When TVs Crash: Convergence Gone Bad
from the welcome-to-CES dept
PC World's Editor in Chief arrived in Las Vegas for CES and tried to check his email. When he found out he had to first get authorization via his TV (convergence!) he went through the process only to get an Internet Explorer error message on his TV. So, while we've been hearing plenty of stories about convergence leading up to CES, it pays to remember that it doesn't always work that well.
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Late one night, while channel flipping, I came to the "Web" Station, and it had crashed, with a German dialog box (Windows). The *really* bad part was that the background on the screen was a mosaic of "kiddie porn" pictures, and every TV in the hotel had this until the next morning when someone finally noticed it.
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