Sony DCR-SR100 hard-disk camcorder with ECMHW1 wireless microphone
JVC may have started a trend with its Everio line of hard disk-based camcorders. Toshiba and Sony at CES on Wednesday announced models that banish the tapes and discs home video enthusiasts tote like Kleenex and equipped the cameras instead with internal hard drives.
In 1964, AT&T introduced the Picturephone at the New York World's Fair. Forty-one years later, the phone companies are finally bringing out a product that combines voice and video. And they're calling it ... television.
This is the week. Throngs of unsuspecting innocents are expected to descend on the Las Vegas Convention Center. (That's in Nevada, not Las Vegas, NM. Yes, there is such a place, but they don't hold conventions (there aren't enough rooms at the Motel 6).
<B>Intel Leaps Ahead To Convergence</B>
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In what is sure to be a preview of CES 2006, word is out that Intel is going to be re-branding itself with a new product line focused on the nascent digital home entertainment market. Rather than staking its name awareness with consumers on its chips and microprocessors, Intel's new marketing campaigns will be focused instead on the digital lifestyles that the company's new product lines will enable.
The <I>UltimateAV</I> editors are getting ready for CES 2006 and will be reporting live from the show starting Wednesday, January 4. Join us for reports and photos.