If there was a year that really seems dated from the perspective of late 2019, it is 2009. Many trends that were hot then are essentially gone. There was a major shift in several tech areas that were just getting a toehold in the future at that 2009 CES show. Just for fun, let\u2019s see what was hot then and is it missed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The top consumer electronics company on the planet was GE \u2026\nyep, that\u2019s changed for today. Apple which was eleventh then, is #1 now.\nSamsung is still second, but LG has actually given up 3rd<\/sup> to Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Circuit City was still around and looking for a buyer while\nit closed even more stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In top TV\u2019s, plasmas still ruled with an iron hand. The Pioneer\nElite Kuro Pro-111FD made even the best LCD sets look primitive. However, at\n$5000, it only appealed to the videophile that had deep pockets. Remarkably, it\nwas less money than many of the top-of-the-line LCD sets. I saw it in person\nand to this day I\u2019d absolutely love to have one \u2026 it was that good … so good\nin fact, that I have a hard time seeing how it can be surpassed. And coming from a hardcore OLED fan, that\u2019s\nquite a compliment. Sadly, it cost too much to build and the mass market wanted\never thinner & cheaper sets, so only a few were produced. I had an earlier professional\nversion (before the Kuro name) in 2003 ($8000+) and to this day I miss it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The developer of the VHS video tape system, JVC, stopped\nproduction of their machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n McIntosh was confused and assumed that we needed an $18,000 video\nprojector from a company that didn\u2019t actually make it, and that excited fans\nwould snap it up solely based on the famous name \u2026 ah, nope, didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were still TONS of iPod accessories \u2026 even after over\n8 years of production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There was lot of talk about streaming, but there wasn\u2019t anyone\nthat had a good grasp of just how big it would become or how to implement it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This definitely was the year of transition for over-the-air\nTV folks \u2026 conventional analog TV was going the way of the dinosaur in just a few\nmonths and there were endless adapters for the handful of people that actually used\n\u201crabbit ears\u201d for their TV\u2019s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Digital picture frames really were being hotly hyped (and\nimproved), but this, like the iPod trend, was \u201cone foot out the door\u201d \u2026 but the\nmanufacturers had no idea. Consequently, when you hear this is the \u201cyear of the\n\u2026 etc.\u201d, take it with a grain of salt as only a few years later in perspective\nwill give you a clear picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The porn industry had its awards and trade show at the same time as CES again and your CES badge will get you a $25 discount \u2026 dropping to $107. After seeing a few of the \u201cstars\u201d walking around actually in CES, clearly this wasn\u2019t so much of a good deal. That $107 would have gone a long way in buying some Apple stock … It’d be worth over $1100 today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that\u2019s some real bang for the buck! <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If there was a year that really seems dated from the perspective of late 2019, it is 2009. Many trends that were hot then are essentially gone. There was a major shift in several tech areas that were just getting a toehold in the future at that 2009 CES show. Just for fun, let\u2019s see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}