Am I the only one going to CES?

By Keith Shaw on Fri, 12/05/08 - 5:15pm.

News reports are coming out that Las Vegas hotels have dropped their prices a second time as a way to lure attendees for the show in the wake of a dire economy. The show usually boasts 100,000+ attendees in early January, and you have to book your hotel months in advance, or risk ending up at the Tam-o-Shanter (which I believe got bulldozed anyway to make way for the Venetian expansion).

I have booked my CES trip – fellow Twisted Pair co-host Jason Meserve and I will be there doing Cool Tools videos and podcasts at the show – but I have more evidence attendance is probably going to be down. I've been invited to participate in two different events at the show as a "high-profile" blogger/journalists.

The first event is one of those "build a PC quickly" race, which I will probably decline, mainly because I haven't seen the inside of a PC for about 5-6 years now (I think that was the last time I bought a PC). Also, my fingers still ache from the last time I tried to install a new disk drive.

However, the second invite is for SanDisk's "Rock Band 2 Battle of the Bloggers". Now that's intriguing. I don't have details yet, but my prowess in Rock Band 2 must be one of the reasons for the invite (I just hope they don't ask me to sing).

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