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The Best Of CES

Aired January 10, 2004 - 16:24   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


FREDERICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Las Vegas is known as sin city, right? This week it's more like tech city as it plays host to the Consumer Electronics Show. Tens of thousands of visitors are taking in the newest gadgets. CNN's Daniel Sieberg is one of them.
Dan?

DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Fredricka.

If there's a theme to this story we're going to be talking about here, it's maybe accessing your entertainment on the go, wirelessly, while you're moving around. You just can't be away from it, at anytime. Joining us is Brian Cooley, editor-at-large at CNET.

Brian, let's talk about this first one. I guess it has a security feature to it, in addition to being a little fun, as well?

BRIAN COOLEY, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, CNET: Frankly, it's a lot of fun.

SIEBERG: Right.

COOLEY: What these are, they are wireless Internet cameras. They're like casino cameras that we're seeing here in Vegas. But they connect using wi-fi, so they're easy to put around your house. No cables to drag around.

Then you can watch your home, baby-sitter cams, think of that. Watch your cats like I do. Here's my phone that has a web browser in it. I have some of these cameras at home. The picture on that phone, right now, is live from my home in Northern California, watching my cats in the living room.

SIEBERG: What's the speed like? Does it refresh fairly quickly?

COOLEY: It is very gradual refresh. It's more slide show than live video. But as these phone needs to get faster, these guys are up to the task, the phones needs to get faster. And then you will have, literally, home surveillance video in your pocket -- or on any web browser. They're really cool.

SIEBERG: These are available now?

COOLEY: They're coming out in Q1 from Panasonic. It is a whole new relaunch, and a lot of companies are doing these. This is a total breakout category coming up in Q1.

SIEBERG: OK, Brian, let's move on to the next one. This one is also video on the go. This is live television on your cell phone.

COOLEY: This is live TV on a sprint cell phone. They're offering this right now in their service. But other companies are definitely going to do this. You select just like a menu on your normal phone. But you see channel lists here.

SIEBERG: Certain channels, right? Not every channel, they have partnered with some channels.

COOLEY: That's right. They're partners. You don't really tune television on this thing. But it's pretty good as a list. And you can select the channel you want to watch and then you end up tuning it live on your display.

Again, like you mentioned the frame rate, the rate of video is a little bit sluggish. But the audio is always right on. When you're stuck on a train or a plane or something and the taxiway, this is really cool.

SIEBERG: Potentially, not an additional fee?

COOLEY: There actually is a fee of $9.99 a month for this on some plans. And there are credits as such. You know how those cell phone plans are. Plus you're eating up minutes. They love that.

SIEBERG: They love that.

Let's move on to the last one. We've got about 40 seconds left. This looks like the large I-Pod.

COOLEY: A company called Max Sense (ph) does this one. Think of the radio you take out into the yard in the summer when you are working in the garden or something. This is a wi-fi version, which means it uses wi-fi wireless networking to play the MP3s on your PC.

As those are stuck in your home office now, they can come with you. You're out in the garage, you are working on the car, you take this guy out, turn this knob to select a piece of music, press that and that's it.

SIEBERG: And it has FM radio, just in case, as well.

COOLEY: Just in case, there is FM, as well

SIEBERG: All right. Brian Cooley, editor-at-large at CNET, thanks so much for joining us.

COOLEY: Thanks, Dan.

SIEBERG: To help us at the Consumer Electronics Show. There's a lot to see and do, here, Fredricka. But this theme was sort of having your entertainment with you, in your pocket, if you will, on the go.

WHITFIELD: Unbelievable. All right, thanks very much, Dan.

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Aired January 10, 2004 - 16:24   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDERICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Las Vegas is known as sin city, right? This week it's more like tech city as it plays host to the Consumer Electronics Show. Tens of thousands of visitors are taking in the newest gadgets. CNN's Daniel Sieberg is one of them.
Dan?

DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Fredricka.

If there's a theme to this story we're going to be talking about here, it's maybe accessing your entertainment on the go, wirelessly, while you're moving around. You just can't be away from it, at anytime. Joining us is Brian Cooley, editor-at-large at CNET.

Brian, let's talk about this first one. I guess it has a security feature to it, in addition to being a little fun, as well?

BRIAN COOLEY, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, CNET: Frankly, it's a lot of fun.

SIEBERG: Right.

COOLEY: What these are, they are wireless Internet cameras. They're like casino cameras that we're seeing here in Vegas. But they connect using wi-fi, so they're easy to put around your house. No cables to drag around.

Then you can watch your home, baby-sitter cams, think of that. Watch your cats like I do. Here's my phone that has a web browser in it. I have some of these cameras at home. The picture on that phone, right now, is live from my home in Northern California, watching my cats in the living room.

SIEBERG: What's the speed like? Does it refresh fairly quickly?

COOLEY: It is very gradual refresh. It's more slide show than live video. But as these phone needs to get faster, these guys are up to the task, the phones needs to get faster. And then you will have, literally, home surveillance video in your pocket -- or on any web browser. They're really cool.

SIEBERG: These are available now?

COOLEY: They're coming out in Q1 from Panasonic. It is a whole new relaunch, and a lot of companies are doing these. This is a total breakout category coming up in Q1.

SIEBERG: OK, Brian, let's move on to the next one. This one is also video on the go. This is live television on your cell phone.

COOLEY: This is live TV on a sprint cell phone. They're offering this right now in their service. But other companies are definitely going to do this. You select just like a menu on your normal phone. But you see channel lists here.

SIEBERG: Certain channels, right? Not every channel, they have partnered with some channels.

COOLEY: That's right. They're partners. You don't really tune television on this thing. But it's pretty good as a list. And you can select the channel you want to watch and then you end up tuning it live on your display.

Again, like you mentioned the frame rate, the rate of video is a little bit sluggish. But the audio is always right on. When you're stuck on a train or a plane or something and the taxiway, this is really cool.

SIEBERG: Potentially, not an additional fee?

COOLEY: There actually is a fee of $9.99 a month for this on some plans. And there are credits as such. You know how those cell phone plans are. Plus you're eating up minutes. They love that.

SIEBERG: They love that.

Let's move on to the last one. We've got about 40 seconds left. This looks like the large I-Pod.

COOLEY: A company called Max Sense (ph) does this one. Think of the radio you take out into the yard in the summer when you are working in the garden or something. This is a wi-fi version, which means it uses wi-fi wireless networking to play the MP3s on your PC.

As those are stuck in your home office now, they can come with you. You're out in the garage, you are working on the car, you take this guy out, turn this knob to select a piece of music, press that and that's it.

SIEBERG: And it has FM radio, just in case, as well.

COOLEY: Just in case, there is FM, as well

SIEBERG: All right. Brian Cooley, editor-at-large at CNET, thanks so much for joining us.

COOLEY: Thanks, Dan.

SIEBERG: To help us at the Consumer Electronics Show. There's a lot to see and do, here, Fredricka. But this theme was sort of having your entertainment with you, in your pocket, if you will, on the go.

WHITFIELD: Unbelievable. All right, thanks very much, Dan.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com