CES Mobile Electronics - Digital Drives 12-Volt Domain

By Jamie Latshaw

LAS VEGAS--After only DVD's first big year in the home theater environment, companies are expanding DVD's uses to make it more portable, mobile and capable of doing 60 mph without skipping. Enter in-car DVD, or at least talk and plans of it, as witnessed at the 1999 International Consumer Electronics Show last month.

Although in-car DVD made the loudest splash, other new in-car digital technologies, such as digital receivers and digital amps, debuted at CES as well.