CES 2009

Some history on the Paso Digital Film Festival

and its birth at the 2008 Consumer Electronic Show...

THE DIGITAL ECONOMY IS ABOUT TO UNFOLD

...while attending CES in Las Vegas in 08, I was starting to see the realization of

the importance of a "DIGITAL festival". It was obvious to me from what I was

seeing happen to the music and print business, and after the past two CES shows,

it was clear that the DIGITAL future was now...so the Paso Robles Film Festival

became the Paso DIGITAL Film Festival...the next few pages are to give

some ideas where the present future is and where we wanted to take

thePDFF.com

Gary Shapiro, President of CES gives

us a pose after we have chat about

last time we met him with Les Paul

Tom Hanks with Sir Howard Stringer

CEO of Sony Corp Stringer unveiled proto

types of video bifocals and bendable TVs

AND THE DIGITAL WINNER IS:

The Eye-Fi Video Card! Though this

product is still in the process of develop-

ment, the crowd at CES felt it deserved to

be the winner of the Last Gadget Standing competition. An SD card with Wi-Fi built-

in, the Eye-Fi Video Card lets you send images and video from your digital camera.

THE DIGITAL EMERGENCE IS HERE

SEE MORE AT PASO DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL

EXHIBIT INFO HERE

2009 INTERNATIONAL CES ELECTRIFIES AND ELICITS

OPTIMISM FOR GLOBAL ECONOMY

Technologies Launched at 2009 CES Set the Tone for Innovation

and Fuel Global Technology Industry

Las Vegas, Nevada, January 11, 09 – More than 2,700 global companies, including 300

new exhibitors, unveiled an estimated 20,000 new technology products across 1.7 million

net square feet of exhibit space this week at the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow, electrifying the technology industry and helping lead the way to economic

recovery. New trends unveiled at the 2009 CES will shape the future of consumer ele-

tronics, including 3D HDTV, advances in OLED, green technologies, Internet TV and

digital entertainment, and 130,000 people showed up to see into the digital future...

Jeopardy host Alex Trebek joins actresses Elizabeth McGovern

and Aisha Tyler and "Dancing with the Stars" host Tom Bergeron

for a live broadcast of Celebrity Jeopardy from the 09 CES.

The Wireless Industry and The National Center for Missing &

Exploited Children Join the U.S. Department of Justice in

Recognizing AMBER Alert Awareness Day

WASHINGTON, DC – January 12, 2009 – AMBER Alert Awareness Day takes place on January 13, the thirteenth anniversary of a tragic child abduction in Texas that was the catalyst for the creation of the AMBER Alert program.

In recognition of this important day, the wireless industry and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) join the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in recognizing the success of the AMBER Alert program and reminding citizens of the vital role they can play to aid in the recovery of abducted children by registering to receive Wireless AMBER Alerts™.

3-D for TV is on the way. Panasonic stole the

thunder with the first presentation outside Japan of its proprietary system, meant for movie theaters as well

as TV...it is FANTASTIC. Also, for TVs...thin is in,

wireless TVs, Satellite TV on the road, touch screen,

and TVs integrated with the Internet...

EXHIBIT INFO HERE

STREAMED LIVE TO THE WORLD

user generated content is the name of the game

Sir Howard Stringer CEO of Sony Corp and Usher

folks 3-D is the future now

THE DIGITAL WAVE WAS HUGE AT CES

Digital imaging remains an important technology segment for consumers, as total revenues from

digital imaging products are forecasted to reach

$6.8 billion in 2009, up from $6.5 billion in 08.

SEE MORE OF CES 2009

mini projectors...so hot !!!!!

see them at PRDFF.com

PRDFF DIGITAL

BUZZ WORDS

3-D

PC...PHONE...TV

MULTI PLATFORMS

MOBIL

THE 3RD SCREEN

PROJECTORS

DIGITAL SIGNAGE

CONVERGENCE

SUPER THIN SCREENS

Las Vegas, Nevada, January 11, 2009 – More than 2,700 global companies, including 300 new exhibitors, unveiled an estimated 20,000 new technology products across 1.7 million net square feet of exhibit space this week at the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow, electrifying the technology industry and helping lead the way to economic recovery. New trends unveiled at the 2009 CES will shape the future of consumer electronics, including 3D HDTV, advances in OLED, green technologies, Internet TV and digital entertainment. Produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)^®, the 2009 International CES^® ran January 8-11, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“Despite a subdued economy, excitement exuded from the International CES show floor, with the sheer volume of innovative products, the quantity of senior level executives from the consumer technology and related industries, the international participation from companies and government officials and the partnerships and deals at the show,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CEA. “More consumer technology business deals start at the International CES than any other event on earth. The success of the 2009 International CES gives us optimism that innovation will restart the world’s economic engine.”

“The level of excitement on the CES show floor was at an all-time high with ground-breaking technologies such as the Palm Pre, Sony’s flexible OLED display, 3D HDTV, Yahoo!’s TV Widget, LG’s Watch Phone and a 1/3 inch thin energy efficient Plasma HDTV from Panasonic,” said Karen Chupka, senior vice president, events and conferences, CEA. “Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer announced Windows 7 Beta at his pre-CES keynote and the download response was so high, it overloaded their systems.”