Consumer Electronics Show 2002 Report

An anonymous reader writes "I've noticed that Target PC posted their report on this year's Consumer Eletronics Show in Las Vegas. Looks like 2002 will be the year of wireless networking and recordable DVD. In the same article they cover Samsung's upcoming portable computer based on the StrongARM 206MHz processor that will be available in 2Q." Many wireless products (including 802.11a), huge LCD displays, and more -- I hope people who were at the show can comment on the things missed in this report, or in The Washington Posts's report.

side note - "for optimal performance..."

[sammy baby]

I found the following quote pretty amusing:

For optimal performance we did not compress the pictures, loading times might be longer for some and click the picture to enlarge.

Translation: we wanted to tell all our friends we'd been Slashdotted, so we made sure to include an assload of moderate-to-high resolution pics right in the page. We did, however, mess with the aspect ratio [targetpc.com] of some of the pics to make people think they were looking at super-long TVs displaying female dwarf powerlifters.

Re:Microsoft jumps into Flatscreen Monitor market.

[benjymous]

Yeah, that article mentions the new MS technologies "Mira" and "Freestyle"

I guess "Hawk" and "Skater" will be following soon...

Re:This is the year of wireless networking?

[RazzleFrog]

What? Your boss doesn't have kids? I have several layers of bosses and hundreds of coworkers. Lots of them have kids. If by niche you mean everybody who has kids and homes that are larger than one bedroom then yes, yes it is a niche market. I personally would like to sell some product to that niche.

Re:This is the year of wireless networking?

[Sobrique]

That's a really fantastic idea.
Get a load of muppets broadband enabled, plug in some Wireless access points, and never have to pay for my net access again!
Thus starts the Evil (tm)[1] scheme to freeload off people with more money than sense, by shipping 'wireless enabled' cable and xDSL modems.
(Yes, I did (tm) Evil. I am the owner of the universe and thus can do so.)

Re:of course...

[tommck]

they innovate **NOTHING** except the blue screen of death

Yeah... they just have that cute little frown face when something serious goes wrong (at least that's what the earlier Macs did)

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m$'s part

[jeffy124]

at the show, billy gates did a keynote involving something rather cool for MS. (hard to imagine something like that coming form MS, but oh well) they came up with a flat touchscreen monitor that detaches from it's base and can be carried around the house like a tablet, and a wireless link allows you to keep using your computer.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/01/08/microsoft .gates.reut/index.html [cnn.com]

Re:m$'s part

[jhines0042]

"The opportunities for the consumer electronics, software and media industries have never been greater and this cycle of innovation has the potential to deliver valuable stimulus to the economy," Gates said in his prepared remarks.

Man, it must be nice to be able to say these kind of things with a straight face.

Re:m$'s part

[sinistermidget]

Great, now I can lose my monitor behind the couch. Whereas you can still grudgingly watch TV without a lost remote, it might get just a little difficult downoading pr0n without a monitor.

Solutions

[frunch]

Why the hell is everything called a "solution" these days?! A network card isn't a network card, but a "wireless network access solution". Samsung displayed their latest LCD and flat TV solutions [targetpc.com]! Yamaha had their DVD+RW solution [targetpc.com] on display as well.

Jesus! Someday soon a mouse won't be a mouse but a "cursor-moving and activation solution". I liked it better when a monitor was a "monitor" and a flat-panel monitor was an "expensive, cool-looking monitor".

Re:m$'s part

[Tony.Tang]

Dude, it's all about the crontabs. It's the viewing that's gonna be hard.