Panasonic Prepares Billboard-Size TV

It provides the ability to save high-definition content, giving users an all-in-one solution to meet their entertainment needs. Users can also connect the player to a notebook or other mobile device via USB and view their favorite video content while on the go.

Sounds pretty cool.

Buffalo's Blu-ray HD DVD box will be available in the first quarter of this year at an estimated price of $650. I can't wait to try one.

Losing Its Edge

Two days into this massive show I've noticed something. There's not that much revolutionary or even very new and interesting here. Most of the thousands of square feet of show space is filled with hundreds of tiny Asian companies that make knock-offs of some very popular consumer-electronics designs.

For instance, how many replica iPods, iPhones, iPod docks, and USB memory drives can you stop and look at for over an hour? Or a few hours? Or a few days?

The Dumbest Thing I Saw @ CES: Day 3

Believe me, it takes long hours and a lot of legwork for experienced journalists to find interesting and innovating items to tell you about. CES seems to be losing its relevance to the industry.

Then add the incredibly high costs for companies to display their new goods -- as well as the astronomical prices attendees must now pay to travel and stay in Las Vegas. Some big companies are saving money by bypassing the actual show floor and moving their displays to nearby hotel suites.

That's not a good sign.

No wonder that the people who run the Consumers Electronic Show are threatening to move the entire exposition out of Las Vegas after the contract with the city ends in 2011.

They better do something -- and do it quickly.

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