Held in January at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Winchester, Nevada , United States, the event typically hosts presentations of new products and technologies in the consumer electronics industry.
It was a spin-off of the Chicago Music Show which, until then, had served as the main event for exhibiting consumer electronics. The event had 17, attendees and over exhibitors; the kickoff speaker was Motorola chairman Bob Galvin. The winter show was held in Las Vegas in as planned. In , the show changed to a once-a-year format, with Las Vegas as the location.
The exhibitors attracted 17, attendees to the Hilton and Americana hotels over those four days. Also displayed were pocket radios and TVs with integrated circuits. Per the show guide, it included video with television receivers and video systems panels , audio including CB radio, radio, audio compacts, audio components, and tape equipment panels , and calculator and watch areas considered separate component conferences.
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In a one-time experiment, the Summer CES was open to the general public. Microsoft and chair Bill Gates officially unveiled the final design of its Xbox console and controller. Pentax announced the OptioS digital camera. The media saw this as a challenge against Apple's iPod line, which by that time did not have a portable video player. Creative Technology planned to be the first to introduce a player based on PMC.
