CES 2008: Do I Really Want to Know?

I'm setting up my CES 2008 schedule, and, as usual, my focus will be on mobile devices (my day job), not home theater. In addition to the usual press conferences and meetings, I'm moderating the CES GPS session this year. Still, some of the larger consumer electronics companies have product lines that span both mobile devices and home theater, so I often get a chance to see new displays, projectors, and sound systems while I'm at CES by default.

Which brings me to Panasonic: I just realized that I happened to select Panasonic products for both of the new displays in my home theater (see here and here). I don't have any special affinity to the Panasonic brand - my last TV was a wonderful JVC LCoS set, and I've owned or tested projectors from Plus, Mitsubishi, Sanyo, and others. But now I'm dreading the Panasonic press conference. Do I really need to know how much better next year's Panasonic plasma displays and LCD projectors are going to be? By CES I'll have had the new displays installed for all of two weeks (if all goes well). What kind of masochist would deliberately give themselves buyer's remorse? Maybe I'll skip it...

Update: I didn't skip it, but they didn't introduce anything new, so all is well. :)

Comments

[kd]

may be MVIS will have a stand alone prototype.