The New York Times writes: ‘The flat-panel televisions will be getting bigger, the MP3 players and cellphones will be getting smaller. And almost everything will be getting cheaper. But the biggest trend expected at the International Consumer Electronics Show, which begins this week in Las Vegas, is that these machines will be communicating with one another. The theme of this year’s show might best be described as Convergence: This Time We Mean It.’
- Consumers will finally be able to sling images and sound wirelessly around a room or an entire house.
- The major electronics makers will be showing TV’s with computer capabilities and phones that will play video and music, as well as the next generation of digital recording and storage devices.
- Electronics companies will also be introducing new home media servers and TV’s that can receive digital content wirelessly from a PC or via an HDMI cable (for high-definition multimedia interface).
- Companies, like Elan Home Systems, that want to get right in the middle and sell devices to control all the networked appliances.
- The transition of entertainment from analog to digital, of time-shifting and place-shifting, is just getting under way.
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