Other Gear That Caught our Eyes
Sennheiser
Sennheiser MXW1

Sennheiser announced the MX W1 set of fully wireless headphones, available in May 2008. Using a wireless technology developed by Kleer Corporation allows the full audio bandwidth that you would get in a wired headphone set. The transmitter is about the size of a matchbox, and there are two bud style ear-pieces that can be recharged up to three times from the battery in the carrying case so you don't have to scramble to find a plug in the field. Another useful feature is the ability two use two sets of ear pieces with the same transmitter simultaneously, allowing the director and the soundman to both hear the camera audio at the same time.

Casio
Casio EX-F1

Casio wowed the crowds with its new still photo camera the EX-F1 (price unavailable). Aside from the digital camera aspects, it appears to be a highly capable high definition video camera as well. The video taken from one of the prototypes proved very impressive. This model incorporates a high speed CMOS sensor and a high speed LSI processor. With this model, Casio has achieved an ultra-high speed 60 frames per second (fps) burst rate for still images, together with 1,200 fps high speed movie recording that captures movement faster than the eye can see for ultra-slow motion replay. Moreover, the new model can record movies at full High-Definition. Users can record movies at a screen size of 1920 x 1080 pixels, at a rate of 60 fields per second. To be released this spring.

Western Digital
Western Digital

Western Digital managed to pack a whopping 320 Gigabytes of storage into it's new Passport Portable Drive 320 ($229.99). The same pocket sized form factor, bus powered, and simple USB connectivity as before but this sharp increase in storage capacity puts almost a third of a terabyte of digital storage in the palm of your hand.

A trade show like CES is a fun yet tiring event to attend: so much to see, so little time to see it all!

We met with HP, Netgear, and a host of other companies, including Pinnacle, who showed off the new free download "VideoSpin"; and Nero, with its latest Nero Ultra 8 edition.

Both softwares combine multiple uses, and you can see all of our video reviews at videomaker.com/video-news/category/ces/ for video stories from the show floor, and watch for reviews on some of these products coming as soon as we can wrangle them from the manufacturers hands!

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