While not a thorough booth-by-booth analysis of the CES show in two days, I nonetheless saw about 80% of what there was to see and got a pretty good feel for the major themes (home theatre was the big story), saw some cool gadgets and learned some things.
LCD, plasma and projection TV’s were everywhere. In fact, Samsung showed “The World’s Largest Plasma TV” in their booth at 102″. Like I talked about in my post below from yesterday’s visit to CES, there seems to be quite a bit of discussion and design around finding ways to hang these TV’s or place them in, on or around furniture. Seems to me a 102″ TV would be a bit dominant in the old family room!
My bride (Michelle Lamb) forecasts trends for the home furnishings industry. While discussing my attending this trade show, she was curious about what the “color story” might be at CES. If you like your consumer electronics in black and silver — you’re all set. There was only one major manufacturer of any kind — Marantz — that was showing a slight variation and it was a champagne color. Though there was color in CD, DVD players as well as a few other offerings (mainly from non-brand Korean vendors), the largest vendors did not show product that was other than black and silver.
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