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CES 2014: There's a 'Pre-Show' Before the Consumer Electronics Show (Video)
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is the largest electronics show in the U.S. these days. It's so big that small companies easily get lost among the industry giants and their huge, noisy show floor displays. But there is a press-only 'pre-show' called CES Unveiled that gives visibility to companies that don't have 20' tall displays full of celebrity shills and other razzmatazz. So, in hopes of finding some products more interesting than the inevitable CES "Oh, look! Our latest TVs are 2" wider than last year's models!" blather over incremental improvements to existing products, Tim Lord went to CES Unveiled -- and found a few products that were not repeats from previous years. Good products? Useful? Maybe, maybe not. You decide.
Welcome to the Consumer Exploitation Show, where vaporware and bad ideas in production compete for your attention with booth babes and lots and lot of TVs.
Why don't they publish a categorized, searchable electronic catalog so those of us who don't want to fight the masses can still see everything that's available?
Razzmatazz -- now that's a word not used often enough anymore. I shall add it to my common vocabulary forthwith.
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Just to be seen? An excuse to go to Vegas on the company dime?
It seems anachronistic in this day and age of electronic tubes and such like
Sharknado with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads? No, but the swag bag is full.
Why does the audio keep rocketing up to 11?
Holy audio warning Batman!
I turned the volume up at first to hear person, then some guy asked a question and broke my ears.
The 4 hours light bulb is somewhat cool.
You guys fixed the mono l/r sound which I applaud you on but there are some more changes you should really do if you want people to watch any videos you make.
This time I'm going to pick on volume leveling. I know your camera mic does automatic compression and leveling, but did you take the 5 minutes to listen to the sound quality? LOUD LOUD LOUD andthenallofasuddenverysoft WAIT IT'S LOUD AGAIN.
This shouldn't be difficult at all to fix unless you're using something like Windows Movie Maker (Which I hope to god you aren't).
There's no way upscaling to looks any better than HD, this isn't CSI.
As is clear from the subject, this is not a comment on the topic but the /. execution. Please, folks, you really should have the basic facilities and sense to properly normalize the volume on a video like this. I, and I assume others, watch in a carefully volume limited situation, and I had to turn this off early as I couldn't reach out quickly enough to adjust for parts I couldn't hear versus those that were very loud. Yeah, I could I suppose normalize on the client end with a bit of work, but... ...won't someone think of the users
He is a respected actor of television and film!
The cow says "Moo." The dog says "Woof." The Timothy says "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
... the /. reporter can go find a stand that has a halfway decent camera with a microphone that actually works first and then use that to shoot the video.
That would explain why CES is going downhill.
If CES is so pointless why do people go?
Because everyone else does.
I totally agree with you that it seems anachronistic. One particularly sad aspect is that I am here but as far as I can make out, there's no way for me to see any of the things mentioned in the video as those people don't have real booths here.
It is impressive from an extravaganza standpoint to have all of these massive company booths...
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I would love to see more of this! Did Tim make more videos?
I'm on m.slashdot.org with my iPad, and there's no video. Not even a placeholder for a video (if they were using Flash or Silverlight.) So I also checked the CES Unveiled link in the summary, but it just goes to the schedule, no details. Not impressed guys...
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