Thread: What's New and cool at CES

Originally Posted by ripnbigc

At first I was suprised you're still up. but it is Vegas after all!

I had some liquid supplements to keep me awake. A good friend named Jack.

Heck, after I posted that I went back to the casino, and won $100.

have you seen this real guitar hero by disney. where you use a real guitar and actually learn how to play the song as you play the game? watched a video on it this morning. looks pretty cool.

Coolest thing I've seen this year (outside of the 922 Dish receiver) is the 6mm thin LED TV from Samsung.

I couldn't believe it, the thing is flat out tiny. Except the screen size - 83"

Hard to believe.

Originally Posted by jlhugh

have you seen this real guitar hero by disney. where you use a real guitar and actually learn how to play the song as you play the game? watched a video on it this morning. looks pretty cool.

I missed that. Would have liked to see it, but I don't even have any recollection of a Disney booth. But the place is so large it is impossible to see everything.

A new software that will be definitly on my list to buy as soon as it is released is the image video stabilization and enhancement software.
Most of you have seen crime investigation shows where they enhance fuzzy video from a security camera or cell phone camera and zoom in on an area, blow it up then clarify it to read a license plate number off the reflection of another car's polished paint. Well it is now available, both commercial version which is quite expensive and a low end consumer version. The low end only has 2x zoom while the expensive version is 16x. This product is amazing. It does require a high end computer to process the video in a reasonable time period but works just like it is shows on CSI, and other crime investigation shows.

My notes from CES

I had a chance to use the Sony motion sensor - works (it's mounted on top of display) like the ones you see on CSI show, fun to use but I don't know what retail cost will be. I also liked Panasonic remote that shows on screen with a hand held unit - works somewhat like i-touch interface (i.e. expend item, change item by finger motion on hand held unit.

For TVs thin and power saving features seem to be hot, also LEDs. Samsung had them in 600, 700, 800 series along side LCDs 600, 700, 800 series. They also had side by side 60, 120, 240 hz sets. With all the TVs each manufacture had I lost track. Not many hand outs available. Each upgrade looks a little better than the prior one but at some point ....... I did not see but heard about a 480 Hz TV.

Intel had Gateway and Dell I7 chip units (HP said wait until April for theirs). For the editing program I tried I got noticeable faster graphics generation and video editing (no surprise) than the quads chip units. But as prices are not quoted so I don't know the cost - but I really want the I7 chip for my video editing.

Saturday, I found a must have gadget in a little booth at the Sands. It's the World's smallest camcorder.

It records video in DV AVI format 29.97 fps, 640x480. Stores it on an SD Micro chip 2Gb (comes with) up to 8Gb size. The sound is mono. Asiode from micro SD storage, it can be connected via live USB 2.0 cable to your laptop with included software like a web cam. The quality is pretty good in low light level

I am trying to decide what the coolest thing I saw was - and it wasn't a gadget; instead it was just seeing a beta of some actual BD-Live content that extends the BD player from far beyond a player. I wishI hadsomething coolerto say I saw,but I just didn't.