We’re going to be providing coverage of Computex 2008 this year a little differently to most sites – the majority of it will be done via video. John’s over there by himself and apparently he’s being dubbed the one man video show. Armed with his tripod and trusty Sony HD digital video camera, he’s flipping the legs out of that tripod whenever he sees something of interest. Here’s his first introductory video from the new Computex display hall at Nangang.

Over the past couple of weeks we have been filming what will be a 7-8 part weekly series about how to build a Blu-ray media centre PC (and you may already know this if you watch our weekly vlog). Aopen has a very small pre-built player on their booth, and John had a chat with one of their staff about it in this video.

Foxconn on the other hand has caught the “Green bug” and I’m sure they’re not the only ones at the show to spin this marketing tale. It’s more than just a marketing story though, Foxconn have designed a system – case, motherboard and power supply – that has the lowest overall power draw when idle I have ever heard of.

John’s video from the Intel booth is the longest one he has shot so far at Computex. In t he speaks with three different Intel reps. First off, there is the largest resolution screen in the world showing stunning images from Mars, generated by a US$10 000 NVIDIA graphics card. Secondly he takes a look at a car PC and tablet PC prototypes using the Intel Atom processor. And finally, he takes a look at a 16 core CPU imaging a human brain scan.

Jetway have another Blu-ray multimedia centre PC to show off. Their solution includes an Industrial PC board. The rep makes the classic comment that multimedia PCs in the lounge room will be big in the future. I’ve been hearing that at Computex speeches for about seven years now – but I do think their time if finally arriving for the mainstream.

Last off for day one of Computex 08 was VIA. I have a feeling this video may have been filmed on Computex day 0 as they seem to be still setting up their booth. John is shown a whole spread of VIA based UMPCs, plus a whole wall of mini-notes of various sizes and colors. Another wall shows off VIA’s well-known Mini-ITX solution and then are demonstrating a home automation system built around one of their boards. Last but not least is the VIA Trinity platform – the new VIA Nano processor with an S3 graphics solution. Take a look here for a picorial article of VIA's booth.