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CES Innovation Awards Innovating Bullshit?

A few days ago, we wrote about hardware that "demagnetizes vinyl and cds" to make them sound better. Utter bullshit, but the surprise was that CES had given it an award. What does a CES Award mean? More »

3:02 PM on Mon Nov 13 2006
By Brian Lam
519 views, 16 comments

gadgets

CES Organizer CEA May Make An E3 Replacement

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) issued a press release saying they're forming an advisory committee to see if they're ready to explore gaming event options, a.k.a., make an E3 replacement. They're fairly experienced in tradeshows, seeing as they're responsible for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which gives gadget freaks like us a behemoth woody. More »

8:30 PM on Fri Aug 11 2006
By Jason Chen
91 views, 1 comment

home entertainment

CEA Fights Back With Forceful Ad

The Consumer Electronics Association fired back at the content industry, publishing a print ad in a Washington newspaper that rips into the RIAA and MPAA for fear mongering and spreading disinformation. The CEA is trying to persuade congresspeople to oppose legislation that restricts satellite radio. The group convincingly makes its case by tapping the history books, finding quotes from the past that also engaged in stirring up a little fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD), and turned out to be absolutely wrong:
"I forsee a marked deterioration in American music...and a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines..." -John Philip Sousa on the Player Piano (1906)
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12:57 PM on Wed Jun 21 2006
By Charlie White
100 views, 2 comments

Latest by Jeff The Riffer: The RIAA, MPAA and other media organizations are well aware that they will survive new technologies. But they don't ever want to see their profit margines dip. They want a constant, no-change system. Adapting to new technologies and systems requires various more »