{"id":1101,"date":"2006-06-06T00:20:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T08:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/06\/la-home-electronics-show\/"},"modified":"2006-06-06T00:20:39","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T08:20:39","slug":"la-home-electronics-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/la-home-electronics-show\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Home Electronics Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=600,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/hardnewsinc.blogs.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/la_home_electronics_show024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" border=\"0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hardnewsinc.blogs.com\/my_weblog\/images\/la_home_electronics_show024.jpg\" title=\"La_home_electronics_show024\" alt=\"La_home_electronics_show024\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/166;margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe LA Home Electronics show is kinda like a CES-lite.&nbsp; For all that, there were a lot of high-end gear manufacturers there, setting up their booths and blasting tunes to roomfuls of rapt audio nuts.&nbsp; I wandered around with a mini-disk recorder (there were a few amused raised eyebrows at such niche audio gear &#8211; guess it didn&#8217;t have praesodymium-hafnium magnets in it, so it was obviously plebian) and a camera to record the fun. <\/p>\n<p>The main impression I came away with is that Sony is absolutely bathed in flopsweat: they are seriously clenched-jaw freeked at the thought that their Blu-Ray franchise is shaping up to be Betamax.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve written about this before, and seen the stories that others have written about it.&nbsp; But it was impressive to see Sony take over a theater room to project movies (sorry, couldn&#8217;t take pictures of a dim projected image) while also having a separate room to show off its monitors. <\/p>\n<p>To top it all off, at the end of the day, Sony arranged for a couple of busloads of people to get ferried over to the Sony lot to take in a gala demonstration of how gee-whiz wonderful the whole Blu-Ray standard is &#8230; or will be, once it actually hits the store shelves. <a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=600,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/hardnewsinc.blogs.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/la_home_electronics_show029.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" border=\"0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hardnewsinc.blogs.com\/my_weblog\/images\/la_home_electronics_show029.jpg\" title=\"La_home_electronics_show029\" alt=\"La_home_electronics_show029\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 350px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 350\/233;margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the digerati wandering the hallways with their bags of XM radio swag muttered darkly about how the new Sony disks would probably also put tracking viruses onto your hard drive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Home Electronics show is kinda like a CES-lite.&nbsp; For all that, there were a lot of high-end gear manufacturers there, setting up their booths and blasting tunes to roomfuls of rapt audio nuts.&nbsp; I wandered around with a mini-disk recorder (there were a few amused raised eyebrows at such niche audio gear &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[374,872,352,370],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-film","tag-music","tag-online-multimedia","tag-webtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}