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| Every year CES seems to get larger and larger, adding more categories to the mix. Fortunately, here at AudioRevolution.com we have a special niche and don’t have to wear out the old shoe leather to see absolutely everything on display. This year, there were a lot of fine new products, giving consumers even greater home theater choices. Except for MP3 Audio, there was little in the way of new technology, as HDTV is still trying to get a foothold in the marketplace. Dolby Digital, DTS and DVD players now seem to be a fact of life, yet DVD-Audio and Super Audio-CD are still languishing with relatively little software to make the formats commercially viable. Speaker packages are ever more popular, due to consumers wanting little to do with mixing and matching. To further the goal of still higher sales, many companies are finding new and unique methods of packaging speakers for easier and less confusing installation. Ultra high-end audio/video is still a crowd-pleaser, but most companies are banking on profits from lower-priced A/V Receivers with a slew of features that only a year ago would have cost twice as much. So, for details of the sights and sounds of CES 2000, check out the individual categories below. |
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Ultimate Home Theater: Prices plummit - performance soars for 2000. The best AV receivers and preamps from CES. |
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Loudspeakers: Wilson WATCH, MartinLogan Prodigy and API Athena's promoted speaker oriented drooling. |
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TVS and Rear Projectors: 16x9 and 1080i were the buzz words with TVs. Here are the best TVs and rear projectors from CES. |
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Electronics: SACD and DVD-Audio were the buzz, Levinson No. 40, No. 383, Evett & Shaw Pesaro and Oricle CD spaceship were hot properties. |
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Affordable AV: You'll be shocked to see what $500 or less gets you for a theater. |
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Internet Audio and MP3: MP3 is more popular than sex on the net. Sony and RAVE MP have super cool (and tiny) players. |
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