Naturally, Sync is going to keep you up to date on all the cool products that debuted here at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, but we thought it would also be fun to take a quick look at CES 2008 by the numbers.

You gotta feel bad for Toshiba. Just days before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the most important tech convention to generate buzz and momentum, Warner Bros. announced it would abandon the HD DVD format for its rival, Blu-ray, joining other major Hollywood studios including Sony, Disney, Fox and MGM.

Sling Media – the makers of the popular Slingbox device that lets you stream your local television programming to your laptop or compatible phone — demonstrated publicly for the first time SlingPlayer Mobile software running on a BlackBerry smartphone.

If you’d agree bigger is better (ahem), then you’d be spending all your time at Panasonic’s booth here at CES in Vegas.

No, despite the fact I’m in the City of Sin, the fact that I’m ready to drop and it’s only 11am on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show has absolutely nothing to do with gambling or partying (seriously).

Tech hungry readers, listen up – over the next few days we’ll be providing live coverage of the 41st annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Yep, Sync and Sympatico MSN contributors are here among 150,000 members of the consumer electronics industry to catch a glimpse of tomorrow, today. We’re traipsing through more than 1.85 million square feet of showroom floor space to bring you the best of the best. Ready?

A surprise announcement from Warner Bros. and NewLine Cinema has the HD-DVD camp reeling as the market ponders a possible end to the long-standing format war.