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Digital Media Trends 2009:
New Products and Technology (4/09, 2/2009)
(In Progress)
by Douglas Dixon
Trends in digital media products and technology for the new year, from
the Consumer Electronics Show
(see CES 2009 Summary).
With links to my Digital Media Galleries,
recent articles, and Manifest
Tech Blog.
See also my presentation on The Growth of Flash
Trends: Hot New Products and Technology
Economy
- Credit crunch - Can't cut prices to increase demand and clear
inventories
- Line extensions to offer lower-cost products
Portable / Wireless Media:
Mobile, Players, Storage
Portable Accessories: Audio, Power
Digital Imaging: Camcorders, cameras
Home Media: DVD, HDTV, Networked
- Connected Internet and Home Entertainment - Yahoo
Connected TV - Widgets
- Thinner TVs - Hang like frames
- 3D HDTV
Also: Peripherals and
Accessories Gallery
Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO of Sony Corp.:
- "By 2011, 90% of Sony products will be wireless and interactive with
each other."
- 10 million Blu-ray enabled devices in the U.S. 2008, 28 million BD movies
sold, 4X 2007
Mobile Communications
See the Mobile
Communications Gallery
Mobile media: Mobile phones to
PDAs, Portable GPS navigation
See Flash presentation: Smartphones and Convergence Devices
See Flash presentation: Netbooks
Portable Media Players
Touch screen, speaker, Bluetooth stereo, Wi-Fi
See the Portable
Media Player Gallery
MP3 / video players: Flash &
Hard disk, Multifunction devices: Satellite, Games
See Flash presentation: Portable MP3 Players
Portable Storage
See the Portable
Storage Gallery
Flash storage: Memory cards, USB
drives, Hard disk storage
See Flash presentation: Flash
Storage
See Flash presentation: Solid
State Drives (SSD)
See Flash presentation: The Future of Storage
- Cloud storage
- Next Jump in Memory Card Capacity - Gallery
SDXC, Sony / SanDisk: "Memory Stick Extended"
- 2
TB Memory Cards (blog)
- USB Flash Pocket Drives - Gallery - LaCie itsaKey / imaKey, Verbatim Store
'n' Go Micro
- Portable Hard Drives - Gallery
- SSD To Mass Market
OEM to IT (faster replacement drive)
Larger capacity - 256 GB
Aggressive pricing: SanDisk
Samsung, Imation, Fujitsu, ASUS, Kingston
- Storage in the Cloud - Netbooks, LaCie / Wuala - Blog
- Future of Storage
Audio / Accessories
Comfort, Style - in-ear, ear hook, Noise reduction, Kid
hearing safe
See the Audio
Accessories Gallery
Headsets, headphones, speakers,
Wireless, Bluetooth
- Mobile Phone / Bluetooth Headsets - Gallery
Jawbone / new
fit, Joby
Zivio Boom (blog), Blue Ant, Motorola H15
- Headphones / Earbuds - Gallery
Monster Turbine, Logitech / Ultimate Ears - MetroFi
Sennheiser MX W1 - wireless - Kleer vs Bluetooth
- Portable Speakers - Gallery
- LaCie USB Speakers
Portable Power
Green, power packs, solar, wireless
See the Power
Accessories Gallery
Batteries, chargers, Adapters,
tips, wireless
- Power Packs
Fuji Enviro Max Batteries
Energizer - Advanced Lithium 4x vs Ultimate 8x
Fuel
Cell - Medis - Gallery
- Solar / Crank - Renewable energy - Gallery
Solio, HYmini
- Wireless Power - Gallery
Powermat, WildCharge
- Photo + video, HD (10+ MP, 720p/1080p)
- Touch-screen interface
- Upload directly to Facebook, YouTube; Wi-Fi, GPS tagging
- Smart: Face finding (sideways), smile, blink
Auto scene selection / shooting mode
- Quick power-on, quick ready to shoot
- Rugged - Sanyo, Panasonic
LUMIX DMC-TS1
- Bright colors - light blue, orange, green
Digital Photo Cameras
See the Digital
Photo Cameras Gallery
Photos beyond megapixels,
Accessories: Tripods, frames
See Flash presentation: Digital Cameras
- Face + smile finding (Sony)
- Face recognition - remember settings (Panasonic)
- Wireless - Gallery - Sony
DSC-G3 (blog) with Web browser, Wi-Fi -Eye-Fi
card (blog - video)
- Instant prints - Gallery - Dell Wasabi, Polaroid PoGo
Camera + photo printer
Digital Video Camcorders
See the Video
Camcorders Gallery
Personal video goes HD, DV /
Tape, DVD / Disc, Hard Disk, Flash
See Flash presentation: Digital Camcorders
- Flash growing (smaller, rugged), Hard drive (HDD) popular
for capacity -- Hybrid formats
disc (mini-DVD) going,
Tape (DV) phasing out
- Longer record time - Sony 240 GB hard disk drive, up to 101
hours of HD video (LP mode)
Panasonic 32 GB memory, 12 hours of HD video (HE
mode)
Sony 16 GB memory, up to 11 hours of SD video (LP
mode)
- Longer optical zoom (50X) -- optical and
digital stabilization - Panasonic 70X
- Surround sound recording - Dolby Digital, 5 mics - Panasonic - Sony
zoom mic
- Highlight Playback - Intelligent Index - detects zoom, pan, scene
change, sound level, faces (Panasonic)
- Flash camcorders: Smaller, HD
Sony, Canon, JVC, Samsung - 25 degree angle
Sony
2009 - Webbie
HD cameras - Panasonic
2009
- Pocket
Camcorders (Gallery) :HD, photos
Flip HD, RCA Small Wonder - Webslinger HD, Kodak ZX1, Creative Vado / HD, DXG,
Sony Webby
- Pico / mobile Video
Projectors (Gallery): Brighter, speakers - 3M, Optima, Samsung
High-Def DVD
See the High-Def
/ DVD Gallery
CD, DVD, Blu-ray, HD DVD,
Optical disc trends
- Blu-ray Disc players - Panasonic DMP-B15
portable, Samsung BD4600 player - thin, wireless
- Integrated Blu-ray Disc - Sound bars
- Interactive Disc: Digital
Copy (article)
HDTV
See the Consumer
HDTV Gallery
High-def TV: Widescreen,
flatscreen, Video projectors
- Connected Internet and Home Entertainment - Yahoo Connected TV - TV Widgets, BD-Live,
DLNA
- Thinner TVs - Hang like frames -
JVC future ultra-slim TV, 7mm thick, 5 kg (11 lps),
hang from magnetic plate
- Backlight: Sony Wide color gamut cold cathode fluorescent
backlight (WCG-CCFL)
- 240Hz motion - Sony Motionflow
Crisp and detailed fast motion sports and movie action
scenes
Quadruples frame rate of conventional LCD televisions,
interpolates three new frames
- Green TVs (Sony)
Reduce power consumption more than 40%, Exceed
Energy Star 3.0 requirements
- 3D HDTV
- Wireless video - DisplayLink
- Unified remotes - Logitech, Audiovox
- Flat antenna for digital / HDTV - Audiovox
- Home Theatre in a Box (HTIB) - 2.1, sound bars,
wireless sub
Home Networked Media
See the Home
Networked Media Gallery
Home Networked Media, PC / TV /
CE Media Capture / Transfer, Media Servers: Backup / archiving
Also: Peripherals and
Accessories Gallery
- ezGear ezSpace UFO - 6-outlet surge protector
- LaCie - Flat Cable
- Logitech - diNovo Keyboard, Air Mouse, Notebook Lapdesk
- Verbatim - Speaker keyboard
- PakSeat
Backpack with Built-In Seat
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