(Big CES sign)

I walked alot today. Then I walked a lot more. I walked so much my feet will never forgive me. And then I walked some more.


(Mp3 Area)

Today was the first day of CES, one of the biggest north american technology shows. I started off by taking a nice ten minute walk from the hotel to the convention. From there, after registering I immediatly started walking the north hall. Things were going well and I was making progress, seeing new products. Just when I started getting hungry I walked into the SD (Secure Disk) pavillion a frienly PR person approached me and asked, "Are you here for the breakfast press event?" After a moment of pensive thought, I answered in the affimative and proceeded to gobble down some breakfast muffins and apple juice. The beginning of the SD presentation was the lamest thing I've ever seen. It featured a white guy and white girl rapping about the cool features of SD. The used words like "fly" and "dope"....it was tragic, I had to move on.


(Treo Again)


(Perception Digital Jukebox)


(ATL Jukebox)

The north hall had some nice mp3-CD players, but what really caught my eye was an mp3 area. There I found the treo and a plethora of different mp3 devices including a HDD player from ATL Multimedia and Sweet looking home stereo unit from Perception Digital.


(Penn and Teller)

As I continued along the north hall, I even saw Penn and Teller! You never know who your going to run into.

The south hall was the land of the giants. The mega-corporations like Panasonic, Microsoft, Samsung and the like. These mega-corporations demonstrate their mega-wealth with mega-booths. I never liked the mega-booths. For some reason, massive crowds are always drawn to the mega-booths (perhaps in search of corporate handouts) like flies. The influx of humanity makes navigating these booths quite a chore, not to mention that because such a massive staff is needed to run the booth either some or most of the people there are not even employees of the company. I rarely manage to find someone who has a clue in the mega-booth.

Despite the crowds, because the booths take up so much space, there were fewer booths and I managed to move through the hall pretty quickly. Dataplay was there, but I was not impressed, nothing they had worked...it was just a bunch of mock-ups.


(Ain't it Cool)

The coolest thing I saw today, by far, was a stereo system by Samsung. This stere system came bundled with a portable mp3-CD player and a portable flash player (the Yepp) both of which could be docked with the main stereo unit. All of this (stereo, mp3-CD player and portable mp3 player) will supposedly retail for $400-500. Sweeeet.

After the show, I walked to the hotel, walked to another hotel for a meeting and by the time I was done with the second meeting, my legs could take mo more and instead of going to the party I had planned, I walked back to the hotel. I took over 100 pictures today, I can't imagine how many I'll have by the end of the show!



(P.S. if my spelling or grammer is horrible, I'm too tired to care)

Great pictures, I hope to goto one of these conventions one day. What sucks is they're mostly on the West Coast and here I sit on the East Coast. Maybe I'll have a private jet one day also.

c'mon... tell us about some of the cd mp3 players...

hope the samsung mp3 cd player in that stereo system is realesed seperatly, ohh the joy.

Check out DataPlay again. At least 3 units there are functional at last report.

DATAPLAY had one functioning Portable device. It is made by E.Digital an up and coming design house that many of the big names are utilizing. Go to thier Web site. E.Digital.com

I believe that the website that you have listed is incorrect. It should be http://www.edig.com/
There you will find all you need to know about this company.

Go back to DataPlay. The only things that work are e.Digital designed players!

Outstanding job, We love for all of your hard work.

Awesome pix. Good job, poh.

Can you post ALL of your pics?

nice pics. i have to say the Samsung thing looked the coolest and was probably priced just where i'd want it to be. it better be good too. man, i wanna go. no fair.

[doobybrain]

Don't worry, he will when he returns. Wouldn't you rather have him there in Las Vegas taking more pictures and learning about more players than sitting in his hotel room uploading pics?

Cool. Thank you CW.
Comments made here re Dataplay's e.Digital players are correct.

The Treo looks pretty cool. Although it does kind of remind me of the NOMAD II.

~Heidi

Can I have your hotel address? Ill send you one of those electric scooters ;-p

Great pictures.. Do you think you could get some of the LCD for the Treo. I'm real curious as to what menu structure it has and if the interface is as sluggish as teh Nomad Jukebox. Also, can you confirm yet if the backlight rumors are true?

what do you mean not working getit right!

I feel your pain, attila, being a PA girl myself.

please post more of your pictures! thanks

It would be great if you could dig up some more information about the Treo. I plan to buy it, but have no idea when this month it is coming out. There are very few web sites with information on it on the net. Also, how much will the 10GB version cost compared to the 6.4 GB version?

when is aiwa gonna get the attention they deserve!! they are the first major consumer electronics company to make MP3 cd players! and they make the best mini audio sytems! I really love aiwa's stuff and I think they deserve more atttention! I hope they ate least get mentioned at all in the CES's offical site! They deserve alot of attention for being the first company to make the minisystem and the world's first portable mp3 recorder! and I think mp3cd is the best portable and home approach because it don't require you to connect it to the computer to get more songs! all you have to do is burn a cd!! no connecting cables and stuff!! again...aiwa deserves more attention!!!they rock!!