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  • DTS Unveils Virtual Surround Technologies
    CES News Las Vegas — DTS added its name to the list of companies offering technologies that deliver multichannel surround sound through two speakers or through stereo headphones.
  • Netgear Helps Create ‘All-Access Home’
    Las Vegas — Professing that customers should be able to use their high-speed broadband Internet as intuitively as one uses home heating and electricity, Netgear’s chairman, CEO and founder Patrick Lo highlighted three key technologies that can be found in some of the 18 new products his company is unveiling during International CES.
  • Negroponte On His One Laptop Per Child Plan
    CES News Las Vegas — Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) and the MIT Media Lab, gave the opening keynote yesterday morning at the 2008 International CES Industry Insider Series session on Technology in Emerging Countries.
  • Buying Groups Get Aggressive In Car CE
    Las Vegas — The $4 billion car entertainment business is quickly reorganizing into buying groups to better compete in an increasingly difficult market place.
  • La Crosse Technology Introduces Weather Direct
    LAS VEGAS — La Crosse Technology, based in the Wisconsin city of the same name, unveiled Weather Direct, a multi-SKU Internet-powered personal weather system during CES.
  • Ford Expanding Sync Car System
    CES News LAS VEGAS — Ford is expanding on its new Sync car A/V system, developed with Microsoft, which is being hailed as a breakthrough product for the OEM new-car market and a competitor to the aftermarket.
  • Blu-ray, New Categories In D&M Launches
    Las Vegas — D&M brands came to International CES with multiple announcements, including ship dates and pricing for Blu-ray Disc players from Denon and Marantz.
  • Citron: Vonage Will Rebound During 2008
    CES News LAS VEGAS — After a year of punishing legal suits, Vonage is entering 2008 pinning its hopes of a line of products and technologies to promote “communication without boundaries,” according to chairman/CEO Jeffrey Citron.
  • Not Easy Being Green
    CES News Las Vegas — Consumer electronic manufacturers and retailers could face unpleasant legislative surprises in regards to recycling mandates in the near future.
  • New Cellphones Target MP3 Users
    CES News LAS VEGAS — Cellphone suppliers Sony Ericsson and Motorola turned out at International CES with new music-focused cellphones, one of which was described by Motorola mobile devices president Stu Reed as “dispelling the myth that mobile phones with music features are inferior to stand-alone audio devices.”

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  • Copps Keeps Pushing for Digital TV Transition Trial Market
    LAS VEGAS -- Federal Communications Commission Democrat Michael Copps hasn’t given up on his proposal to complete the digital TV transition in at least one test market before the national cutoff of analog broadcasting in February 2009.
  • Roberts Snubs Wireless in CES Address
    LAS VEGAS -- A Wall Street analyst Tuesday noted that Comcast CEO Brian Roberts’ address to the consumer electronics industry focused on the company’s existing fiber-optic platform, with no mention of wireless service.
  • Roberts Woos Wall Street, Consumer Electronics Firms
    LAS VEGAS -- In a message aimed at both Wall Street and the consumer electronics industry, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Tuesday detailed his company’s future roadmap for convergence and competition, “Comcast 3.0.”

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Broadcasting & Cable

  • CES 2008: Martin: No Give in DTV Hard Date
    Las Vegas -- FCC chairman Kevin Martin said there is no chance that the nation’s shift to digital television will be delayed, regardless of questions and pleas from various industry executives.
  • CES 2008: Comcast Embarks on Project Infinity
    Las Vegas -- Comcast CEO Brian Roberts announced a major expansion of the cable operator's HD, video-on-demand and online content offerings at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show here Tuesday morning, an initiative broadly referred to as "Project Infinity."
  • CES 2008: Tech Emmys Awarded in Las Vegas
    Las Vegas -- The 59th Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards were presented Monday night at the Venetian Hotel and Casino here.

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Video Business

  • CES: Blu-ray growth forecast healthy
    JAN. 8 | LAS VEGAS—With momentum in the format war on their side, studio members of the Blu-ray Disc Assn. projected healthy format growth this year, according to research provided at a Monday Consumer Electronics Show press conference here. At an NPD Group CES session immediately following, however, analysts talked of ongoing obstacles for Blu-ray to win widespread acceptance.
  • CES: Paid downloads a thing of the past
    JAN. 8 | FROM VARIETY: LAS VEGAS -- After years in which paid downloads saw little traction, Hollywood is focused on ad-supported streaming in 2008.
  • CES: Studios see big swell ahead for online distribution
    JAN. 7| LAS VEGAS—Top digital executives from four major studios on Monday predicted an explosion of professionally produced video content on the Internet in 2008, driven by improved streaming quality, the proliferation of video-capable devices and the media companies’ need to find new business models for their content.

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