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CES GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS This year’s CES show in Las Vegas ISTOCK.COM/WOODKERN
showed signs of leaving behind its B2C roots and becoming a B2B show – such was the assessment of the UK’s Digital Production Partnership (DPP). The DPP has taken an interest in the development of CES as a bellwether for TV industry trends, and has produced analyses of the show for the past three years, including a look back at the show’s development since 2010. The report observed that voice assistance and speech recognition was the breakthrough tech this year and that
VOICE CONTROL WILL REVOLUTIONISE HOWWE FIND CONTENT THE REPORT’S KEY FINDINGS: ■ Voice assistance and speech recognition dominated CES 2018. Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa are being integrated with TV’s and will radically alter the media industry. ■ CES 2018 was the show where B2B outweighed B2C, as many companies left the relationship with the consumer to the tech giants, and focused on specific business opportunities. ■ One eect of the focus on business-to-business products was that new consumer products from the major manufacturers were thin on the ground at CES 2018. ■ China is up and coming. The most likely competitors for Google, Amazon and Apple are going to be their Chinese equivalents, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. ■ Home robots are starting to become a reality – but as tools for the workshop, not the living room.
voice search for content, would be game- changing. “Voice control, implemented in voice assistants and TVs, will revolutionise how we find content,” said DPP managing director Mark Harrison. “The winners and losers are as yet unknown, but with younger consumers already comfortable with both voice interface and with online video, I know where I’m putting my money.”
The line between consumer and business showed signs of blurring at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, the world’s largest trade show, convention and exhibition
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