CES, Day One

I'm tired. I haven't done a mega show in years and CES is at least twice as big as when I attended in the late 80s (and it was big then). My pictures don't do justice, but everything between me and the Hilton XM was one of the first things I saw. They had a new portable player that I wanted to remember to go back to see tomorrow. Samsung had a ." HD-DVD booth was packed. Why? Their first players are a LOT lower price than Blue-Ray. I'll check out both players more later this week. The quality is stunning. I see one of these in my future. Maxthon was showing off a new plugin that lets you blog with WordPress. Oh, oh, that's cool! Maxthon is a cool IE-based browser (it's Chris Pirillo's favorite browser, and i can see why). They gave me a beta, will have to try that. If you go by, ask them for a memory key. They have a bunch under the booth with Maxthon loaded on a 256mb key. That's cool. The car bling-bling was out in force. At least 100 really killer cars with entertainment systems inside. 102″ plasma is sweet. But, at $150,000 (or more, they wouldn't give us an exact price) this is a toy for only the Gates' or Jobs' to play with. So far the winner in my decision of an HDTV screen is the Here's a picture next to a cell phone so you can see it. I played around with it and I have serious drool factor. Vic Gundotra would kill me if I got one before him. $2,100. Available in four weeks, but orderable now. Scobleizer blog. He works as Scobleizer