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Official CES 2006 Thread (AGAIN)

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I'm pretty sure this movie will be big.
 
3) High(er) Definition

Stringer: "In 2006 sales of high-definition television sets will eclipse standard sets. It will put the shift from black and white to color to shame. It know people who would rather watch grass grow in HD than watch a football game in standard definition."

"I'm pleased to announce the today that Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune will be the first game shows available in HD this fall. It doesn't mean the prizes will be any bigger."

(montage of HD TV shows, including Letterman asking Shafer, "I wonder if high definition will help the jokes." )

Greg Gumbel (CBS sportscaster) comes onstage to talk about it.

"With HD you're able to view the entire field of play, instead of the director's cut. When I'm in the booth I can't see the expressions on the players' faces, which HD viewers at home are able to see. When you watch golf you can actually see the texture of the green. Putts that look relatively easy in standard definition acquire a whole new level of complexity in HD. When the ball stops a few inches short of the hole, you know why."

Stringer: "You missed."

Gumbel (sarcastically): "Can I thank you for the positioning today? It's great to follow Ron Howard and Tom Hanks. Now people are wondering, who the hell is *this* guy?"

Stringer; "Yeah, but you have a contract."

Stinger says CBS stations will begin doing news with Sony HD cameras early this year. Shows 40" Bravia flat panel. (Check out the H264 ad at www.bravia-advert.com for which a crew dropped 250,000 superballs down the hills in our cozy San Francisco neighborhood.)

Stringer is explaining the benefits of "BD" aka Blu-ray Disc.

Michael Dell comes onstage to talk about what BD means for the IT industry.

Dell: "Our customers told us they wanted a new standard that would last at least a decade ....
 
Deg said:
I'm pretty sure this movie will be big.
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I mean, come on, It's Ron Howard, stop wasting our time and just give the fucker his Oscar already.

Dell's comments about a decade are going to be loved by this forum...
 
gosh, did they have to use the DaVinci code trash to pimp the e-book reader. Now I feel dirty buying it. Granted, if it's a reasonable price I'll still buy it... but still
 
God Damn it. I thought SED TV were just normal CRT tv's without the excessive bulk. Now I hear that thye have burn in issues that Projection CRT's have.
 
"9:20 Kaz Hirai (prez Sony America) comes out and does LOONNNNG boilerplate clearly designed to give us time to clear the memory stick on our camera for ... yes, a Playstation 3 demo trailer! Pix coming, but they won't do it justice. "

New footage, pls?
 
Kaz came on.


"We're going to be showing a new display later today that shows 1600 vertical lines of resolution. "

9:20 Kaz Hirai (prez Sony America) comes out and does LOONNNNG boilerplate clearly designed to give us time to clear the memory stick on our camera for ... yes, a Playstation 3 demo trailer! Pix coming, but they won't do it justice.
 
"We're going to be showing a new display later today that shows 1600 vertical lines of resolution. "

9:20 Kaz Hirai (prez Sony America) comes out and does LOONNNNG boilerplate clearly designed to give us time to clear the memory stick on our camera for ... yes, a Playstation 3 demo trailer! Pix coming, but they won't do it justice.

4) Digital Citizen

Stringer gives a short EFF-compatible posiitioning speech on marriage of consumer and producer cultures. "Sometimes we misunderstand each other, but after all isn't that the definition of marriage?"

That's it!"


I hope thats not "it", they really didn't give too many details on anything, at least by reading the text.
 
Guy LeDouche said:
I hope thats not "it", they really didn't give too many details on anything, at least by reading the text.
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You mean not too many details on the PS3. :P That February show has been hyped for a reason.
 
Press Release:

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation, delivered the opening keynote today at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In his presentation, entitled "Entertaining the Future," Mr. Stringer spoke about the changing relationship between content, technology and the consumer, and outlined the "four pillars" of e-Entertainment, Digital Cinema, High-er Definition and PlayStation, that are featured throughout the Sony booth at CES, and are key to the future of electronics and entertainment.


In e-Entertainment, Mr. Stringer focused on the increasingly personalized nature of entertainment and the importance of recognizing and accommodating the needs of the individual while providing choice and convenience in the ways that consumers use Sony products. Among other products, Mr. Stringer introduced the new Sony Reader, which will be available this spring, and was joined on stage by Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, to discuss the many benefits of eBook technology for readers, authors and the environment. The Sony Ericsson W810, the latest version of the Walkman(TM) phone, which established the mobile phone as a credible digital music player, was also demonstrated. Following that, Mr. Stringer showcased PlayStation(R) Portable's ability to allow consumers to watch their favorite television programs any time, from anywhere in the world using Sony's Location Free(R) technology.


In a discussion of Digital Cinema, Mr. Stringer detailed how Sony's digital cinema equipment is being used by leading directors around the world to redefine the way consumers enjoy the motion picture experience. Brain Grazer, producer of the highly anticipated film The Da Vinci Code, along with the film's director, Ron Howard, and Academy Award-winning actor, Tom Hanks, joined Mr. Stringer on stage to discuss how the film is progressing and the technological advancements in high-definition filmmaking and projection systems that are keeping the theater-going experience alive and thriving. Sony also debuted a scene from its upcoming release of The Da Vinci Code.


Beyond Digital Cinema, Mr. Stringer emphasized that Sony is well- positioned to succeed in the transition to High-er Definition - both inside and out of the home.


"The transition to HD is especially important to Sony, because from film production in Hollywood to television viewing at home, Sony has connected every link in the HD chain," he said. "With professional equipment, camcorders, television displays, Blu-ray Disc players, packaged media and more, no one is better positioned to lead the way to full high definition. That's why we say Sony is High-er Definition."


In addition to highlighting Sony's HD equipment and award-winning Grand WEGA(R) and BRAVIA(TM) televisions, Mr. Stringer talked about the rapid growth and proliferation of HD content. After announcing that Sony Entertainment Television's Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune -- the two most successful game shows in television history -- will be the first game shows available in HD this fall, he was joined onstage by CBS sports anchor Greg Gumbel, who discussed the ways in which sports programming in HD is changing the nature of the viewing experience. Michael Dell, Chairman of Dell Inc., made a special appearance to discuss the importance of the Blu-ray disc format for both the consumer electronics and IT industries.


In the last of the four pillars, Kaz Hirai, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, joined Mr. Stringer to discuss how PLAYSTATION(R) 3 will build on the incredible success of the PlayStation(R) 2, which experienced a 10.5% year-over-year gain in holiday sales and was the only platform in the videogame industry with positive growth, and on the success of the PlayStation(R) Portable (PSP(R)). Mr. Hirai also emphasized the importance of the Cell processor, which is designed to support broadband consumer applications and HD video streams and will be at the heart of the PLAYSTATION 3, scheduled to launch later this year. By utilizing Blu-ray, PLAYSTATION 3 will also provide the large storage capacity required by game creators to achieve real-time gameplay mechanics in a true HD world.
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RidgeCityFM said:
no ps3?
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"9:20 Kaz Hirai (prez Sony America) comes out and does LOONNNNG boilerplate clearly designed to give us time to clear the memory stick on our camera for ... yes, a Playstation 3 demo trailer! Pix coming, but they won't do it justice."

You wanted more than that?
 
Consumer Electronics Show 2006 Video whets appetite, a bit


By Fuad Abazovic in Las Vegas:
SONY held rather crowded press conference here in Las Vegas, during which it managed to escape the question of when we are going to see the Playstation 3.
The guys did talk about brilliant marchitectural displays, new Hollywood digital cameras, home HD camcorders that can record on Hard drives or DVD, steady-shot photo cameras and a PSP but it didn't even mention its new Playstation 3 business.

The assembled hackery was treated to a short racing game movie with some interesting graphics of a quality that was far from ground-breaking. It featured cars with mud on their windshields and the mud was flying all over from the tyres. You could break the windows and you could damage the car when you hit your rivals or trees.

A nicely-modelled 3-D character left us pondering the potential of a P3. But the silence over its likely appearance would have been noticed by Pete Townshend. µ
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http://theinquirer.net/?article=28755
 
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Thats it. Now go cry that there was no new Ps3 news.
The assembled hackery was treated to a short racing game movie with some interesting graphics of a quality that was far from ground-breaking. It featured cars with mud on their windshields and the mud was flying all over from the tyres. You could break the windows and you could damage the car when you hit your rivals or trees.
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Motorvision.
 
mr_nothin said:
Hmmmm, are you sure?
It looks more like a Gran Turismo Vision/5 trailer to me
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Unless Polyphony has changed the series alot, there aren't any trees on a course for your car to hit. That pic posted is definetly VGT though, its the Nurburgring.
 
mr_nothin said:
Hmmmm, are you sure?
It looks more like a Gran Turismo Vision/5 trailer to me
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They may have shown both?

A sneak-peek report from their booth yesterday mentioned footage, including those two. Although I don't know if they showed all that stuff at this keynote, or just one game.
 
"some interesting graphics of a quality that was far from ground-breaking"

MotorStorm looked pretty groundbreaking? did it not?

GT5: Vision FTW
 
SolidSnakex said:
Unless Polyphony has changed the series alot, there aren't any trees on a course for your car to hit. That pic posted is definetly VGT though, its the Nurburgring.
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Rally mode?
...hehe
Im just nit picking now...i accept my defeat :lol
 
He's probably talking about Motor Storm trailer (*that's* not groundbreaking for him?). Probably all old trailers though.
 
There could be new stuff in the VGT trailer. The E3 trailer was just a high res version of GT4, the TGS trailer featured the first 2 real GT5 cars, HDR, first perosn view, and 3D rims on the older cars to show off the lighting.
 
SolidSnakex said:
There could be new stuff in the VGT trailer. The E3 trailer was just a high res version of GT4, the TGS trailer featured the first 2 real GT5 cars, HDR, first perosn view, and 3D rims on the older cars to show off the lighting.
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Yes. We need confirmation if anything new was shown.
 
hd-dvd has a lot more support than I had originally thought, interesting movie selection. a lot of really good ones there
 
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