MacWorld, CES and, The Iphone

CES
On Monday January 8th to Thursday January 11th the Consumer Electronics Show took place. This year all the talk was about who would rule the future of home movie entertainment, BuRay or HDDVD. BluRay looks for victory in the fact it has 25gb+ on a disk while HDDVD's main selling point is that it is less expensive and offers only one hour less of HD content on a duel layer disk.

CES is more then a battleground for the DVD format wars, it also show cases the newest in Television technology, cellphone Technology, minor gaming technology and future innovations, so instead of writing about the best from each category I will write about what really caught my eye from this years CES. This year many new T.V.s were show cased. One in particular caught my eye Sharp's 108-inch LCD T.V. just because how huge it is, I mean 108-inches. If you want a T.V. that big get a projector, because if you can afford that T.V. I'm sure you could afford a projector and a completely dark room to go with it (probably at the same price of the T.V.). To complement your new 108-inch T.V. how about a HDDVD and BluRay player all in one. Thats right, all in one. Lg will be releasing the BH100 a HDDVD and BluRay player in February for the price of $1200 American for this all in one package.

MacWorld
MacWorld happened at the worst time possible this year a day or so after CES, so few people were able to visit both as this was in San Francisco and CES was in Vegas. This year the main hopes and wet dreams of Mac fan boys, the Iphone, was announced, I will talk about this later. For now here is what I think of the Apple TV. The Apple TV is a wireless device that connects you Mac to your TV, you can do a wireless transfer of files to the 40 gig hard drive and watch the files on your TV, so essentially you can watch your iTunes shows, video podcasts, and listen to music on this "Micro-Mac" and use your TV as a your screen. To me this "Micro-Mac" is a good idea for people who have Macs because it is not as easy for those people to hook up there comp to the TV as it is for people wit PCs.

iPhone
The iPhone, the holy grail of cell phones, this is a cell phone with iTunes, Pictures, Internet, Huge beautiful touch screen, 2 megapixal camera, Maps and, Widgets, all for $600, that may sound expensive, but look at the price of an iPod, PDA, Cell phone and, digital camera conbine them together and you will see that it is an beautiful idea. The only really bad point is that you have to buy it with a 2-year plan from Sprint. If this phone had a pay as you go plan that you could use with it it would almost be perfect. This may be a bust with how expensive some people might find it but now it seems to be a glimpse into the future of phone technology.

Thats it, those are my views of CES, MacWorld and, The iPhone. Sorry about the large font, technical difficulties.