SignOnSanDiego.com > Digital home finally becoming a reality?: "LAS VEGAS - Could this be the year that the so-called digital home is ready for prime time?
Soaring sales of digital cameras, cell phones and portable music players have made the emergence of the digital home the mantra of this year's Consumer Electronics Show, which kicked off yesterday in Las Vegas.
Trouble is, the digital revolution has been the theme of this trade show, attended by 120,000 people, for the past three or so years.
By now, most households were expected to be watching high definition digital televisions, recording favorite TV shows on computer hard drives and storing reams of songs and photos on networked computers.
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But in reality, the revolution to all things digital has advanced at a trickle rather than a flood, held up concerns over piracy and by technology that was too clumsy or too expensive.
'Convergence has been something like the weather: Everybody talks about it but nobody does much about it,' said Ed Whitacre, chief executive of SBC Communications.
This year, many companies think the digital transformation has more substance than style. Sales of MP3 players tripled last year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. Plasma TV sales jumped 75 percent. Digital camera sales rose 16 percent. "
By Mike Freeman
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
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