Shows and launches

It's been a manic 24 hours here at CES, with press conferences virtually every hour and the entire whathifi.com team running from A to B like mad things to bring you up-to-the-minute news.It started with LG at 8am yesterday (fortunately jet lag ...

After a 10 hour flight we've just touched down in Las Vegas, and while it's the middle of the night back in the UK, we're busy gearing up for the opening of the biggest consumer electronics show on the planet here in Nevada.The Las Vegas ...

The van is unpacked, the stand is built and we're running the final tests on our demonstration room here at ExCel as we gear up for the start of the What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision Show at 10am this morning.So what do we have in store? Well, we've ...

Anything for anyone seems to be the motto here at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair - whether you want to launch your own brand of TVs,  get into the iPod dock business or make it big in batteries, there's a supplier here ready to offer an ...

If you can connect it to an iPod, or stick an iPod in it, chances are there's a factory making it out here, and showing it at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair.And that's quite apart from the endless new generation iPod nano and Shuffle lookalikes ...

The Hong Kong Electronics Fair, which opened yesterday at the waterfront Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, is big.Very big. This is only one of the two Fairs held here each year - it's the Autumn Edition, with the Spring version due ...

Three things strike you about the International Audio Show, held each year in Tokyo: one is the venue, the second is that it's free, and the third is the fanaticism of the attendees.It used to be called the Import Audio Show, but in recent times ...

My day at the show rounded up with a panel discussion on Blu-ray, and how it sits in the Japanese and world markets right now.Well, I say a panel discussion - most of the time was taken up with a lengthy diatribe by reviewer Reiji Asakura about ...

Just in case you thought I'd been at the Yebisu a bit too enthusiastically before wittering on about the au by KDDI 1Gbps internet access plan in the news section, here's the proof of it in action. OK, so it's not delivering the full speed of ...

The guy on the left is searching for visible means of support, but finding none - this is Toshiba's prototype Regza Wall TV, designed to be used free-standing, without either stand or wall-bracket.With its over-square upright shape it's not going ...