this story sounds vaguely familiar to a conspiracy theory that had been circulating at namm for the past couple of years….
http://gizmodo.com/343348/confessions-the-meanest-thing-gizmodo-did-at-cesÂ
 not sure what kind of person would do such a reckless and contemptible thing….
AS
It’s no conspiracy, I know one of the guys who likes to do it. It’s usually quite funny to watch.
Korg had it coming
Ya know what the real crime is? Every year, a few people walk around NAMM and shut off the plasma TVs with TV-B-Gones. And the exhibitors never learn their lesson. Next week, the same exhibitors will deploy the same plasma TVs as last year, and they will fail to put a piece of opaque tape over the remote receiver–usually because they’re lazy, and want to control the displays with a remote anyway. They keep regretting it, and yet they keep re-setting up for embarrassment year after year….
However, there really aren’t that many plasma sets being used as booth displays at NAMM. Not like the CES, where the actual set mfrs. are ALWAYS showing massive banks of them.
I think this Gizmodo post was the best free advertising the TV-B-Gone people have ever gotten.
BANNED FOR LIFE. It has a nice ring to it!
CES bans Gizmodo
(scroll down to see Gizmodo’s Brian Lam defending their stunt) also read the stupid comments below that.
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