Internet-ready TV

For more than a decade, the focal point of the annual International Consumer Electronics Show has been a digital generation of television sets capable of displaying far more detailed pictures than its analog forebears. The trends toward thinner, higher performance sets continued at this year's convention, which concluded Sunday in Las Vegas: There were flat panels one-third of an inch thick and screens thin enough to bend, technologies that displayed fast-moving images more clearly and provided brighter pictures at lower wattages, and even prototypes that delivered video in 3-D.

January 13, 2009