In close vicinity to the LG booth were the booths of the Blu-ray Disc Association and HD-DVD Promotion Group. Each of these booths had feature-length movies running on some of the best commercially available television sets. We didn’t talk to either of these organizations about their products, because quite frankly, we don’t really care which one comes out on top. Both formats offer superior quality and playback to anything we have now, so either way is a tremendous step forward.


Our next stop was Samsung, where we asked one of the representatives where we could find the gaming monitors. The Samsung booth was quite large, and everything looked pretty similar so we couldn’t spot the monitors we were looking for right off the bat. Samsung’s latest gaming-oriented monitor looks to be the 932BF, which is a 19” monitor with a 2000:1 contrast ratio and a 2ms response time. Though we did not see the 932C on display, nor do we know if it even exists, it will probably be the flagship gaming monitor from Samsung, as it will be replacing the 931C.


The central hall was jam packed with major manufacturers that we had to stop by. Our second to last stop was the Sony booth, where we were interested to see what they were showing for the Playstation 3. In comparison with E3, the PS3 contingent at CES was rather underwhelming. This was expected though, considering E3 was a video gaming event and CES is consumer electronics event. There was nothing really new being displayed in terms of the PS3, but Sony did have several OLED products on display that were very cool. We have known that OLED based monitors would be pretty spectacular for a long time now so we weren’t overly amazed at what we saw. It should be interesting to see the prices placed on these monitors and how long they end up lasting. We have previously reported that the nature of OLED displays makes them inherently last only about 1 year, so if the price is right then this may or may not be a great option in the near future.


On the way out of the Central Hall we made a quick stop by the Sharp booth where the world's largest LCD TV was on display. 108 inches of pixels looks good no matter where you stand, and having a pretty model standing next to it for scale purposes doesn't hurt either. We'll take two of these for our office please!