For its 40th edition, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the annual consumer electronics track, should be strong this year to the topics of mobility, digital home, and especially video high-definition. Evidenced by the presence of the patterns of Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Cisco, John Chambers, or Motorola, Ed Zander, but also the coming of the Disney's CEO, Robert Iger, and CBS, Leslie Moonves. Approximately 150,000 visitors are expected by the 2.700 companies come to present their latest innovations.
This edition will be an opportunity for Microsoft and its ecosystem to promote the public version of the new operating system, Windows Vista, a few days of its official launch on January 30. It will also mark the grand return of IBM after ten years of absence, significant decision of weight increasing consumer electronics in the high-tech, both in terms of the growth potential of innovation. For the supplier of chips for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii, consumer electronics has become an outlet to no longer be overlooked.
Flat panel displays should be one of the major attractions of the 2007 Edition, with new record sizes of plasma or LCD displays. Most interesting innovation, the Korean Group Samsung is expected to submit the first LCD screen capable of different images on both sides of the same display. Hence the possibility of replacing two screens with one, thereby reducing to at least 1 mm thickness of devices equipped with two displays, as for example mobile phones clamshell. "We will launch a production volume in the first half of 2007," said Yun Jin-Hyuk, Samsung Vice President. Canon and Toshiba postponed the presentation of their TV flat screen of 55 inches at base of SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) technology, due to a legal dispute with Nano-Proprietary company.
Formats war: the new
The 40th edition of these should also be an opportunity for each of the defenders of multiply announcements of new generation DVD players Blu - ray and HD-DVD formats. On this market, Sony, Philips, Samsung or Hitachi argue the first standard while NEC, Toshiba, Intel and Microsoft are the promotion of the second. Breaking with a battle which analysts say that it is likely to slow take-off of high-definition video, LG has chosen to present the first drive DVD can read Blu - ray discs and HD-DVD. The apparatus should be marketed in the United States from the spring. Concerned about the effects of the war of the formats, Warner should also disclose his DVD high-definition, called "Total HD", operating with two technologies ("Les Echos" from January 5).
Innovations to connect computers, television, stereo and mobile equipment should also thrive even if many of them will not translate at the commercial level.
Consumer base, the concept of "digital home" slow indeed to become a reality, because of the multiplicity of competing technologies and the potential impact of the concept on the piracy of content. To answer these questions, the American Sonic should unveil this week a system of copy protection called Qflix, which helps burn quite legally a film on a platform of video on demand (VOD), how to try to boost the VOD market while meeting the concerns of the Hollywood studios.
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