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Monday at CES
Jan 7th
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January 7, 1:00pm - I left my heart in San Francisco...
Well his heart may be in San Fran but Tony Bennett's body is in the Philips Booth. Mr. Bennett and crew popped into the booth for a brief look around. Of course, once again the crowds converged. He barely had time to check out photo frame and the new Streamium products that are part of the Rhapsody partnership before his handlers whisked him away...leaving me to wonder - How come I don't have handlers. Oh right, I'm only famous in my mind. Lindsay - Philips Consumer Lifestyle CES Blogger January 7, 11:00pm - Sense, Simplicity and Celebrities 
The show officially opens at 10am, but at 9:40ish we had our first of what is sure to be many celebrity sightings in the Philips Booth. The one and only Bill Gates stopped by for a preview of the Philips' new innovations. John Morog was lucky to give him the tour.
" My first thought was wow, Bill Gates is interested in what we are doing, said John." After the initial shock wore off, I have to say it was pretty cool. He was very smart and knew a lot about the technical specs about our 3D WOW vision. He seemed impressed that we had gotten our LCD response time down to a mere 2 milliseconds. Unfortunately, it was over before I had a chance to ask him what's next with Xbox or if he has ever played Wii. Oh well, I am sure he will be calling me for dinner soon." Mr. Gates had lots of people with him and it only took a minute before word spread on the floor and our booth was packed with ooglers armed with cameras. Here are some pictures, sorry that they aren't a bit more clear ( btw...the guy in the hat is Gates.) Lindsay - Philips Consumer Lifestyle CES Blogger January 7, 9:00am - LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION AT CES! 
"Welcome to Nerdstock, Hollywood Style." That's what The Los Angeles Times had to say on the eve
of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which officially opened its doors today in Las Vegas.
From my perspective, as Philips' "point man" in Hollywood, I couldn't agree more. As one studio
president recently said, "Tech has become cool in Hollywood, we're all racing to 'out tech'
each other these days." The result, a closer collaboration between the Consumer Electronics
industry and the movie studios, is exciting to see and has already resulted in all kinds of
new ways to experience movies, TV shows, online video and music. The evidence is all around us here in Las Vegas.
Take Blu-ray Disc, for example. Blu-ray is a new, high-definition entertainment format offering movies, music and games on a disc that looks like a DVD but offers much more: full 1080p high-definition picture quality and surround sound with loads of added extras, bonus materials and interactive features. The studios like Blu-ray because it offers much more capacity - 50 GB on a dual-layer disc, or five times the capacity of a DVD - and that gives them a lot more room for creativity. The Blu-ray Disc booth here at CES takes this creativity one step further. Years ago, a booth promoting new or recently launched technology would have had all the pizzazz of a modular display. Today, however, thanks to strong support from the leading studios in Hollywood, the Blu-ray booth is as much fun to watch as - well - a Blu-ray Disc. Here, amidst the informational demonstrations and presentations, we have the ship from Pirates of the Caribbean (thanks to Disney), statues from 'the 300,' (thanks to Warner Bros., who just Friday announced their exclusive support for Blu-ray), Homer and Marge Simpson (thanks to Fox), Spiderman (thanks to Sony Pictures) and more. In a sense, it's all very fitting. If Homer Simpson and Spiderman can mingle and mix at CES, it's only natural that Hollywood studios and Consumer Lifestyle companies like Philips would do the same ...! 
Marty Gordon - Live from CES January 7, 8:00am - Setup at CES! I am so excited about what I have seen here in Vegas at CES. I have spent the last two days setting up the booth and I have finally seen the first real look at our 2008 products. They are awesome! The new Philips' Blu-ray player is fantastic. The picture and sound you get from Blu-ray can't be beat by anything. You really feel like you are in the picture! There are also so many great movies to choose from. Other things I have finally seen for the first time that I think are cool are the new Ambisound Home Theaters. Its really the essence of Simplicity. You can finally be surrounded by sound without being surrounded by speakers. That's it for me now, I can't wait to demo some of these new products!" Robert Morgan - Live from CES 
edward.kloc [thinks]
don't put all our eggs in the blue ray basket. The same thing was done years ago between Beta and std vhs. Beta lost, not because std vhs was better, it was worse. It lost, becase beta did not differentiate itself enough from the std vhs to convince the masses that the media price differance and equipment cost justifies changing over. Case in point, on avg I purchase 30+ wide screen dvd's per yr. I have imassed a very impressive private library. A library that equals my previous vhs library. This is after an extensive Beta collection. Blue ray will die, because nothing has changed to convince the public to convert yet again.
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