CeBit 2005

[communist]

A little late but for anyone interested in seeing some of the gadgets that were shown there - follow the link (http://www.stud.uni-goettingen.de/~s304280/pics/CeBit2005/) :)

What was the most talked and shown stuff?
- H.264 , from players to encoders to integration into cell-phone (Samsung)
- HDTV
- BluRay vs HDDVD (incl. storing solutions using JVC blu-ray disk arrays)
- PMPs (portable media players)

[Koepi]

Funny that you're from the same city as I am. We might have met on the CeBIT... or at the students networking meetings ;)

Cheers from a few meters next to you,

Koepi

[DigitAl56K]

No wonder Blu-ray hasn't really taken off yet, just look at the design issues we're still facing:

http://www.stud.uni-goettingen.de/~s304280/pics/CeBit2005/IMG_0077.JPG

The disc is twice as large as the burner!

It's a similar story with this hardware encoder:

http://www.stud.uni-goettingen.de/~s304280/pics/CeBit2005/IMG_0084.JPG

and who has a case big enough to fit this life-sized RAM?

http://www.stud.uni-goettingen.de/~s304280/pics/CeBit2005/IMG_0040.JPG

Oh dear.... ;)

[Soulhunter]

Huh, whats this 1300GB thingy there ???

http://www.stud.uni-goettingen.de/~s304280/pics/CeBit2005/IMG_0103.JPG


EDIT: Ok, already found some info...
SAIT technology is the latest concept in high-capacity and high-performance recording targeted at enterprise storage markets. SAIT technology utilizes a half-inch, single-reel cartridge and provides over twice the uncompressed capacity of the nearest linear half-inch tape drive. Sony Electronics is raising the stakes for high-capacity backup with a line of branded tape drives based on its SAIT-1 format. The 500GB native capacity of the SAIT-1 drives will exceed that of any other tape drive currently on the market by at least two-fold, making them an ideal choice for both server and network backup. With the ability to store up to 1.3 TB of compressed data on a half-inch tape cartridge, SAIT-1 is the first standalone drive to break the 1 TB capacity barrier. Sustained data transfer rates for the drives will reach up to 78 MB per second (30 MB/sec native) for efficient data recording and fast data recovery.
Bye

[Inventive Software]

There's some interesting stuff. Anyone see the Samsung mobile phone that has MPEG-4 Audio and Video support? Could be interesting...

[communist]

Originally posted by Koepi
Funny that you're from the same city as I am. We might have met on the CeBIT... or at the students networking meetings ;)

Could be but I didn attend any meetings at CeBit - too much to look and not enough time :D