2002 Comsumer Electronics Show
Held in Las Vegas this week Sponsored by the Comsumer Electronics Association (CEA) The most noticeable product this year: H-Y-P-E The second most noticeable products: convergent PDA.
It?s not your Dad?s Palm anymore. PDA?s with everything
Wireless Phone, Address Book, Schedules Pocket PC (Word, Excel, etc) Browser, MP3 Player, TV, Embedded Cameras
One example HipTop ($200) sports PDA functions, cell phone, web browser, e-mail reader, and pager. Convergence of Wireless Devices Super Session
Cingular Wireless, Handspring, Audiovox, CNET, Wireless Week Magazine Phone combos very poplular (Phone/MP3 or Phone/PDA) Bluetooth or 802.11 will allow wireless synching with PCs
Home Media Servers may the next wave
Moxi Media Center is most complete product
The latest brainchild from WebTV co-founder Steve Perlman An all-in-one, broadband-capable set-top box, the Moxi combines a satellite receiver or digital cable box with
Personal video recorder CD/DVD player, Digital music jukebox (holding roughly 6,000 tracks) Internet gateway Home media server. Distribute recorded or live TV shows, music, pictures and games throughout the house without wires, by adding optional extension modules in other rooms. Sports an 80G hard drive and probably 802.11 wireless technology. Funded by AOL
Pioneer’s Digital Library Server is similar to Moxi
Organizes and transmits music, video clips, photos, and other digital content throughout the home 60G hard drive would hold 1,500 CDs Wireless This represents are real trend toward wireless connectivity in the home using 802.11b (10Mbps) or 802.11a (60Mbps)
High Definition Television (HDTV) Rundown
Portland, Houston, Indianapolis offer 100% digitall HDTV Washington will become the fourth all digital city in 2002 FCC is pushing the technology Washington WUSA (NTSC Channel 9, HDTV Channel 34) has the most local digital offerings
60 Minutes, Survivor, The Ellen Show, Everybody Loves Raymond That’s Life, 48 Hours, Touched by An Angel, The District The Education of Max Bickford, The King of Queens, Yes, Dear Becker, Family Law, JAC, First Monday, Judging Amy
HDTV (US Standard) vs. Conventional NTSC
Non-interlaced vs. Interlaced 1050 vs 525 Scan lines 960 vs 484 Active lines 675 vs 242 Vetical Resolution 600 vs 330 Horizontal Resolution 2.5H vs 7H View Distance
Jumping the CCC Hurdle (Cost, Content, Cable) in 2002
Cost is as low as $1100 More stations are offering HDTV, plus Satellite Cable now converging on HDTV (Comcast first of the big ones)
Unions Having Trouble Invading D-Coms
Webvan.com and Etown.com out of business Amazon closing Seattle service center Just we they think they can organize, the business goes belly up.
Judge Tosses Out Microsoft Settlement
Settle designed to settle 100 private class-action lawsuits US District Judge Fredrick Motz agreed that settlement would be anticompetive MS would give $1B in money, software, services, and training to 12,500 underprivileged school children. Not enough administrative dollars. Judge felt it unfair competition to Apple
Missed News from 2001
Computer Chip Inventor wins Nobel Prize October 2001 Jack St. Clair Kirby developed the Integrated Circuit at Texas Instruments around 1960. Shares $915,000 prize with two others Bell Labs invented transistor, TI invented integrated circuit, Intel invented programmable computer on a chip (CPU)
Security Update Stratford News
Job Fair at Stratford Very Successful 4-Your-Health Appearance (January 19th and 20th ) Next Start February 11th