Best TV Innovations at CES 2010
By Grant Clauser
After years of "my TV is bigger than your TV" battles on the CES floor, this year's show was a refreshing change.

New innovations emerge every year at CES, but this year seems especially flush with big news from the major television manufacturers.

And the big news isn't about size. Panasonic did show a whopping 152-inch 4K2K plasma, but it wasn't the company's biggest news.

After years of "my TV is bigger than your TV" battles on the CES floor, this year's show was a refreshing change.

So in an effort to ease digestion of all this complicated food for thought, we've rounded up some of the best new TV innovations from CES 2010.



3D
3D to the home finally appears to be on an unstoppable trajectory. With the finalization of the Blu-ray 3D spec and news of 3D content coming from DirecTV, ESPN, Discovery and others, 2010 is bound to be the year when people seriously consider putting on goofy glasses to watch TV at home.

Internet Apps
We’ll see a lot more streaming content options on TVs in 2010. Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Philips, LG and others all showed connected TVs and Blu-ray players with more streaming content partners and better interfaces. Samsung even launched an App Store in which consumers can select from a large list of apps - some free, some for a charge.

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