CES 2009 - TV trends, WirelessHD, 240Hz and Netbook Pricing

While the PC / Consumer Electronics coincidence, of course, happened, remains the CES Consumer Electronics Show. Our first press conference of the exhibition was to ASUS said netbooks, but the next day was filled mostly TV authorities to discuss their 2009 lineups.

Usually, the focus of most TV manufacturers at CES is to talk about how cool their TVs and go see a light on the technology. This year, as we mentioned in our previous coverage, we got more meat for our moment - we rarely hear about the 100 + TV and instead got a real dose of technology.

So forgive me, but I am talking about less than PC, but the technology-oriented element in this year's CES: LCD TVs.

Wireless logon
I have already mentioned that last year's CES was a show of shows. Almost every manufacturer of a focus on the thin TVs or large screen size. As in most pissing contests, at the end of it, how do you feel a bit silly, so this year we have seen less Glam and more functionality.

Here's the problem. LCD and plasma TVs are falling in price. Although not in itself constitute a problem, with more consumers to buy them you have more people seek to wall mount your new flat screen TV. The problem with the wall mount is that the majority of televisions have a sense of themselves, you need the input source type. If this cable, HTPC, or Blu-Ray player, get the content on TV, usually means working the cables from one or more boxes to the TV.

This seems to make a wall mount new TV far Messier. Despite the fact that television is, as part of the room, separate from sources it did not. In the past year, several companies have shown TVs with wireless input. There is a separate window, which tells the wires to the TV, and you connect all your sources in the box.

This year, wireless input and a lot more companies demonstrating TVs with wireless input.

Standard WirelessHD. Your contribution of the wireless connection to your TV via 60GHz signal that can pass the full bandwidth 1080p60 at a distance of 30 feet. Transmission losses and sent uncompressed. The same applies to audio, you can send up to 7.1 audio cables between the computer and TV.

Samsung, Panasonic and LG TVs at all with wireless contributions, using the same standard of WirelessHD.

In the end, I expect to see wireless access directly on the CE devices and wireless inputs on TVs, set top box cut facilitator. I suspect that, although given how much the legacy devices, users want to connect to their televisions.