CES: Sony's Flip rival, a portable Blu-ray player and the green
tech hype  Sony's answer to the Flip  Flip Video was one of the
gadgets of 2008, so it's no surprise that the rest of the tech
industry is trying to muscle in to regain a bit of market. Flip
was a best seller at Christmas in both the UK and US, so what
can the big boys do to compete?  Sony's answer is the MHS-PM1,
so the consumer electronics giant clearly isn't getting any more
user-friendly with its gadget names and hasn't learnt from
Flip's one-syllable success.  The Webbie HD series of cameras
launches in April in the US and will undercut the Flip on price;
the PM1 has a 1.8" screen, has a 4x digital zoom and will sell
for around $170.  Sony's MHS-PM1 camcorder  Flip's Mino HD, for
comparison, has a 1.5" screen, selling at $229.95. Flip has a
built-in 4GB memory, but you'd have to fork out extra for a Sony
Memory Stick if you want a PM1 with any more than the 12MB
embedded memory.  Both of those are up against the Kodak Zi6,
which sells in the