Video loses its chains
C|Net | at | by Mike
By Jed Kolko, Principal Analyst At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, the vision of video throughout and beyond the home took a big step forward. Microsoft and the PC industry--not traditional electronics brands--stole the show. But consumer adoption of new video devices is still a long way off. CES 2004 offered nothing as radically category-busting as last year's watches and ovens. Yet what the show lacked in drama, it made up for in a coherent vision: Video that is free to move throughout and beyond the home. Three nascent categories show the promise of unshackled video.