It's been a manic 24 hours here at CES, with press conferences virtually every hour and the entire whathifi.com team running from A to B like mad things to bring you up-to-the-minute news.
It started with LG at 8am yesterday (fortunately jet lag meant I was wide awake at 6am), followed swiftly by Toshiba and Sharp in the morning and Panasonic and Sony in the afternoon.
Now maybe it was the lack of sleep (or caffeine), but I couldn't summon up quite the same level of enthusiasm as my American colleagues during these events. You see, American journalists are in the habit of clapping. Every two minutes. Regardless of what anyone says.
Now call me a curmudgeonly old Brit, but we're here to report the news and bring it to you, not to engage in some orgy of backslapping every time Mr Corporate CEO opens his mouth.
Don't get me wrong. CES is a fabulous event, and an amazing showcase for all the new products heading our way in the coming year. And Vegas is a crazy, crazy town.
I should have known better than to ask. No sooner had the question formed in my mind, than a (very enthusiastic) American executive invited us to meet "our two living in HD families".
No, I've still no idea what it was all about. But then one of the little ones promptly burst into tears and drowned out whatever our host speaker was saying, and had to be rushed out of the room by her embarrassed parents.
Ah, there is a God!
