Sony’s new streaming music, that automatically sends streaming music to the PS3, Bravia TV and your Sony Bluray player and of course your lowly PC will be moving onto the PSP as well.

Although it has launched only in the UK so far for a resonable 4 pounds per month, it’s coming to North America very soon.  And the great news is that it’ll also be working on the PSP soon.  I was able to see a beta build of it on the PSP and sure enough it has the same interface that is well known for on the PS3.  Great news I think.

I got a demo of how it works on the PS3, and it looks like just the right thing for me.  I can influence my music by channel, mood, time of day (it learns what I like a various times of day), and even have songs flagged in a  favorites channel.  And of course I can mark specific songs as ones I like or dislike to influence later selections.  Finally I can search for a specific song or artists.  Can’t get that on Pandora, now can you.

They say that they have a catalog of 6 million songs.  But there are still songs that I couldn’t find.  My and my obscure tastes anyway, right?

– Dale Wick

It has to be seen to be believed.  In the Sharp booth they were showing lots of nice 4 color LCD TVs.  But then they had some extra 60″ panels and said “Why not?” and wall papered the floor, ceiling and walls of this very immersive TV room. 

Hmm…I might have to take out my home office to fit this one in. 

Now this is what I need in the corner of my living room.  A nice 3D surround racing game station.  That’ll work right?  Ah well, at least it’s good to dream.

Well it wouldn’t be CES without a few parties.  And the place to be last night was the HTC party at Pure Night Club at Caeser’s Palace.  There was food, a band and of course lots of drinks

Coming out on Feb 22 of this year, da Blob 2 looks like a great advancement over the original, and very fun game da Blob.  I watch it a little demoed on a 3D TV.  Maybe 3D TVs are going to be useful after all.

So I was in the PlayStation 3 area of the Sony booth, and came across a prototype for a new PlayStation 3 game called Heros.  It looks like a really cool concept.  It is based in a Dexter & Dax/Ratch & Clank universe and all 4 are playable characters.  They each have a special move, and of course the size can affect areas that they can visit.  Should be awesome

 The mini game that they were showing off at the show uses the Playstation Move controller, and is a cross between pinball and bowling.  You can tilt the controller to influence your bad bowling.  Lots of fun.

I didn’t explore around the environment much but it looked like the rich environment that we’ve come to expect from those popular heros.

I will be uploading a 60 second video of some gameplay when I get a chance.

I know that people complain that there’s nothing good on PSN for the PSP, but I played Patchwork Heros a bit in the Sony booth, and I really loved it.  Lots of fun with a bit of wit.  Good all around.  Something to look forward to.

Well, if I had a car with machine guns in it, I might also be likely to get it full of bullet holes too, when it comes down to it.

In the Sony future of 3D area they had lots of interesting things like this 3D bluray player that didn’t require glasses.  Inside a curtained off area, they also had a 32″ TV that showed a picture that was “2k x 1k” without glasses that was quite spectacular.  But even better was the 56″ TV in the Beyond Bluray area which showed a glasses free 3D TV with a “4k x 2k” pixel display.  I was very impressed by both.  I can’t wait to try gaming with those screens.  I don’t think my eyes would get tired looking at those at all.

The interesting thing is that all of these things are pulled directly out of the research lab, so the staff in the booth can’t answer any questions about them.

Q: Where do you get a video source that is 4k x 2k?

A: Well Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a Sony property, so probably they rerendered it.  I know that they put a lot of computer hardware in under behind this TV when they installed the booth.

and so on.  No product announcements so far.

Well, I was looking around in the Sony booth, and there is was!  A gigantic LCD TV.  It’s like 2 stores tall.