The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be held from January 5 to 8, 2022, returning to Las Vegas after a year, when the exhibition will be conducted in a combination of online and offline, it is worth noting that the latest news shows that according to the current announcement, the duration of the exhibition will be shortened to January 7.
CES is hosted by the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association (CEA) to promote the close integration of cutting-edge electronics technology and modern life. The exhibition began in 1967 and has a history of 55 years, and has become a window for major electronics companies around the world to release product information and display high-tech levels and advocate future lifestyles.
The inaugural CES Consumer Show was held in New York City in June 1967 and featured 14 exhibitors, including major LG, Motorola and Philips, with an area of 100,000 square feet (about 9 290 square meters), more than the size of an American football field (7,300 square meters). At the time, CES was a branch of the Chicago Music Show, but over time, CES is now the world's largest consumer electronics show.
According to the investigation, the first CES exhibition attracted 17,500 participants.
This photo taken at CES in 1967 shows the turntable maker Scott exhibiting, but the products shown in the picture are not rich, and even a little rudimentary, which may also explain why there are belly performances interspersed with them. Unlike cess today, where the product is the absolute protagonist, in an era when technology was not yet developed, stunt performances became an important aspect of CES to attract audiences.
This year's show Girl has also become a beautiful landscape. The most representative feature of the first section of the exhibition is the spread of solid-state electronics consumer equipment and the influx of a large number of Japanese electronic equipment manufacturers.
Since CES, cassette tapes have conquered the world: before the advent of digital music, people's music world was full of vinyl records and cassette tapes, and it was a time when music was pure and quiet.
In 1962, Philips of the Netherlands produced the world's first cassette tape. However, this photo was taken in 1968, the second year of the CES exhibition, and it was also in this year that cassette tapes were first unveiled in front of the world, causing people to rush to buy them, releasing people from the huge size of the record player, and allowing tape "light" music to begin to conquer the world. Have you listened to music on tape while reading the article? (This is a question of exposing age)
Classic opening in 1969: The CES showroom in 1969, it may be hard to imagine that many things in this exhibition are still in use until today in the 21st century. As can be seen from the picture, unlike the more rudimentary exhibition forms in the previous two years, many manufacturers in this exhibition began to put their own products into exquisite wooden or metal booths, and promoted products to passing audiences and media, hoping to become the favored objects of the media and audiences and open their popularity.
At this CES show, Panasonic's 1.5-inch screen TV set stunned the audience. The data showed that the tv weighed about 907 grams, and the New York Times reported at the time that the TV weighed the same weight as the head-mounted radio worn on The Martian Visitor.
In 1971, organizers moved the CES show to Chicago until 1977, during which time each show was held in Chicago. At CES 1970, the Sony U-Matic VCR recorder made its debut. The following year, the camera officially entered the consumer electronics market.
At the 1971 show, the most exciting products were audio equipment, including 8-track tapes, blank recordable tapes, and headphones won the title of best hot product with the advantage of size and price. In fact, by today's standards, a headset that costs $50 a hour is at least $150 today, which is actually not cheap. This year's CES consumption accounted for 275 exhibitors from around the world.
By 1972, the number of attendees at CES was close to 40,000, double the number of attendees at the first show in June 1967. Only 300 companies have brought new products to the stage. If portable audio equipment is the protagonist of the 1971 exhibition. The protagonist of the 1972 show, then, was undoubtedly the automotive multimedia system, and of course, the improved style of the tape product that debuted in 1971 was equally popular. Since 1973, the organizer, the American Association of Consumer Electronics Manufacturers, has changed the exhibition to twice a year.
In 1974, the laser disc player officially embarked on a journey to the United States, although it was not until 1978 that laser disc products gradually entered the commercial field. For the first time, CES consumer shows cooperation with the International Association of Phonographic Producers and is included in the history of trade cooperation in the recording industry.
The 1975 CES show still revolved around music, but the fledgling Atari Pong family game console at the show wowed the audience.
By 1977, CES had crossed the 10-year threshold, with the total number of attendees jumping to more than 50,000 and more than 700 exhibitors joining the winter show. At that time, Texas Instruments' cheap digital watches, which cost $20, began to flood the consumer electronics market, just one year after their listing in 1976.
The 1978 Chicago Summer Fair was still the domain of music equipment, and in the years that followed, visitors began to grow exponentially.
In 1979, as CES had firmly established itself as a trade show platform, it began to attract major computer manufacturers and peripherals suppliers. This year, the computer appeared at the CES exhibition for the first time, and since then it has also opened a new era for CES.
At the winter CES of 1979, Atari unveiled two 8-bit PCs: the Atari 400 and the Atari 800.
1980 was the first year CES added a "promotional advertising" window. The purpose of investing in "promotional advertising" is to help the industry find new ways to promote home electronics through radio and television.
At CES in 1981, laser discs and personal camcorders debuted. The 1982 show was highlighted by the landmark Commodore 64 home computer and Western Technologies' Vectorx.
This year, fashion also began to enter CES. We know that since its inception, CES has always been based on commercial trade as the basic background. Therefore, from the photos of the past years, we can feel the strong commercial atmosphere at the exhibition, which is difficult to change. This photo was taken in 1981, although it still does not change the commercial style, but with the commercial casual wear began to become popular, the beginning of scientific and technological life, people's dress has gradually become simple and fashionable, the entire venue, in addition to commercialization, we can still feel a brisk public leisure style.
If you've seen many photos of CES from 1970 to 1980, a brand name you must be very familiar with is Fisher. Fisher started out as an American company, but was acquired by Japan's Sanyo Electronics in 1975. At CES, Fisher has always been active in people's sights as a major force in the exhibition. It was 1986 and the company was promoting the televisions it produced.
In the winter and summer of 1984, cess visitors were close to 100,000 people, reaching a new high at that time. InfoWorld reporter Scott Metz called educational entertainment software and games "mediocre," and he may be the first CES journalist to report a lack of innovation in the industry. However, the Amigo home computer came out that year. This year's CES is best known for the release of the Nintendo Enterprise System, a home console, but the machine has since been renamed the Nintendo Advanced Video System.
At the winter CES of 1988, Tetris made its first appearance. Subsequently, Nintendo installed the game on every Came Boy console in 1989.
In 1989, the era of wireless telephones came, before the emergence of mobile phones, wireless telephones swept the world as soon as they appeared, and soon occupied a major communication position in most homes. In this photo, an attendee is working on Freedom Phone from Southwest Bell, which is now part of AT&T.
The 1990 Las Vegas winter CES overshadowed Chicago's summer CES. More than 1,600 journalists participated in the exhibition. This marks a trend that continues to this day at CES, namely the increasing number of journalists at CES.
Between the 1980s and 1990s, CES sometimes held exhibitions in the summer and winter of the year. The photo was taken at a CES summer show in 1990, but as the number of exhibitors gradually decreased, the number of summer shows was counted. Organizers have tried to stimulate the growth of the number of attendees by relocating the venue to the United States, but with little success. In 1998, the CES Summer Exhibition was officially cancelled, and since then the exhibition time has been fixed in January every year, the venue is Las Vegas, and it has not changed to this day.
Apple made its first appearance at CES in 1992, when apple's elder John Scully, released a product called Newton, a handheld computer, a popular PDA at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century.
At CES in 1993, Sony introduced the Mini Disk, a small diameter disc that can play 74 minutes to become a representative of mobile high sound quality, until 2011 was completely discontinued, did you play MD back then?
The emergence of miniaturized integrated circuits has promoted the vigorous development of the entire electronics industry. This is a photo taken at cess in 1993, where a personal digital assistant became the biggest protagonist. From people's clothing configuration, we can see that the era of a briefcase per person is gone, and various handheld light electronic devices have become the basic model for going out.
There were four CES shows in 1994, one in Las Vegas, two in Chicago and one in Mexico City. 1995 was last exhibited in the Windy City of Chicago. That year, there was also an exhibition in Philadelphia.
In 1996, a generational classic, the flip phone Motorola StarTac also appeared in the field of vision for the first time at CES. For the participants of the year, today's smartphones are far away and unpredictable. But history is always unexpected but hidden in every detail of the times. As soon as the Motorola StarTac entered the market, it set off an unstoppable wave of wind, which brought new ideas to people's lifestyles, and the simple design has long paved the way for human beings to reach the future of mobile life. The shock of the StarTac is indelible even 20 years later.
In 1997, the CES las Vegas exhibition face office exceeded 100 square feet (92,592 square meters) for the first time, and the exhibition area has been hovering around this area ever since. At the time, atlanta and Dallas also hosted small shows. Since 1999, CES has been the annual Las Vegas event.
There is an e-book platform called Reader. At CES in 2000, Microsoft announced a partnership with Barnes & Noble to support Reader. It sounds a bit unbelievable, but Microsoft did come up with e-books before Amazon and the like. Nowadays, the news that Kindle e-books are about to withdraw from the domestic market has not gone away, and the glory of the "bubble noodle artifact" is gone.
At CES 2001, Bill Gates took to the stage to demonstrate for the first time the experience of playing the WWF wrestling game Rock on Xbox.
In 2004, Samsung showed off its WiFi-enabled phones.
At CES 2006, portable DVD devices were introduced, allowing viewers to control what they wanted to see.
At CES 2009, games gained a better experience with the innovation and support of hardware, software and networks.
After 2010, CES began to enter the Chinese era. More and more Chinese companies have begun to participate in the Conference in the United States, and more and more new technologies and new products have been released by Chinese technology companies.
Today's CES has become the most important display window in the field of science and technology, all technology companies need a stage, then the long-standing CES has undoubtedly become the best carrier, has become today's super-large-scale, super popular event, last year (2021), due to the new crown epidemic, CES canceled offline activities and presented it online. This year, the exhibition was re-held, marking the return of offline activities. I don't know what fun and shocking black technology will be at this CES? Let's wait and see!
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