Event Coverage

CES 2008: Home Entertainment Galore

By Terence Ang & Zachary Chan - 15 Jan 2008

HD Wars @ CES

HD Wars @ CES

 Similar to how wild and extravagant Las Vegas the city is, the Blu-ray Disc Association booth went for excess displays with a gigantic replica of the Black Pearl ship from Pirates of the Caribbean, with life-sized replicas of Jack Sparrow, Spider-man, a Spartan warrior from 300 and the Silver Surfer. Check out the crowds at the booth.

 Blu-ray booth going all out in a show of strength as Captain Jack Sparrow proclaims the future.

 What do we have here?

 You must be thinking that this huge Transformers display would be something the HD DVD group is having to show them Blu-ray guys who's boss, since Transformers is one of the big ticket movies that is exclusive to HD DVD, but you'd be wrong. Dolby was the one rocking this bad boy.

 Meanwhile the HD DVD Promotion Group, which had its booth directly next to the Blu-ray Disc booth, was particularly subdued.

 Despite the Warner Bros announcement that the studio would go BD all the way from now on, the HD DVD Promotion Group continues to tout the availability of more than 1000 titles worldwide. The consolation however is that Toshiba is working on a super-editing machine on their QOSMIO notebook for fasts HD DVD editing and recording. We shall have to get a unit in and test it to see if the claim is true.

 NME's Red Laser Blu-ray/HD DVD competing technology HD VMD was supposed to be at CES this year, but all we got as an empty booth lot surrounding by this poster.

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