Every year, technology fans eagerly await the Consumer Electronics Show for news about the tech appliances they love for their homes and offices. This year’s show should be a big one in the HDTV marketplace.

This year’s show should see a number of interesting technological breakthroughs and refinements to the HDTV marketplace. In this first full year of all-digital television, and with the much wider acceptance of HDTV by consumers, fueled by dropping prices, the innovations introduced this year will be reaching a wider field of consumers than ever before. There are a number of important enhancements likely this year, according to a recent CNET article.

We are likely to see incremental increases in internet connectivity. All through this last year, hardware from major vendors like Panasonic and Samsung were introduced with network connectivity and the ability to use media from internet sources, including video, music, and photos. We should see more of this at this year’s show. Some observers are also looking forward to the capability to stream internet video directly to your television screen from internet sources like Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu.

The products at this year’s CES are also likely to be more green than in previous years. One major area of innovation is likely to be power consumption, as the world continues to worry about the overuse of oil and the state of the economy. It is reasonable to expect more of the HDTVs at this years big show to come with much better Energy Star ratings, building on that system as a guide to electricity consumption. And, of course, some of the newer HDTV technologies, such as OLED and LED, are much more miserly with electricity than were earlier television technologies.

When taken together with improvements in speed (how about 240Hz!), thinner flat panels, dejudder processing, and the aforementioned OLED and LED processes, better internet connectivity and greener hardware should make this a memorable year for HDTV, even if there are no major breakthroughs announced at this year’s CES gathering.

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Entry was posted on Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 pm under Green Technology, Internet, Technology.

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