The world's largest consumer electronics show is back with a bang. While the number of exhibitors dropped by about 200 from last year's show, due to the economic slump, attendees appear to have risen to over 120,000 people. The site was packed with visitors searching for hints on getting the market back on a high-growth track. People from electronics manufacturers flocked to the three-dimensional (3D) imagery offered by TV manufacturers, backed up by major content providers, and growth markets such as e-book readers.
In the United States 4.3 million sets will be 3D in 2010, and by 2013 a quarter of all sets will be 3D, said the TV sales volume forecast issued by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) just before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) began. The home electronics industry is focused on the demand that 3D imagery will generate.
The main driver at CES was 3D imagery again this year, with leading home electronics manufacturers featuring exhibitions of 3D TVs and other futuristic technology (Fig. 1). This show was different from last year's in that major manufacturers including Panasonic Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Sony Corp. not only displayed 3D-capable Blu-ray Disc (BD) players, TV sets and other equipment slated for sale in spring through summer 2010, but also announced that major content providers would be offering 3D imagery for the home in a big way.
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