Girls Of CES, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

The 2006 International CES took place on January 5, to January 8 2006, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the Sands Convention Center, the Alexis Park Hotel and the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. HDTV was a central theme in the Bill Gates keynote as well as many of the other manufacturer's speeches. The standards competition between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc was conspicuous, with some of the first HD movie releases and first HD players being announced at the show. Philips showed a rollable display prototype whose screen can retain an image for several months without electricity.
Attendance was over 150,000 individuals in 1.67 million net square feet of space, making it the largest electronics event in the United States.