{"id":171,"date":"2010-01-10T21:52:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T04:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiduciarydutiesblog.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-01-10T21:52:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T04:52:11","slug":"2010-consumer-electronic-show-ces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"2010 Consumer Electronic Show (CES)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CES-logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-173\" title=\"CES logo\" src=\"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CES-logo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>I attended the annual Consumer Electronics Show for the 6th time in the past seven years.\u00a0 Here are my observations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attendance was steady.\u00a0 Gambling is up<\/strong>.\u00a0 There were more people at the tables than last year. That&#8217;s two good signs for the economy.<\/p>\n<p>But, <strong>the Fortune 500 stayed away<\/strong>, which is a bad sign for the economy.\u00a0 Here are some of the prior year&#8217;s attendees who were <strong>noticeably absent<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benq (made a big splash a few years back, now vanished)<\/li>\n<li>Hewlett Packard (are you kidding me?\u00a0 No presence whatsoever on the floor?\u00a0 No one could drive from Palo Alto to Las Vegas with a few printers?)<\/li>\n<li>Xerox<\/li>\n<li>Dell (This ticks me off.\u00a0 Dell has no presence on the floor, but snags 11 &#8220;innovation&#8221; awards?\u00a0 Ditto for Nikon.\u00a0 Not at CES, but also wins an award?\u00a0 Smells like some kind of &#8220;pay for play,&#8221; and certainly cheapens the CEA Innovation Awards).<\/li>\n<li>Philips (used to have a huge display on the floor. Here&#8217;s all I could find in 2010).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_172\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/philips1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-172\" title=\"philips\" src=\"http:\/\/fiduciarydutiesblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/philips-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How the mighty have fallen.  Sad days for Philips <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, the good guys (i.e., <strong>Corporate America that showed up at CES<\/strong> and plugged away at restoring the economy):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft<\/li>\n<li>Sharp<\/li>\n<li>Samsung<\/li>\n<li>Panasonic<\/li>\n<li>Sony<\/li>\n<li>Casio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The foregoing were all at 2010 CES and marketing at full speed.\u00a0 Bravo.<\/p>\n<p>There were no visible empty spaces on the convention floor, unlike 2009.\u00a0 However, some spaces had increased in size.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Embarrassment Award<\/strong>:\u00a0 Lost-in-space Polaroid names Lady Gaga as its &#8220;artistic director.&#8221;\u00a0 Come on.\u00a0 You guys couldn&#8217;t find one person with a credible background in photography?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Very Cool Product<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Toshiba Cell LCD television has a lovely picture.\u00a0 Available now in Japan, coming to the U.S. in the second half of 2010. \u00a0 Learned that the extra-thin LCDs achieve their weight loss by putting all the lights at the bottom, then shooting up to fill the screen.\u00a0 You certainly make some sacrifices for the Twiggy look.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3-D Television<\/strong>.\u00a0 All the rage in 2010.\u00a0 What is this?\u00a0 1953 revisited?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reel-to-Reel Tape Decks<\/strong>.\u00a0 Ditto.\u00a0 Saw several at the high end stereo show.\u00a0 Give me a break.\u00a0 Just because some audio geeks (oops &#8211; I meant, &#8220;audiophiles&#8221;) still listen to vinyl is no excuse to attempt to reintroduce reel-to-reel decks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital Music<\/strong>.\u00a0 The stereo world is catching on that we listen to electronic files, but they are about three years behind, as the manufacturers finally embrace\u00a0 Ipod connectivity.\u00a0 (Even Sony has an Ipod slot on some products.\u00a0 Tall about being ubiquitous.)<\/p>\n<p>Dudes, look forward.\u00a0 I want wireless connectivity from my amp to my PC.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the future, not an Ipod interface.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cool computer stuff<\/strong>.\u00a0 Big (i.e., two terrabyte) solid state storage units.\u00a0 USB 3.0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Class D amplifier<\/strong>.\u00a0 The little amps from International Rectifier smoked some systems costing thousands of dollars more.\u00a0 Quite impressive, even if I&#8217;m not a convert to Class D.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gorgeous Home Projector<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you have the dough, get the $15,000 projector from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meridian-audio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meridian<\/a>.\u00a0 It will knock your socks off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Way Award<\/strong>.\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotusgroupusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">start-up speaker company<\/a> from Novato, CA rolls out its first speakers &#8211; at $125K for a pair?\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engstromengstrom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dude from Sweden<\/a> showing a $90K pair of monoblock amplifiers as his only product?\u00a0 (At least Lars named the amp after himself.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the annual Consumer Electronics Show for the 6th time in the past seven years.\u00a0 Here are my observations. Attendance was steady.\u00a0 Gambling is up.\u00a0 There were more people at the tables than last year. That&#8217;s two good signs for the economy. But, the Fortune 500 stayed away, which is a bad sign for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fresnolawyerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}