1. CES 2005.
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Em, David, Lilley, Ernest, Pournelle, Alex, and Spisak, Dan
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HOUSEHOLD electronics , *HOUSEHOLD electronics industry , *EXHIBITIONS - Abstract
This article highlights the 2005 Consumer Electronics Society exhibition held in Las Vegas, Nevada. A number of digital imaging companies took the opportunity to make product announcements at the ImageScape reception. Particularly notable was Kodak with its new EX Share One camera. Also interesting were industry updates by InfoTrends/Cap Ventures' analysts. They noted that the past year camera telephone sales passed cameras, 138 million to 180 million. Genoa Color Technologies previewed the world's first five-primary color liquid crystal display (LCD) television; while the display had manufacturing defects, its had a higher color range than the standard 17-inch LCD television next to it. Meanwhile, LaCie showed its 21.3-inch LaCie 321 TFT LCD display. The 321 has 1600 x 1200 resolution and a 500:1 contrast ratio. HomePlug Powerline Alliance has been considering powerline networking with its 14 megabits per second standard. Spanish company DS2 hopes to jumpstart powerline networking with a 200 megabit per second technology. Aura Communications was demonstrating the LibertyLink magnetic communications custom chip, which is fabricated in standard mixed-mode complementary metal oxide semiconductors.
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- 2005