What we will be looking for at CES
HP
- MediaSmart TV with Media Center Extender Built in
- MediaSmart Receiver MediaSmart interface and can download movies from CinemaNow (with help from a PC). it also has a complete Windows Media Center Extender interface as well, connecting wirelessly to your home network with all flavors of 802.11 including N, plus it has HDMI and USB jacks.
- Home Server
- Media Vault
Logitech (Harmony Remote) - Harmony One. Bigger buttons!
Mitsubishi - Laser TV
Pioneer - "World's Thinnest Plasma" at just 9mm thick
Panasonic - World's Largest Plasma at 150"
SONY - OLED
DirecTV - What can we expect for 2008. 150 HD channels? Linking DVRs so you can watch in different rooms. HD VOD?
Dish Network - Room to room video sharing? HD VOD? More channels?
Will we see any actual products using Coax or wireless video sharing technologies like MoCA or HANA?
LG and Netflix - Set top box for online movies
Blu Ray and HD DVD:
Will Warner pick a side?
Will Sony, et. al. lower prices?
Some more options for HD-DVD players? Who could possibly make them, "store" brands like Insignia, small companies like OPPO?
What about portable HD-DVD players, in-car HD-DVD players?
Wireless HDTV:
Westinghouse - Wireless HDMI built in, teaming with Pulse~Link
AMIMON and Belkin International join forces to demonstrate top wireless connectivity, WHDI
Sigma's Wireless HDAV streaming is a technology for transporting HD multimedia using standard-based encoding technologies over Ultra-WideBand (UWB) to replace high definition audio/video cables. Sigma's Wireless HDAV reference designs using the Fujitsu H.264-compliant CODEC can enable developers of home networking systems to eliminate cables between a television and set-top box or High-Definition DVD player using wireless HDAV, the first technology solution to support both the H.264 format and UWB based on the WiMedia(R: 43.53, -2.38, -5.18%) standard. Wireless HDAV streams high-definition content from device to device at distances up to 10 meters.
Blu Ray