What are you hoping for at CES?

I'll be in the market for at least one new TV next year. A small one for the bedroom - maybe 50" but also a large one if the technology is ready.

I'll be hoping Pioneer and Panasonic are showing off the next gen plasmas.

Things I'd want over the current Kuro 9G
1 LARGER SCREEN - hopefully an 80" model that is below $10K (for the living room - no, I don't have the space for a projector in my apartment).
2 Quieter - I don't want to hear any buzz
3 Faster Motion - I don't want any jittery movement
4 More vivid colors
5 Brighter/Whiter (with black blacks still - not just cranked up)
6 Thinner, lighter

This is by no means a complaint about the current 9Gs - I'm just stating what areas I'd like to see an improvement over the current tech - there will always be something better every year but since I can wait, I'll wait to see what next year brings.

I'll definitely be trying to compare the plasmas to the new laser and 240hz LCDs.

KLee, is this the year we actually see the new panels - I know they've been talking about a new manufacturing process with fewer defects, lower costs, lower weight, better power consumption for a while but wasn't sure if it was on schedule.


Sharpbandaid, I saw SED years ago at CES when it was supposed to be released soon - looked great, I'll admit I hoped it would have progressed beyond the legal issues long ago. If they do revive it as they keep saying they will, chances are it will be another 5 years before we see one of a size that is worth getting (unless of course you need a display for your bathroom or kitchen). Of course all the promised lower costs of SED won't be realized either since it will be in smaller production than other technologies. Chances are LCD, Laser and Plasma or even OLED will be so good by then SED will have nothing to offer over the others - just my opinion of course.

Who knows if the legal battle hadn't occurred I'd be looking at a 65" SED this year at CES and getting an SED for the bedroom and waiting til the following year for an 80" in the living room but thanks to a major screw up I'll probably never own an SED. I realize your comment was tongue in cheek but I needed to vent as I had such high hopes for SED.

I'm not familiar with a non priming plasma.

I would like wireless HDMI as well. But considering the issues with standard wired HDMI I'm not convinced they are ready to release wireless HDMI.

Perhaps when they release HDMI 2.0 we'll see an end to lipsync, loose connections, jitter etc.

Anyone at CES going to be looking for a screen larger than 70"? Not as in a $150,000 one but something they want to put in their non bill gates owned home?

At the Pioneer demo last year, they had a survey form to fill out what it was you were looking for in your next plasma with a bunch of check marks for darker darks and things like that. I HATE questionaires that only ask questions that they already are working on - e.g. MS survey while beta testing VISTA - are transparent borders important to you you - yes, no - no place in the survey to tell them that Vista is SLOW.

So I manually wrote at the top and bottom of the survey - BIGGER THAN 70"