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Photos: Screening the options at CeBit

By · July 18, 2006, 8:42 AM PST · billdetwiler

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  • At 103 inches, this high-definition screen from Panasonic, on display at the CeBit show in Hannover, Germany, could help redefine home entertainment. It could also require some serious home renovations.

    Charles McLellan/ZDNet UK

  • This 56-inch display from Chi Mei Optoelectronics is just half the size of the Panasonic wallboard, but it still dwarfs most television screens.

    Charles McLellan/ZDNet UK

  • If one big screen doesn't work for you, how about a wall full of smaller displays? You wouldn't have to watch the same game on all of them, of course.

    Rainer Jensen/DPA

  • Microsoft's small and unobtrusive Ultra Mobile PC stand belies the oversize hype that led up to the debut of the company's Origami technology on the first day of CeBit.

    Charles McLellan/ZDNet UK

  • While Microsoft's design for handhelds relies on standard components, this prototype laptop from NEC uses a fuel cell as its main power source. The Japanese computer maker says the methanol-powered system runs for 10 hours on a single fuel cartridge.

    Charles McLellan/ZDNet UK

  • Also from NEC: the 3-DLP-chip NC2500S cinema projector.

    Charles McLellan/ZDNet UK

At 103 inches, this high-definition screen from Panasonic, on display at the CeBit show in Hannover, Germany, could help redefine home entertainment. It could also require some serious home renovations.

Charles McLellan/ZDNet UK

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