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CES 2012 Press Day: Sharp
Al Griffin  |  Jan 10, 2012

Sharp kicked off the company’s 100th year with a slew of impressive CES product announcements. What you need to know is that the company is now all about really big screens — 60 inch or larger LED models to be exact.

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CES 2012 Press Day: Dish Network
Al Griffin  |  Jan 10, 2012

Dish Network would like you to know that most everything about the company is now new: new CEO, new DVR, even a new mascot (see video). To be sure, watching a CES press conference that kicked off with an executive cuddling a live baby kangaroo qualified for me as new.

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CES Press Day: Pioneer AppRadio 2
Leslie Shapiro  |  Jan 10, 2012

At their Monday press conference the day before the CES officially opens, Pioneer focused on their car electronics line.

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CES 2012: OnStar FMV
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jan 09, 2012
OnStar, owned by GM, was one of the first embedded telematics options for cars.
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CES Day One: Monster Press Event
Brent Butterworth  |  Jan 09, 2012

Cutting the cable” is a fashionable trend, but Monster is doing it in a different sense: It’s now just going by Monster instead of Monster Cable. True to its new moniker, the company didn’t even mention cable in its CES press conference today. But given the onslaught of cool new products the company introduced, nobody seemed to notice.

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CES 2012: CES Unveiled
Brent Butterworth  |  Jan 09, 2012

CES kicks off with Unveiled, an event that crams a thousand or so members of the press, most of them desperate for a snack and a free drink, into a loud, stuffy ballroom full of manufacturers exhibiting a few key products in tiny booths. It’s so loud inside that any serious demos are impossible. Why do I go?

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Dish Network Gets New Mascot
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jan 09, 2012
Dish Network’s new mascot, Hopper, was happy to be at CES.
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Klipsch Takes to the Air(Play)
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jan 09, 2012
Klipsch says that sales of iOS devices - those handheld and portable digital multimedia/smartphone/tablet/etc things we all can’t live without - are eclipsing (“eKlipsching”?) sales of HDTVs and other “traditional” entertainment devices. Keeping to the company’s audio-reproduction roots, the Klipsch folks want to bring high-performance audio to you and me in whatever form we find the most convenient, be it a home theater system, a bookshelf system, or a pair of earphones. At the Klipsch press conference this morning, the company presented a couple of the new and soon-to-be AirPlay-enabled audio systems.

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Stream TV Banishes 3DTV Glasses
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jan 09, 2012
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a one-eyed Cyclops or a three-eyed alien being locked away deep in some secret laboratory in Area 51 - no one likes the idea of wearing glasses to watch 3D video. Stream TV hates glasses for 3D, too, and this morning they showed off the company’s Ultra-D technology that can produce a glasses-free 3D image that’s watchable across a wide range of viewing angles. (Just to eliminate any confusion, “glasses-free” doesn’t mean you get “free glasses” with the system. It means you don’t need no stinkin’ glasses at all to watch 3D on the screen.) According to Stream TV, the proprietary technology can be used with all types of displays; and they anticipate we’ll see Ultra-D technology in everything from flat-panel TVs to tablets to smartphones.
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CES Day One: LG Press Conference
Al Griffin  |  Jan 09, 2012

LG packed info about lots of new stuff into its CES press conference: refrigerators, phones, washer/dryer combos — you name it, they announced it. But the appliances I came to hear about were the TVs.

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