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hi everyone and welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet's carros ooh boy joined by senior editor Donald Bell and Donald we are talking all things CES 2013 that's the Consumer Electronic Show happens every year in Las Vegas and roughly the second week of January so we're just a few days away from heading down to the big show what are some of your thoughts for this year what are we going to see as far as products go one thing that's always a staple of CES is TVs it's half of half of it always seems to be big name announcements for televisions and also some new technologies that have been kind of in the pipe for a while now that it's falling down into you know consumer level television so we're looking at 4k TVs which is double the resolution of our highest resolution 1080p TV y is right now and oh l EDT beans which have been in the process for a while but we've seen smaller screen sizes that are very expensive hopefully now we're going to be hitting an equilibrium of screen sizes and price to make them more attractive to consumers I remember a couple years ago the rage was 3d TVs so it looks like that fat is past or on to a new desk yeah that's kind of like people take that as a given now in any TV they're going to buy I heard that one of the things editors are keeping an eye out for is streaming and connectivity and products like Roku and other competitors right there's there's that continued push to make the living room all the more wireless especially now the Apple is pulled their connection port to their phones and their tablet there's this push to have like airplay speaker systems Bluetooth speaker systems people are now whether they like it or not having to embrace more wireless technologies in the living room including things like Roku for streaming video to their TVs they even on the front of like wireless charging for their phones or wireless speaker systems for their home theater what about handheld devices in the form of smartphones or tablets do you think we'll see a lot of innovation in the hardware space there so release for the past two years CES has definitely been a place where we've seen a lot of new Android tablets and I think that's still going to continue here because we've seen some successful footholds in the tablet market for Android devices like the amazon kindle fire and the nexus 7 so we're going to see probably even more android tablets moving the CES but as far as phones go we have a mobile world congress coming up in a month after CES checking a lot of the manufacturers going to save their big name announcements for that next bone and then we'll see some phones here but nothing that's going to really make a lot of headlines except maybe some fireproof waterproof phones things like that whatever always seemed to trickle out that are funded demo but gradually it's not really the things that people get excited about and speaking of companies sort of wanting to release products on their own schedule we learned last year that Microsoft would no longer be participating in CES yeah what kind of impact will that have on the show this year well it takes a big big brand name off of the show floor yeah but that also leaves space for other people to come in and take it over so there is a vacuum there but I'm sure it's gonna be filled by a lot of other manufacturers this also makes sense for Microsoft anyway because they just came out with the big push for Windows 8 Windows Phone 8 so they've already kind of shown off everything that they have for this year so that's not a lot for them to show at CES i have now this will be my fourth CES how many of you gone to this will be I think for four or five yeah is there anything that you can share with our viewers that you're doing to prepare right now before I head down just exhaustion preparation just taking my vitamins take care of myself you know but yeah it's it's rough because you're on your feet all day it's high stress you're you know the bloggers and writers are bringing extra like my thighs to keep connected to the internet at the different press conferences it's a lot to go through yeah just waiting to the crowd right call that time I bring it bring extra socks comfy shoes that's a lot of walking yeah definitely that's all this note there's no real preparation you can do except to get a lot of rest absolutely well we look forward to seeing you down there thank you so much Donald Bell I'm Kara Tsuboi thanks for watching the inside scoop you