Digital Experience - CES 2008 Ultimate Tailgate Party

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

On Sunday night (January 06, 2008), we attended the Digital Experience, a Pepcom event. This event included many presentations of equipment. It would take several pages to go through what each booth had on display. So once again, we will only highlight a few items.

First thing we saw was a new Alienware display. The display is enormous, and is curved! Not a true wrap-around display made up of multiple screens, this is one screen in one box. Now before you start jumping about making a curved LCD, it's not based on LCD. It uses DLP, so it is not a thin screen like many of us are used to. The quality on this screen is exactly what you would expect from an Alienware product. Perfect! There currently was no price estimate, nor was there a street date for this screen. I would expect it to be above $500, if not closer to $1,000.

Kingston had a display of their popular memory modules. In addition several new USB Flash drives were on display. The blue flash drive is based on their HyperX technology and should be their fastest flash drive. The size of this drive ranges from 1GB up to 8GB. I believe the estimated retail will be around $100 for the 8GB.

As I mentioned with the CES Unveiled, digital photo frames were everywhere. At least every couple of booths they were displaying digital photo frames. Tonight, the best that I saw was manufactured by SmartParts. Of course the screens looked incredible, however the best part was a 32" digital photo frame! In addition, another new display is a digital photo frame and printer in one. The photo is printed on very high quality paper with photo ink. The paper and ink is contained in one cartridge, and the gentleman we spoke to, believed it was 30 prints per cartridge, and that he estimated the replacement cartridges would be around $20! No more having to go to your computer to print that photo out for the kids grandparents! They see a photo they want, simplay hit print, and it pops out the back!

Another big item is "Green" products. Solio was displaying several solar chargers. These devices are universal chargers to replace your power bricks for devices like cellular phones, mp3 players, handheld game devices, and GPS. When you charge your device it will take the same amount of time to charge with a Solio device as it would with a wall charger. In addition, once you have charged your device, you can also continue to charge the Solio for it to store a charge to power your device later. This extra charge can last up to a year. If your Solio needs power, and the sun is not available you can also charge it by USB.

Finally, one last thing that really excited me was presented by Amiga! For those that have been into computers for decades, the Amiga is probably not a new name for you. If like me, you thought they died off, well they havn't. Their focus has changed from hardware to software. The first phase of the new Amiga OS, is available as Amiga Anywhere version 2. This new platform allows software to run on all types of devices including cell phones, audio/video players, laptops, desktops, servers and cameras. Currently the Amiga Anywhere software is available for Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, and Linus Embedded. Soon they will have it available for Symbian and MAC. In addition to running software written for Amiga Anywhere version 2, it will also run the classic Amiga software! I can't wait to check this out!

Many other products were shown, however these really caught my attention. More devices will be discussed over the course CES.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:33:44 Post Subject:

Where is JimBowy? Grin

fairlanefastback · Rated PG Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

acruxksa · Posted: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:22:10 Post Subject:

HF,
Are they seriously considering selling the Alienware display for around $1k? Any word on the resolution? It looks a bit deep, but seems like it would beat the heck out of 3 lcd's side by side.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

No, no pictures of the Amiga display, they had two laptops going, and the few pictures I took were at an awkward angle and didn't come out really well.

Bill was there, somebody else was monopolizing his time (stood there about 15 minutes before walking away). Couldn't get in to talk to him. It looks nice, and will be nice to have the Amiga OS back and I understand how the fustration with the announcements has been. It was just exciting to see something operational. I plan to check it out a bit more when I get home and can spend some time looking into it. Hopefully I can find a few more things out about it.

As for the Alienware display, the there is no real price point, the guy was just estimating the price point. I wouldn't be surprised at a $1,000 price tage, Alienware gear is always expensive Grin

Plus being unique. The depth did give us pause, as we'd like to have it be LCD deep, but it gets really hard to smoothly curve LCD. Maybe OLED screens they could do that, but not sure on that one. The resolution (hopefully BigBruin can verify) I want to say was something like 1900x900 or something like that. I THINK. I'll see if I can get over to the Alienware booth and see if they have it on display on the show floor.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:05:17 Post Subject:

I think the image makes the Alienware display look even bigger than it was somehow. The specs are 2880x900 resolution and 0.02ms response time! Yes, 2/100 of a millisecond!

Pat82 · Rated PG Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Talking with NEC, he said that Alienware monitor will most likely be priced above $3,000 (if not more) becaue of how it is done.

NEC has one as well, that should be available Q3 2008.

borschtBomber[SS] · Posted: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:29:42 Post Subject:

**Modulok** · Posted: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:38:59 Post Subject:

LOL really?

for that price, you can get a 1080P 50"+ LCD TV.