the PlayStation 3 and other products which include Toshiba’s.
Robots. Will they serve us or will we serve them? I am not sure about the future, but judging by today’s Mahalo Daily, they are serving us today in a very unimpressive fashion.
More high definition format war “news” today. HBO reassured the public that they are going Blu-ray. (Band of Brothers in HD, please!) Paramount is staying on the HD DVD course despite reports. What about Universal Studios? Universal Studios is being hush hush about their future. As for Microsoft? They could support Blu-ray or not.
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Day 3 of CES 2008 was filled with fewer bombshells, but it did have its fair share of highlights like the Optimus Maximus keyboard (thanks to Engadget for the picture above) which we have been hearing about for years. $460 for the lowest model? Not cheap, but it does feature OLEDs though!
New Line Cinema detailed their transition to Blu-ray with very little details. They are going Blu (effectively immediately), but no titles will be announced at CES 2008. Bummer.
Not a fan of Blu-ray or HD-DVD? How about streaming 1080p movies with 7.1 channels worth of lossless audio via satellite? Sounds too good to be true, but XstreamHD promises this. Why shouldn’t we believe them? They’re name consists of a pun and the letter “X”. Full of win? One can hope. Pictures of the required hardware can be found at Engadget.
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I recall a time when the Consumer Electronics Show was more of a tradeshow about gadgets, huge LCDs, computer technology and other new technologies, such as this high definition wireless solution. I started following the show thanks to all the new computer oriented products companies would announce and display; it was a nice preview of the year to come computer technology wise.
Since the inceptions of the high def war and the next-gen console war, CES’ entertainment section slowly became the highlight of the show for me.
With CES 2008 is just a few days away (starts January 7th), I found it hard to miss all the buzz surrounding it. Here’s a rundown of some of the noteworthy:
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