We're here in Las Vegas, for SyncTV's first-ever CES show. It's a great time to see what's coming down the pipeline, and it's no different for SyncTV. At this year's CES this year we are doing private demonstrations of a device that will play downloads from the SyncTV TV download service (including 1080p HD video content) on a television set.

The device is a proof-of-concept, which we are showing to third-party manufacturers at CES to help them on their way to develop SyncTV compatible devices. Because SyncTV was designed to work directly on Consumer Electronics devices, in the future we expect SyncTV to be available on TV sets, in-car video systems, set-top-boxes, DVD players, and portable media players.

As a company, we are committed to open standards for all of our communication protocols and data formats, which makes it easier for developers to create devices to support the service. And as more compatible devices are created, people will see the benefits of the flexible playback that we baked in to the service.

There's a press release with a little more information here:
www.synctv.com/presskit

If you're interested in finding out about which protocols
and data formats we use, check them out here:
www.synctv.com/standards

We're going to get back to the madness which is CES, but if you're at the show, feel free to stop by and say hi. We're at the Pioneer Electronics booth, number 9827 in the Central Hall.

John Gildred