This will enable CE manufacturers to provide wireless display connectivity with best-of-breed video quality and practically zero latency at an extremely attractive price points.
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Sure enough, the software giant came through this week with an announcement of a joint venture with Socket Communications to offer wireless modems for its Palm wannabe Windows CE, sometime this fall.
The company hopes its device will get European approval via a CE mark later this year.
Best Buy, GameStop, hhgregg, are all suffering from CE sales doldrums this holiday season.
This isn't a normal CE DVD player here. (i.e. think Toshiba's first-gen HD DVD player but only bigger) It weighs in at an impressive 17lbs and seems to be built solid.
This lets developers test and debug applications that use CE-HTML video streams.
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We believe this holiday will show WMT is gaining share and traction in CE.
This is already being done in various pay-TV and CE connected device implemenations thanks to various companies like Rovi.
Hillcrest has already signed agreements with CE manufacturers that will bring the Scoop pointer to market later this year, under their own brand names.
But before we tell you to jump past the break to check out the short demo, we want to break the news to you that this UI was created just to show off the capabilities of the new CE platform -- there's no plan to bring it to market as is on Microsoft's end at the moment.
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