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Official CES 2006 Thread (AGAIN)

Holy crap that presentation rocked. I wonder if Steve's keynote at Macworld could even stand up to that.
 
we knew rockstar would dev for 360 ages ago:

link

They announced a game for 360 in a 'new brand', so it's not GTA

that's not to say GTA isn't in the works for 360, but just that the logo indicates nothing.
 
jamesinclair said:
Thats it? Its over?

Oh well, it entertained me.
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Yeah, much better than the E3 one, even if they showed just ONE 360 game and talked about multimedia mostly.

The new Media Center intruges me. But I'm waiting to hear Sony offering first ;)
 
Not really gaming related but check out these new portable units XM is showing off. They are awesome.
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These can play MP3s and most importantly, unlike Serius's "portable" unit, you can listen to the radio anywhere.
* Live XM Satellite Radio on the go, in the car, or at home
* Flash memory for MP3 files, WMA files, and XM content; Samsung Helix can store up to 50 hours of XM programming.
* Color display screen
* Easy-to-use interface, which lets users save and delete content, create personal playlists, and find and play back their favorite songs
* XM + Napster feature that allows users to bookmark the names of songs heard on XM, connect the Samsung Helix player to the PC, and purchase the bookmarked tracks instantly from the XM + Napster online service.
* The ability to store XM content by song, by channel, or by scheduled session
* Ability to create unique playlists with a mix of XM content and personal music collection
* Enhanced storage features, which allow more recording sessions at various times, as well a memory buffer for "catching" the beginning of a song
* Customizable stock ticker and sports ticker
* Category list for saving and accessing favorite channels
* TuneSelect, which alerts the listener to a favorite artist or song whenever it is played on any XM channel
* Integrated, wireless FM transmitter for beaming XM to any FM radio frequency.
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Justin said:
Not really gaming related but check out these new portable units XM is showing off. They are awesome.
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These can play MP3s and most importantly, unlike Serius's "portable" unit, you can listen to the radio anywhere.
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Hot shit. I've been waiting on a portable XMradio unit for awhile.
 
Mrbob said:
Hot shit. I've been waiting on a portable XMradio unit for awhile.
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XM has had portable units out for over a year now. You can pick up a Mifi for around 100 bucks now, but these new ones are beyond sexy.
 
Justin said:
XM has had portable units out for over a year now. You can pick up a Mifi for around 100 bucks now, but these new ones are beyond sexy.
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Oh, heh, having been paying much attention then. But if the old ones aren't as sleek as these new ones I doubt I would pick one up anyway. I need these new designs.
 
Warner just joined the BDA. Before they had simply committed to supporting it. Pretty big news actually, as there was some undercurrent of dissatisfaction going around. And then there was the Warner HD-DVD title announcement with no word on Blu-Ray.

http://home.businesswire.com/portal...d=news_view&newsId=20060104006092&newsLang=en

January 04, 2006 11:30 PM US Eastern Timezone

Warner Bros. Joins Blu-ray Disc Association and Will Release Its Films on Next Generation Blu-ray High Definition Optical Media Disc

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2006--Warner Bros. Entertainment and its home entertainment division Warner Home Video, which distributes the largest film library of any studio, today announced it has joined the board of directors of the Blu-ray Disc Association and will release its films on the Blu-ray format.

Warner Home Video will release titles on the Blu-ray format to support the launch of Blu-ray players in North America, Japan and Europe, giving consumers the ability to enjoy a wide range of new releases and selections from Warner Bros' vast library and that of New Line and HBO on the Blu-Ray format.

Blu-ray Disc is a next generation optical disc format developed for high-definition video and high capacity software applications. A single layer Blu-ray Disc will hold up to 25 gigabytes of data and a dual layer Blu-ray Disc will hold up to 50 gigabytes of data. This greater storage capacity enables the Blu-ray Disc to store up to five times the amount of content than is possible with current DVDs.

"Consumers will soon be able to enjoy a large selection of catalogue favorites and contemporary hits from Warner's vast library on the Blu-ray format," said Jim Cardwell, president, Warner Home Video.

With operations in 90 international territories, Warner Home Video commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., Turner Entertainment Company, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.
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sonycowboy said:
Warner just joined the BDA. Before they had simply committed to supporting it. Pretty big news actually, as there was some undercurrent of dissatisfaction going around. And then there was the Warner HD-DVD title announcement with no word on Blu-Ray.

http://home.businesswire.com/portal...d=news_view&newsId=20060104006092&newsLang=en
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uh

http://www.blu-raydisc.com/assets/downloadablefile/051020-13122.pdf

exact same press release except it was released on October 20, 2005 :)
 
Sharp have announced new cool LCD. Ones to look out for. The also will have an Aquos display in Times Square.

The Toshiba HD-DVD players will not output 1080p. But they are the cheapest players.
 
SF2 makes me happy :)

Now all we need is Death Tank and Bomberman and its a done deal
 
Universal's HD-DVD launch list
Universal will release 10 titles timed to coincide to the format's March launch, with plans to continue issuing new and catalog films throughout the year. The first wave of titles include, "Jarhead," "Doom," "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Cinderella Man," "Serenity," "The Bourne Supremacy," "The Chronicles of Riddick," "U-571," "Van Helsing," and "Apollo 13."
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Serenity!

http://sev.prnewswire.com/entertainment/20060104/LAW13705012006-1.html

Here's the complete initial HD-DVD release slate from Warner, along with their announced street dates:

3/28 - Batman Begins, Constantine, Million Dollar Baby, Phantom of the Opera, Twister

4/11 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Last Samurai, Lethal Weapon, Training Day, Unforgiven

4/25 - Goodfellas, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Matrix, Swordfish, Syriana (day and date with regular DVD)

5/9 - Blazing Saddles, Dukes of Hazzard, Full Metal Jacket, Rumor Has It (day and date), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

5/16 - Charlie & Chocolate Factory, The Green Mile: Special Edition, Ocean's Twelve, Troy

Warner has also announced that additional titles they expect to release in 2006 will include Superman Returns and Poseidon (both day and date with standard DVD), as well as TV titles, additional catalog films and more new releases throughout the year.

As part of this announcement, HBO confirmed that The Sopranos and Deadwood are among the TV offerings they expect to debut on HD-DVD later in 2006.
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http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents
 
duderon said:
Klee, where are the SEDs :_(
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Toshiba will have an SED theater at their booth....show starts tomorrow....

http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/rel...earchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=574147



JANUARY 4, 2006 - 13:00 ET

Toshiba Brings Wide Lineup of Latest Advances to CES 2006

LAS VEGAS & TOKYO--(CCNMatthews - Jan 4, 2006) -

Toshiba Corporation today announced the diverse line-up of technologies and systems that the Company will bring to the Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2006, in Las Vegas. At CES, Toshiba will look to tomorrow and demonstrate its total commitment to innovation and excellence in digital products.

HDstyle, gigastyle, Netstyle

Toshiba is in the forefront of developing differentiated digital technologies and know-how that will shape the future and bring excitement and comfort to more affluent lifestyles through three key concepts: HDstyle, gigastyle and Netstyle.

"HDstyle" allows Toshiba to draw on matchless strengths to deliver innovation and new levels of consumer satisfaction in high-definition products. "gigastyle" celebrates advances in HDD miniaturization and capacity and the exciting capabilities HDD bring to home TVs, DVD recorders, and to mobile products, including digital music players. "Netstyle" reflects capabilities in essential networking technologies, DLNA and more, that support Toshiba's progress in network development.

Major Exhibits of New Technologies

HD DVD Home Theater

TV is moving fast toward high definition digital broadcasts, stimulating demand for next generation high definition optical discs. HD DVD meets this demand with compelling picture and sound quality and a new level of interactivity.

In the HD DVD Home Theater at Toshiba booth, visitors can see the immediate future: a demonstration of one of the HD DVD players that Toshiba will launch in the U.S. in March this year. Home theater lovers can look forward to HD DVD movie clips from Hollywood studios on Toshiba's 72-inch, high-definition DLP projection TV.

More on HD DVD: http://www.hddvdprg.com/.

HD DVD AV Notebook PC

Toshiba brings high-definition imaging to portable computing with the development of the world's first notebook PC integrating a slim-type HD DVD drive. Toshiba's AV notebook PC "Qosmio" with HD DVD read drive will show visitors the advanced AV capabilities next generation DVD will bring to computers and computing. A concept model of an external HD DVD drive with USB connection will also be on display.

SED Theater

Experience the superb image quality of SED at the SED theater. The 36-inch screens on displays demonstrate how SED -- the Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display -- combines sleek, flat panel lines with the superior performance of a CRT. Like a CRT, the SED shoots electrons at a phosphor-coated screen to emit light. But SED does it with electron emitters for each individual pixel in the display, not an electron gun shooting at the whole screen. Created through joint development work by Toshiba and Canon, the SED is the next-generation route to high definition images offering high brightness, contrast and color gradation levels, as well as fast video-response performance and low power consumption.

More on SED technologies: http://www3.toshiba.co.jp/ddc/eng/sed/index.htm.

Flatbed 3-D Displays

Toshiba's breakthrough display technology delivers the power of 3-D images on flatbed displays with no need for special glasses. New areas of 3-D application realized by the technology include arcade games, e-learning, simulations of buildings and landscapes -- even 3-D menus in restaurants. Toshiba has already announced 24-inch and 15.4-inch displays, and CES will see the debut of the latest model, a 7.2-inch small-size display that shows how Toshiba is bringing 3-D capabilities to mobile applications.

Detachable Display

Toshiba's detachable display brings a new level of freedom to personal computing, especially tablet computing. The detachable display works as normal notebook display when attached to the PC. Separated, it's light and ultra-portable, and, like a good book, allows the user to curl up in a comfortable place -- and still stay productive. The detachable display is particularly suitable for business meetings: the display alone can be taken to meetings and used to read documents, and even write memos. It is also a strong tool in sales presentation, especially one-on-one explanations. Thanks to the IEEE802.11g wireless connectivity built into the prototype, all on-screen updates are processed and displayed in real time, while input via the stylus are transmitted to the main body.

Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) for Notebook PC

Toshiba's global leadership in fuel cells is embodied in the prototype direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) powering a PORTEGE M300, B5-sized notebook PC. The DMFC runs on a methanol-oxygen fuel mix, and generates and supplies power directly to the PC. With an energy density up to several times that of a typical lithium-ion battery, the DMFC delivers much longer continuous operation.

A methanol fuel cell delivers power most efficiently when the methanol is mixed automatically with water and diluted to the optimum concentration. Without this capability, the fuel cartridge is much too large for use with portable equipment. Toshiba's system uses methanol at a high concentration and dilutes it with the water that is a by-product of the power generation process. The result is that methanol can be stored at a concentration able to produce considerable energy in a fuel cartridge less than one-tenth of the size of those in DMFC systems announced by other companies.

Wireless USB on Ultra Wideband

High-speed wireless streaming is here. Toshiba will demonstrate high speed video transfer between a gigashot HDD video camera equipped with a USB-compatible transmitter and a PC with a USB-compatible receiver. The transmitter and receiver are based on the Ultra Wideband spec, a new wireless access technology offering very high-speed connectivity at data rate of 480Mbps.

Open Cable Uni-directional Receiver (OCUR)

Toshiba's Qosmio AV notebook line has quickly won admiration for its integrated TV tuner and the excellent image quality of the QosmioEngine. Now it can also be used to view digital cable TV with the uni-directional digital cable device. Consumers will be able to watch and record premium and HD digital cable programming on Media Center Qosmio with CableCARD support in the Windows Vista timeframe.

Digital Living Network

As broadband networks and digital devices sweep into the home, Toshiba is in the forefront of linking them seamlessly in interoperable networks. The CES demonstration shows just how easy it can be to share video, audio and pictures, in a three-part demonstration: viewing still images delivered from a PC to a TV; watching programs recorded on a HDD and DVD recorder on a PC or TV; and TV playback of video taken with a gigashot, Toshiba's HDD video camera.

Toshiba supports the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) design guidelines version 1.0, an open standard for home networks of digital consumer products. The demonstration follows DLNA guidelines to achieve a powerful, flexible network that adds to quality of life.

Downloadable digital photographs related to these exhibits can be found at http://www.toshiba.co.jp/info/ces2006/.

Toshiba's major presence at CES will also include exhibits of digital TVs, PCs and other digital products.
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Sony overview:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=626471

I was a bit dissapointed sitting in front of the Playstation 3 section, (1 of 5 or so focus stages around their floor) they did not have a PS3 to show us. Just had some concept display models which many have seen already. There was some footage of games that looked unreal, I mean better than Call of Duty 2 on the XBOX 360, but since it was footage, I'll have to see it playing off a console to believe it.
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doesnt really go into detail about what was shown, but still :/

I spent some time speaking with Andy (Hideyuki) Hata, Manager of Product Marketing (and the only one their that could translate for the Blue Ray engineers there).

Here are the limited details. Will be available this summer (hoping June), will likely come out at a price similar to the Pioneer Elite BD Player ($1,800) range. It will pass 1080P/60 through HDMI (ver 1.3), it has not been decided whether 1080P will pass through component outputs, it will play standard DVDs and upconvert 480i material to 1080P. They have not decided on whether it will play Redbook CDs...the spec is not finalized yet, they also did not have the back of the unit open for viewing (something I hope will change for the show tomorrow).
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Wow. If 80% of the stuff advertized in Vista works the way Microsoft says it will it's going to make alot of people's jobs alot easier...

Please work, please have fewer (than Xp) security problems, please not require a massive PC for most of the features to work.
 
Here is a photo of the Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD player ($499 model)

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According to Toshibas press event, both the HD-A1 and the HD-XA1 will have the same functionality, that is the units will pass 1080i HDMI and upconvert SD to 720p and 1080i. Both models feature built-in multi channel decoders for DD, DD +, DD TrueHD and DTS, DTS-HD
 
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