Wednesday, January 6th - Day 0 - Press Day of CES 2010

7:00 AM - CES 2010 begins today. After a long day of travel yesterday, I met up with Alex, Wes, and Adam at Circus Circus. Settling in included seeing the Las Vegas Sign, walking the strip, riding The Deuce, and some valuable gaming research at GameWorks. Beginning with Netgear, we have a full day of press events ahead of us. Expect updates as the day progresses on.

12:00 PM - Netgear and Toshiba down. We're off to eat some brunch, and then Samsung's conference in the afternoon. So far, there's been mostly talk of streaming full HD signal over the home network, making SD content to look near HD, full network connectivity across the web, social networking, and the future of televison. Bringing the 3D experience into the home, packed with tons of extra features the CELL TV hopes to become the ultimate TV solution

3:00 PM - A familiar tune of bringing the 3D experience into the home is ringing in my ears while exiting the Samsung conference. Partnering up with Dreamworks and Technicolor, Samsung hopes to dominate the market in 2010 with 3D movies over a standardized Blu-Ray 3D format. Samsung also announced today the launch of Samsung Apps. While there were not many specifics cited, they're focusing on an open market with the use of a free software developement kit with support for multiple devices including for the first time, televisions. That's right, an application store for your TV will be available by Spring. The first slew of free apps will be available in the Spring, and more premium apps are to follow in the Summer of 2010.

Interim - So far the day has been full of some interesting news, although nothing of much surprise. Considering how successful 3D movies have been throughout 2009 it was only a matter of time before the consumer would be expecting the same immersive experience at home. We're back for the night, busily posting up the days news releases and pictures, and Patriot's Party is in the evening. Stay tuned to LANOC for some more in depth coverage, and tommorrow will bring another day of news.

Night Cap - Patriot's party was informative, stylish, and exciting. The most exciting product of 2010 for Patriot is the BoxOffice. It features one 2.5" bay, 3 USB ports, and supports a wide variety of codecs. Most importantly, it operates as a NAS device shipping with a wireless g adapter allowing seemless streaming over the home network with a large variety of media. It will be able to read Blu-Ray ISOs, and support Dolby Digital, and DTS.

A neat little device from Patriot will also be the Gearbox. It's a very small NAS device that connects directly up to a RJ45, capable of print server support, with 2 USB ports, and operates at 10/100 speed. Retailing at around 49.99 it provides a cheap and quick way to bring NAS service to any user's home network.

Although no information is solid as to when or how much, but the newest format in SD memory will be SDXC with support up to 2TB of data.

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