Skip to content

TechRepublic

  • Top Products Lists
  • AI
  • Developer
  • Payroll
  • Security
  • Project Management
  • TechRepublic Academy
  • Innovation
  • Cheat Sheets
  • Cloud
  • 5G
  • Big Data
  • TechRepublic Premium
  • Top Products Lists
  • AI
  • Developer
  • Payroll
  • Security
  • Project Management
  • TechRepublic Academy
  • Innovation
  • Cheat Sheets
  • Cloud
  • 5G
  • Big Data
  • See All Topics
  • Sponsored
  • Newsletters
  • Forums
  • Resource Library
TechRepublic Premium
Join / Sign In
CES 2020

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

By Andy Smith January 8, 2012, 9:08 PM PST

Image
1
of 18

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntCES held its first show in 1967 and throughout the years it has been the launching pad for many wildly popular devices as well as many huge duds. Here’s a look at some of the more notable pieces that made it on the stage.

n

ntIn 1970 Philips showed off one of the first VCRs for consumers that sold for about $2,000. This Philips N1500 model was available in the early 1970s

n

ntCredit: Colin99 (Colin McCormick) at English Wikipedia

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntLaser discs, which first appeared at CES in 1974, were of better video and audio quality than VHS or Betamax videocassetes, you can see their biggest problem above – their size (compared here to a regular-sized DVD disc.

n

ntSource: Kevin586

n

nt 

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntHere’s Atari’s Pong Home Console which appeared at CES in 1975.

n

ntCredit: Wikipedia

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntThe 1976 CES show was given credit for making digital watches mainstream. In the early 1970s, LCD watches that used less battery power gained popularity over the LED watches which required you to push a button to read the time and save power. Texas Instruments was able to reduce their cost down to $10 each by 1976.

n

ntCredit: Flip R

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntCompact disc players were an upgrade to Laserdiscs and appeared in 1981.

n

ntCredit: Arun Kulshreshtha, Wikipedia

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntThe 8-bit Commodore 64 which made its debut in 1982 turned out to be the best-selling personal computer of all time.

n

ntCredit: Evan-Amos

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntA prototype of the Amiga computer was displayed at summer CES 1984. It proved to be a lower cost alternative to the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh.

n

nt
ntCredit: Kaiiv, de.wikipedia

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntNintendos wildly popular 8-bit video game console took CES 1985 by a storm.

n

ntCredit: Evan-Amos

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntThe video game Tetris, published by Spectrum Holobyte for IBM PC and Commodore 64, was the big hit at CES 1988.

n

ntCredit: Wikipedia

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntThe DVD which was designed to replace CDs debuted at CES in 1996.

n

ntSource: Wikipedia

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntDigital Video Recorders used to record and store videos in a digital format onto a disk drive were revealed at Comdex in 1999.

n

ntCredit: Whats new?, Wikipedia

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntXbox made its public debut at the 2001 CES show.

n

nt
ntCredit: Microsoft

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntHD DVD was a high format disk technology designed to be the next genereation DVD. It was developed at the same time as Sony’s Blu-ray technology and was introduced to the public at CES in 2004. Although they were cheaper, HD DVDs lacked the quality and space of Blu-rays and eventually were phased out beginning in mid-2008.
nt
ntSource: Ofahcuts, Wikipedia

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntBlu-ray technology also made an appearance at CES in 2004.

n

nt
ntCredit: Wikipedia

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntThe digital video recorder appeared at the 1999 show.

n

ntCredit: TiVo

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

nt3D was big in 2009.

n

ntCredit: CNET

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntLike many manufacturers, CES has been the launching pad for products that never really took off. In 2010, everybody was talking about netbooks like this one from The PsiXpda.

n

ntCredit: CNET

Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

ntIn 2011 the talk was tablets. Here’s the Spiderpodium Tablet from Breffo.

n

ntCredit: Breffo

  • CES 2020
  • Account Information

    Share with Your Friends

    Products that made a splash at CES (photos)

    Your email has been sent

Share: Products that made a splash at CES (photos)
Image of Andy Smith
By Andy Smith
  • Account Information

    Contact Andy Smith

    Your message has been sent

  • |
  • See all of Andy's content

TechRepublic Premium

  • TechRepublic Premium

    Cross-training tool kit

    The more flexibility you can create in your technology workforce, the better you’ll be equipped to manage tomorrow, whatever the future brings. Too often, we focus on helping our teams become technical specialists who know volumes about a single technology, but quickly lose sight of how that technology connects with others. This makes their skills ...

    Downloads
    Published:  May 30, 2023, 4:00 PM EDT Modified:  May 31, 2023, 12:14 PM EDT Read More See more TechRepublic Premium
  • TechRepublic Premium

    Document retention policy

    The purpose of this policy from TechRepublic Premium is to provide guidelines for the appropriate retention and disposal of physical and electronic documents. Specifically, this policy establishes and describes how the company expects its employees to manage company information (whether electronic files, hard copies or other formats) from creation through destruction, according to applicable laws ...

    Downloads
    Published:  May 30, 2023, 4:00 PM EDT Modified:  May 31, 2023, 8:45 AM EDT Read More See more TechRepublic Premium
  • TechRepublic Premium

    Checklist: How to manage your backups

    PURPOSE Backups are essential to any IT job. Some consider backups as the most critical tasks in an administrator’s day. Why? Because when a backup is done correctly (and performed regularly), recovering from a disaster is less of a nightmare and more of an inconvenience. Without those backups, your business could be non-operational for some ...

    Downloads
    Published:  May 29, 2023, 4:00 PM EDT Modified:  May 30, 2023, 3:04 PM EDT Read More See more TechRepublic Premium
  • TechRepublic Premium

    Hiring kit: Prompt engineer

    PURPOSE Recruiting a prompt engineer with the right combination of industry knowledge, organizational awareness, experience and technical expertise will require a comprehensive screening process. This hiring kit from TechRepublic Premium provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find the right person for the job. From the hiring kit: DETERMINING FACTORS, DESIRABLE PERSONALITY TRAITS, ...

    Published:  May 29, 2023, 4:00 PM EDT Modified:  May 30, 2023, 8:37 AM EDT Read More See more TechRepublic Premium

Services

  • About Us
  • Manage Profile
  • Newsletters
  • RSS Feeds
  • Site Map
  • Site Help & Feedback
  • FAQ
  • Advertise
  • Do Not Sell My Information

Explore

  • Downloads
  • TechRepublic Forums
  • Meet the Team
  • TechRepublic Academy
  • TechRepublic Premium
  • Resource Library
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • TechRepublic
  • TechRepublic on Twitter
  • TechRepublic on Facebook
  • TechRepublic on LinkedIn
  • TechRepublic on Flipboard
© 2023 TechnologyAdvice. All rights reserved.
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Property of TechnologyAdvice