Vendors going to CES? You’ve been warned

December 23, 2007 By

A group of people are going to have little devices that will turn off your TVs. Make sure you cover up your IR ports or you’ll be doing a lot of restarting of TVs.

You’ve been warned. I am not one of them, but I know several people who will be doing this as a prank.

Filed Under: CES 2007
  • Cody

    Haha, this reminds me of my freshman year in high school. Me and one of my friends both had Pocket PC’s, and had a software that had all the program codes for different TV models. Long story short, we could use the IR port on the Pocket PC’s to use them as a remote for pretty much any TV. It was always fun in class when watching a boring video to turn the TV off from the back of the class, or to randomly mute it and see how long it took our clueless teacher to figure out what happened. IR pranks are always fun xD

  • Cody

    Haha, this reminds me of my freshman year in high school. Me and one of my friends both had Pocket PC’s, and had a software that had all the program codes for different TV models. Long story short, we could use the IR port on the Pocket PC’s to use them as a remote for pretty much any TV. It was always fun in class when watching a boring video to turn the TV off from the back of the class, or to randomly mute it and see how long it took our clueless teacher to figure out what happened. IR pranks are always fun xD

  • Milan

    Then,It will be something like funny indeed !!!
    Ha ha ha ha ….

  • Milan

    Then,It will be something like funny indeed !!!
    Ha ha ha ha ….

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  • normob

    Tsk.
    What a killjoy! :-D

  • normob

    Tsk.
    What a killjoy! :-D

  • http://web-strategist.com/blog Jeremiah Owyang

    You warned of this last year too, did anyone actually report of this happening?

  • http://web-strategist.com/blog Jeremiah Owyang

    You warned of this last year too, did anyone actually report of this happening?

  • anon

    As a marketing guy you probably know that vendors pull fast ones on their customers all the time. Microsoft, for example, always lies about the performance and ability of its products, and exaggerates the ease of use of its products.

    Scoble, is there a reason you seem to favor vendors over individuals, even those making pranks?

  • anon

    As a marketing guy you probably know that vendors pull fast ones on their customers all the time. Microsoft, for example, always lies about the performance and ability of its products, and exaggerates the ease of use of its products.

    Scoble, is there a reason you seem to favor vendors over individuals, even those making pranks?

  • http://robertscobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    normob: don’t worry, only a small percentage of the industry reads my blog. Jeremiah: I didn’t hear any reports from last year of this happening. It sure would be fun to go around with a video camera and watch the mayhem.

  • http://robertscobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    normob: don’t worry, only a small percentage of the industry reads my blog. Jeremiah: I didn’t hear any reports from last year of this happening. It sure would be fun to go around with a video camera and watch the mayhem.

  • http://robertscobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    anon: huh? And who do you think will have to turn back on all those TV’s? Individuals, right? Why are you advocating messing with THEIR lives?

  • http://robertscobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    anon: huh? And who do you think will have to turn back on all those TV’s? Individuals, right? Why are you advocating messing with THEIR lives?

  • http://jeffd.vox.com/ Jeff D

    I would hope that adults would be more mature than this. My hope is obviously misplaced.

  • http://jeffd.vox.com Jeff D

    I would hope that adults would be more mature than this. My hope is obviously misplaced.

  • Michael

    Beavis and Butthead are going to CES. Great.

  • Michael

    Beavis and Butthead are going to CES. Great.

  • http://www.chicam.net/ cyclepromo

    If you don’t think vendors play pranks on each other you must not have been locked up in some stale air, bad lighting, three day convention vendor hell. Its not just the visitors.

  • http://www.chicam.net cyclepromo

    If you don’t think vendors play pranks on each other you must not have been locked up in some stale air, bad lighting, three day convention vendor hell. Its not just the visitors.

  • http://www.livedigitally.com/ Jeremy Toeman

    Funny how I can love MAKE yet still think this prank is asinine. It only takes a tiny smidgen of common sense to understand the MILLIONS of dollars consumer electronics vendors spend on CES.

    But hey, why not try to screw it up for them, cuz that’s like, you know, like, COOL.

  • http://www.livedigitally.com Jeremy Toeman

    Funny how I can love MAKE yet still think this prank is asinine. It only takes a tiny smidgen of common sense to understand the MILLIONS of dollars consumer electronics vendors spend on CES.

    But hey, why not try to screw it up for them, cuz that’s like, you know, like, COOL.

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