BillG CES 2006 Keynote blow by blow

In reverse chronological order:

BillG wrapup
Themes for 2006:
Xbox 360, Cheap HD, Media Center
Partners
User centric-all platforms easy and seemless

Xbox 360
4.5-5.5 million boxes by end of June
4 Games attach rate
3 Accessories attach rate
New manufacturing partner to meet demand
4 million Xbox Live marketplace downloads on Xbox 360
Same demographic and market size as CSI
Paramount premiers MI3 trailer on Xbox Live Marketplace
March 2006 - over 20 free games (including Street Fighter II - WOW!!)
Xbox 360 HD-DVD external drive to be launched later this year (MAN, I gotta pay extra for it?)
Xbox 360 driving HDTV sales
50 HD Games by Summer 2006
EA Fight Night III - Al Bernstein comes out to announce fighters
BillG plays as Muhammed Ali
SteveB plays as Joe Frasier
SteveB heavyweight division, BillG lightweight division
Game looks pretty cool. Camera angle nice. Accurate player styles
First Person View if you're getting your ass kicked
Cool replays...spit flying and everything. Whoa
BillG wins, Balmer throws controller
Xbox Live Marketplace users get free demo of EA Fight Night III RIGHT NOW!

Vista Media Center User Interface
Faded overlay on playing TV
Music
Album Cover View
Different Views
View by artist
View by year (WOOHOO!)
Works with XBox 360 as extender
Movie Library
Movie Poster View
DVD-Changer can be hooked up
Digitally Legal copies show up here

Digital HD Cable on Vista
Cable adapter box with Cable Card attaches to PC
Consumer buys "Cable-Ready PC"

HD-DVD player
Toshiba player availabe soon
HD-DVD on Vista
Interactivity on HD-DVD - scene chooser overlays on top of movie WHILE it's playing ("HD-DVD Interactivity Layer").
Shows you actors in the scene by order of their appearance in current scene WHILE movie is playing (OOOHH)
Can query information ("What else is this actor is in?") WHILE movie is playing (AAAAHH)
Overlay commentator video WHILE movie is playing
Digitally legal copies to be stored on the PC.

Windows Live Messenger
TV Buddy (YAY MSNTV TEAM!!)
Recommends shows your buddy likes
"What's on tonight?" - Activity API recommends shows based on your criteria
Plays trailers right in Activity API screen
MSNTV Remote Record built in...click and it records your TV shows!

Windows Live
TV services (YAY MSNTV TEAM!!)
Recommendations service based
RealTime MediaCenter activity

TV - Media Center
New online spotlight services on Media Center
Comedy Central Motherload
Cool UI that allows browsing while show is playing
Comedy central archives
Total Number of online spotlight apps: 110 worldwide
Webcast feed died
New media center form factors from PC maker partner
Toshiba Gigabeat portable video player
30GB HD
4 hours playback
Media Center UI (sync video [online and broadcast], music, photos)
Stars VONGO.com service
Similar to CinemaNow and MovieLink
Allows use on portable or PC
$9.95/mo. for 1000 movie selection (same as Stars current movie selection)
LG Portable Media Center
Widescreen

VOIP phones
Contact list on the phone
Seemless VOIP

Treo 700w
Available TOMORROW from Verizon!

Vista Tablet
Heavy investment in Vista tablet
Cheaper tablets on the way

URGE MTV and MS partnership
Integrated in WMP
No mention of business model (subs, ppv, ad based?)
Search similar to WMP library
Pro blogs
Sharing, tagging, community - user driven content
Justin Timberlake arrives on stage to plug his new album and URGE

Vista Demo
Similar to PDC 05 and Company Meeting 05 with some new stuff:
Demo of Photos (super fast thumbnails, tags, search, and automated slideshow with mixed photos/video)
Demo of Windows Media Player Vista (better UI, search)

Future of Computing Demo
Family screen (as seen at PDC 05 and Company Meeting 05)
Info to phone (as seen at PDC 05 and Company Meeting 05)
Info on table PC in airport lobby (as seen at PDC 05 and Company Meeting 05)

BillG started with a lot of preview (as usual) of the various technologies that he's going to talk about