WingColors

I'm 100% with ya on this one, I think that it wasn't even a funny prank. The presentations given at CES are the culmination of months of work by regular employees at these companies, and their jobs, salaries, bonuses, and the company's share price rides on the success of those presentations. Just because you can screw with the TVs doesn't mean you should, especially when it's embarrassing and hurtful to the companies involved.

Yeah, I mean it's so 1999. I remember kids at school having those watches that can interact with TV's.

I think it was really immature and you're right Mike, those presentations are important for the company to demonstrate their key products to the right demographic.

I guess it's going to be just that little bit longer before bloggers are considered serious press.

I've got to say that some of the things that have been coming out of the CES organisers' mouths is just junk though. I've seen snippets from them and various pundits saying that only proper journalists should be allowed into these things.

I'm sorry but I think that's stupid on two grounds:

1. blogs are the new media - their brand of journalism represents (through their readers) a larger and larger proportion of the people that are going to buy that shit.
2. a couple of guys running about with a TV-B-Gone does not represent a realistic section of the bloggers at CES. That's akin to saying they're going to ban all guys because men were responsible for it.

Yeah stupid joke. It may have messed up some people's days. CES should put pressure on Gizmodo -- even make an example of them -- but don't act like asses because it'll only hurt your own bottom line.

Probably one of the lamest "pranks" ever pulled. Hands down.

It is not as if bloggers are having enough trouble being taken seriously already. Now Gizmodo, probably the second most popular electronics blog, pulls a stunt like this only to create a setback for all bloggers. I fear the mainstream media will just use Gizmodo's actions to say such childish actions are representative of all bloggers, making it that much more difficult for the rest of the blogging world to be taken seriously.

Shame on Gizmodo, Nick Denton and Gawker Media for screwing it up for the rest of "us."

He has no remorse.