is Press Day: a parade of scribes and bloggers from one press conference to another. As Christine Persaud notes in her coverage, Press Day was packed, with almost all events being standing-room-only.
Rather than give a blow-by-blow account of each press conference, I'll sketch some of the big themes. Based on Press Day, these have the potential to be the top 10 stories of CES.
Thin is Even More In: Last year, several manufacturers showed ultra-thin flat panels, and that trend is accelerating for 2009. LG announced a 55-inch LCD that's 24.8 mm deep - under an inch.
Samsung's new Luxia series are the thinnest TVs on the market that incorporate a tuner and jack pack: they're just over one inch deep. Samsung will also offer an Ultra-Thin wall mount with a gap of only 0.6", so the TV hangs like a picture. Complementing the new TVs is the wall-mountable, one-inch-deep BDP-4600 Blu-ray player.