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2013-01-22
it's Tuesday January 10 2012 opening day the consumer electronics show the show floor is ready to greet more than 150,000 attendees today but we got a sneak peek at some of the hottest products already at several press conferences and you know what that means it's time to get loaded at the end of an otherwise dull press conference for Panasonic justin timberlake took the stage to show he's thinking outside the box so to speak Timberlake announced get this myspace TV Timberlake is bringing myspace back but the social network will be revamped to work with Panasonic Stevie's so that members can interact with and discuss what they are watching can't say any of us saw that coming yesterday hopping right along satellite service Dish Network broke a record yesterday as the first CES presenter to bring a live kangaroo on the stage the adorable stunt was to promote a new product line of multi room digital video recorder in high-speed broadband the hopper is the name of its main tuner with two terabytes of memory that can record up to six shows at once it can record all of prime time on the four major networks for eight days and devices called Joey's will connect to other room televisions to the system the pricing starts at 7995 a month and is planned to start this summer and what's Vegas without a good fight this CES will be the battle of the 55-inch Oh LED televisions LG and Samsung both have TVs on the show floor with the new screen technology there's no pricing yet but you can expect it to be around eight thousand dollars toshiba also has his own showcase a 3d television that doesn't require glasses the sensors are able to follow where the viewer is sitting and adjust the 3d focus for that angle and is it a really large phone or a tablet or a new hybrid category Samsung is showing off its newest creation the Galaxy Note it's a 5.3 inch screen smartphone with a stylus it's big enough to comfortably browse the web and do work but maybe will feel a little big if you want to make your phone call it has a 2-megapixel front-facing camera an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a larger battery to help support that large power-hungry screen and Microsoft is saying so long to CES CEO Steve Ballmer gave his keynote last night without much news unveiled but Ryan Seacrest was brought on to be a moderator microsoft said it would bring the xbox 360 accessory that connect to windows on February first and that it sold 18 million units of the motion sensor device Ballmer also showcased how kids could interact with Sesame Street characters using the Kinect it's the last time Microsoft will be presenting at the show after 15 years Ballmer said the company just doesn't time the releases of their products around the show and they'll be better suited doing their own announcements those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey frisina and be sure to stay tuned all week as we bring you live coverage from the show floor and first looks at all the hot tech thanks for watching
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