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CES 2007: Emerson's DVD/iPod Microphone Converter

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You only have to look at the photos of the Shiny Media Christmas party held at Lucky Voice in London to see just how much we get into our karaoke, so with news today that Emerson have launched a new microphone converter to work with DVDs and iPods made us all a tad bit overexcited. Priced at just $29.95, you can connect the converter to any DVD player or video-capable MP3 player – for instance iPods, allowing your own crooning to blend with whatever tunes you have clogging up your iPod. You can also pick up a ‘Rockin’ Party’ 16 song DVD to sing along to if you are one of the fortunate unfortunate souls who haven’t yet succombed to Steve Jobs’s persuasive ways.

Katherine Hannaford CES 2007, Gadgets, Home audio, MP3 players

CES 2007: Norcent's Plasma HD Televisions

Norcent_42inch_screen.jpgAdmittedly the name Norcent doesn’t ring a bell with me, and when I was telling this to their representative at CES Unveiled today, he wasn’t surprised. Although their plasma HD televisions are amazingly well-priced (the 42″ PT-4246HD shown here is just $1,199), due to their shortlived status (they launched their own consumer brand in 2001), they’ve been unable to compete with huge brand such as Sony and Samsung who have really impressed the HD market. Although not sold in the European market, and with no plans to do so any time soon, they’re available in Walmart and Circuit City throughout America. From what I saw today, there were no discernable differences between Norcent HD and Sony for instance, it’s simply the unknown brand-name which is letting them down. You have to start somewhere, folks.

Katherine Hannaford CES 2007, HDTV, Home cinema, TVs