It's that time again. This week CES 2009 will begin, and Orbitcast will be there in full force delivering up-to-the-minute live coverage of the world's largest technology event.
With Sirius and XM now a combined company there's no longer the need for two booths at CES (that is, if you consider XM's presence last year even a "booth," despite the hidden technology being incredible cool to see).
Since Directed Electronics and Sirius' relationship has gone sour, they're no longer sharing booth space together as they've done in prior year. Instead, it looks like they'll be utlizing a smaller space in the North Hall. When I last spoke with Mel Karmazin, he mentioned that the interoperable radios will be making a showing at CES - but that was a few months back, so there's no way to know, for sure.
Also absent from the show will be Delphi, which only had a corner dedicated to satellite radio last year anyway (and, I must admit, I'll miss the free beer).
Still, there will be plenty to see.
Last year, a very exciting keynote was delivered by GM CEO Rick Wagoner - marking the first time an automaker executive addressed the CES crowd. And while nothing about satellite radio was mentioned (though there was plenty of talk about OnStar), Wagoner did unveil the Cadillac Provoq concept car - also a first at CES. It was fun, exciting, and very flashy.
This year, the automakers' presence is a bit more humbled (for good reason). Still, Ford CEO Alan Mulally will deliver a keynote address and I'm sure we'll hear plenty about Ford Sync.I'll definitely be attending the the keynote to get a sense of innovation in the industry.
Blaupunkt and miRoamer will be announcing a partnership and unveiling in-vehicle internet radio - for the first time you'll be able to get internet radio in your car's dashboard. That, obviously, is very interesting to me and I'll be covering that in detail.
Also, Slacker will be in town, though off-site from the rest of the mayhem at the convention center. Without a doubt I'll be covering everything that Slacker has to announce.
HD Radio will be there, unfortunately. I'll be covering them as I did last year, under much duress.
There's other unaffiliated events in Las Vegas that I will be attending as well, such as ShowStoppers and Digital Experience, not to mention a Blogger party at The Venetian. At each event there will be several exhibitors related to the digital radio arena, so expect lots of coverage there as well.
I'll be sending live Twitter updates throughout, as well as having a constant 3G connection direct from the show floor (so as to avoid any issues like last year). So strap in folks! Orbitcast's CES 2009 coverage begins on Wednesday (Press day) and kicks into overdrive starting on Thursday.
Since Directed Electronics and Sirius' relationship has gone sour, they're no longer sharing booth space together as they've done in prior year. Instead, it looks like they'll be utlizing a smaller space in the North Hall. When I last spoke with Mel Karmazin, he mentioned that the interoperable radios will be making a showing at CES - but that was a few months back, so there's no way to know, for sure.
Also absent from the show will be Delphi, which only had a corner dedicated to satellite radio last year anyway (and, I must admit, I'll miss the free beer).
Still, there will be plenty to see.
Last year, a very exciting keynote was delivered by GM CEO Rick Wagoner - marking the first time an automaker executive addressed the CES crowd. And while nothing about satellite radio was mentioned (though there was plenty of talk about OnStar), Wagoner did unveil the Cadillac Provoq concept car - also a first at CES. It was fun, exciting, and very flashy.
This year, the automakers' presence is a bit more humbled (for good reason). Still, Ford CEO Alan Mulally will deliver a keynote address and I'm sure we'll hear plenty about Ford Sync.I'll definitely be attending the the keynote to get a sense of innovation in the industry.
Blaupunkt and miRoamer will be announcing a partnership and unveiling in-vehicle internet radio - for the first time you'll be able to get internet radio in your car's dashboard. That, obviously, is very interesting to me and I'll be covering that in detail.
Also, Slacker will be in town, though off-site from the rest of the mayhem at the convention center. Without a doubt I'll be covering everything that Slacker has to announce.
HD Radio will be there, unfortunately. I'll be covering them as I did last year, under much duress.
There's other unaffiliated events in Las Vegas that I will be attending as well, such as ShowStoppers and Digital Experience, not to mention a Blogger party at The Venetian. At each event there will be several exhibitors related to the digital radio arena, so expect lots of coverage there as well.
I'll be sending live Twitter updates throughout, as well as having a constant 3G connection direct from the show floor (so as to avoid any issues like last year). So strap in folks! Orbitcast's CES 2009 coverage begins on Wednesday (Press day) and kicks into overdrive starting on Thursday.
yay slacker
Interoperable radios? Those, and a la carte radios are not really necessary any more since the consolidation.
hopefully a sirius stiletto 3.........
I still don't get the animosity toward HD Radio. What did they do to you personally?
I'll be there as well. Sirius XM only has a very, very small booth right along the wall. So don't expect anything new from them. Things have really done downhill from the days when they had huge booths with live broadcasting (O&A, etc...) back in 2005/2006.
Gotta love being self employed and claiming the trip to CES as a "business expense". Have fun paying for part of my expenses, you taxpayers :P
Meh the trade show I go to in Vegas and other parts of the country have more free beer and food than CES does. Well mostly because it is a trade show for food, candy, beer, etc. Gotta love the girls that work the beer booths and the energy drink booths oh and larry flint and heff send a ton of talent to the shows as well.
I'm happy to see that Delphi won't be there. They really fell off since the whole skyfi 3 freezing issues that they wouldn't resolve.
Well dumb ass this is a SAT radio blog not a dumb HD blog. HD radio sucks and is not worth money. interoperable radios could still be cool if they improve reception plus for sports fans it is nice cause you can hear all play by play.
Looking foward to CES...I know G4 will also be having live coverage. Don't know if this is the first time they are doing this.
Go Slacker! Screw Mel!
I think as far as new technology goes, as well as programming, this company will be dead in the water for at least another year.
After that, well, it might just be dead. Lots of debt needs to be renegotiated this year, and I just don't see it happening. About a month to go on the first repayment, and nothing major announced yet.
If the rumors of CH 11 are true, all contracts are nullified and must be renegotiated, including the car deals. Rock and a hard place.
Why are they spending money on this? I wonder how many people they'll be sending out to this show. Hopefully they're not staying at a hotel on the Strip and trying to save some $$$. I doubt it though.