Do you want to catch Saturday Night Live on Sunday, or Nightline in the morning? Would you like to watch the football game in a doctors waiting room or 2,000 miles from home?

Or, what if you are suddenly in the mood for an old episode of Dragnet or one of last years hit films?

Technology makes all this time-shifting possible now, usually with a few button clicks. There is just a question of who will prevail in delivering the products and services that will win over consumers and their changing couch-potato propensities with new standards of convenience and mobility.

That battle for consumer dollars and eyeballs will hit a feverish pitch at the International Consumer Electronics Show, which kicks off Wednesday.

The five-day annual event in Las Vegas, the mother of all tech trade shows, is bigger than ever before. It will consume 28 football fields of space as 2,500 exhibitors ranging from Internet powerhouses like Yahoo Inc. to little-known gizmo makers cast their bets on what they hope will be the next big trends in electronics.

Judging from the latest jockeying, video is one of them.

Yahoo and rival Google Inc. will make their CES debuts with keynote speeches…Read more courtesy of ap.org