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Santa Clara Valley IEEEConsumer Electronics SocietyCES DownloadDecember 4, 2007www.ieee.org/scvcei/
2008 SCV IEEE CE Society OfficersNominations Gary Sasaki, Chairman Winston Chen, Program Chairman Will Lumpkins, Program Vice-Chair Bill Orner, Secretary/Marketing Rich Elder, Treasurer Chris Pedersen, Victor Ramamoothy, MichaelWang, Tom Coughlin – Program committee
2008 Schedule Jan 22 - CES Download ((Perhapsp withadditional comments about ICCE and SCTE) Feb 26 - DisplaySearch: Inside the DTV Mar 25 - Cyber Security Apr 22 – Wireless,Wireless Atheros Communications May 27 – OCAP/BD-J Java, Sun Micro JuneJ24 – Micronix,Mii FlFlashh iin CE
Tonight’s Talk2008 CES DownloadSpeakers:Gary SasakiChris PedersenWill LumpkinsTom CoughlinVictor Ramamoorthy
Gary SasakiDIGDIASee digdia.com for many more photos & comments
DisplaysPanasonic’sPanasonics 4K 150”150 Plasma.PlasmaGeoff is 6’ 3” tall.Samsunggoing 3DPhilipstargetsWomenSharpGen 10 LCD
Sharp is among many that demonstrated“ThinThin is InIn”.Samsung(and Sony)Show 82”824K LCDSony’s 27”OLED30k hour life?Panasonic s SakamotoPanasonic’sCuts HDMI cables(for WirelessHD)
Pioneer – Black is the new Blackin PlasmaLuxim’s“RF BBulb”lb”75 – 140 Lumens/Watt20K hours at 80% powerUsed byy PanasonicE-Detail Tablet PC w/dual Display
Toshiba’s Jodi Sally admits to having a “bad day”After Warner Blu-rayy decision.vs.Show buzz was HD DVDis deadWarner:“We wereNot paid”Hitachi working onDual format drive
Fashion Fashion FashionEdifier SpeakersPhilips USB Drive
Cars top BoomBeep&Microsoft’sAutoPC Lives (Sync)Rick Wagoner,1st Auto Co.KKeynotet att CESTreoIdea of mobileCEDiesel Audio1600 W Ampfor Cars thatG BoomGoB
License to Kill Laser Toothbrush (Microtech)Air Rocker (Jada Toys)RC Cooler(Interactive ToyConcepts)PVR(Vievu)
BrighamgYoung:g1000 Year CD/DVDsNatl. UnivNatlUniv. Ireland:Blink DetectionHitachi:Blu-ray CamcorderOPUPhilips:3D BluBlu-rayray
Chris PedersenDIGDIA
Sunday MorningPress Conferences
In recognition ofOur venue hostsVoodooDigitalMediaReceiver
Flash-basedFlashbasedHDTV Camcordersgoes mainstreamSanyoPanasonic32 GB SD Card
EchoStar and Sling
GPS & Automotive
Sony RollyAlienware
LG Watch PhoneMicrosoft SurfaceNikko R2D2 FP
Show Stoppers, Digital ExperienceSE2 LabsL bSentry GroupWow Wee (above), Oregon Scientific
Will LumpkinIEEE CCESS Nationalat o a CChairmana a
Lenovo’sFrances O’Sullivanon global operationsRalph BaerBaer, winner of2008 Ibuka AwardCEA’s Virginia Williams
Grant Imahara“M thb t ” “St“Mythbusters”,“Star WWars”,” andd more
DigitalDiit l StStorage anddApplicationsppat SV08,, 2008ICCE and 2008 CESTom CoughlinCoughlin Associateswww.tomcoughlin.com2008, Coughlin Associates
ExternalStorage 1 External Storage was all over the CES including manymobile backup devices as well as desktop devices There were Direct Attached Storage (DAS) as well asNetwork Attached Storage (NAS) Several companies were showing mostly eSATA interfaceexternal storage for DVR expanders One company,p y, Clickfree,, showed a pportable externalstorage device that backed up automatically when it wasplugged in without backup software on the computer or abutton to touch
Mobile External HDDsGrowing Categoryof Products
Personal Area Network Storage(PANS) A hard disk drivebased externalstorage device withwireless connectivityallows storageexpansion, streamingandd contentaggregationSeagate’sDAVE
iVDR Seagate announcedthat they were joiningthe iVDR Alliance,promoting a format ofremovable hard diskdrives that has been indevelopment, primarilyin Japan for the last 5years
Storage in Set Top Boxes andDVRs Many HD set top boxes shown DVR expanders from severalvendors allow DVR expansion Internet and home networksallow sharing contentDVRExpander
Media Servers Microsoft introduced Home MediaServer Software and HP used it toshow a Home Media ServerProduct (their goal was to makethis easier to use) Many other companies had homemedia servers including some veryinexpensive systems
Media Servers
Automobile Storage
Hard Disk DrivesToshibaFujitsuSeagateSamsungSpinpoint F1,1 TB 3.5-inchdrive
Solid State Drives (SSD)IntelZ P140Z-P140Inexpensive PCsIntelSanDiskSamsungSanDisk Vaulter
Flash MemoryLGSandisk DucatiCorsairTeam
Victor RamamoorthyI fi it AlgorithmsInfiniteAl ith
Appendix2008, Coughlin Associates
2008 CES
External Storage 2MarvellBoothOxford SemiPrototype atM CA PMoCAPressConference
Storage in Set Top Boxes andDVRs 2
Media Servers 2Cisco
Camcorder StorageCombination Blu-rayand HDDCamcorder,HitachiNew Breed ofInexpensiveFlash-BasedCamcorders
Removable HDDsSeagate RemovableDrivesImationOdyssey There were several products with removable hard diskdrives for large capacity removable storage—these arecomplete drives in portable packages
OpticalpStorageg Warner Brothers announced thatthey were dropping the HD-DVDformat and rumors were thatDreamworks and Universal couldf llfollow The HD optical format war may beclose to resolution—Blu-ray wins
Content Distribution
Kiosk Content DistributionAt IBMBooth
m O coen ppy, , pany, Clickfree, showed a portable external storage device that backed up automatically when it was plugged in with
