News galore out of CES 2006…our focus is on the content side of things, as usual:
– HP’s Online Homemade Movie Push: Among HP’s CES announcements, this one is relevant to us: HP online photo service Snapfish is debuting its home movie service. The service is designed to allow users to access, review, store and share digital videos from their cell phones and digital cameras. HP will promote the product with a month’s free service, after which it plans to charge a monthly fee of $2.99.
– Audible Streaming Through Sonos Player: Sonos home media streaming system can now stream Audible throughout the house…
Zen casts its own content: MP3 player maker Creative has announced a new content software dubbed the ZenCast Organizer. This application will run off Windows-based PCs and handle the managing of audio and video blog content for Creative’s Zen MP3 players.
– EyeBud can turn video iPod into big-screen TV: To be showcased at CES: eMagin has developed a wearable headset system that plugs into video iPod and displays video from it in front of one eye. eyeBud is expected to retail for as much as $599 — $200 more than the cost of a 60-GB iPod.
– XM to debut two portable players: The two devices, called the Helix and the Inno, will store and play MP3 files and those encoded using Windows Media software. Both will sell for $399.99 in the first quarter of this year.
– TotalVid’s Content To Living Room, Through D-Link: TotalVid‘s video content delivered to TV sets through D-Link’s MediaLounge Wireless HD Media Player.
– AMD’s ‘Live’ to rival Intel’s Viiv: Multimedia laptop branding from AMD….The brand–whose logo will be printed on a sticker on the chassis of a desktop or notebook–will indicate that the computer in question is tuned for home entertainment. Live PCs will come with 7.1 surround sound capabilities.
– Music players lead digital surge: CEA analyst Sean Wargo’s pre-show briefing covered a lot of ground. Among the tidbits: sales of MP3 players were up 200 percent to $3 billion. More interesting given the video ferver — 15 percent of the players sold in 2005 could play video, a number CEA expects to double this year.
– Gadget makers make mad dash to market: I’m a sucker for curtainraisers (a trade term for preview stories) and this is a good one from Michelle Kessler.
– Cable Customers Lead the Pack in Embracing New Technology; 46 Percent Report Inteest In Quad Play: A study from CTAM claiming that digital cable subs are more likely than sat subs to be early adapters. The more interesting nugget — nearly half of those responding showed interest in cable’s quad play.Details.
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