CES - DAY 3 - Transcript - Hour 1, Segment 8

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26 minutes before the hour thanks for tuning into the show*s special broadcast this weekend of Online Tonight live from the show floor at the Consumer Electronics Show. As we have been saying most of the week we are in the broadcast tower in the North Hall. There is the North Hall, the Central Hall, the South Hall and then there are outlying areas at the Hilton and at the other hotels because the show is just too big for this one building and we are in the last booth. If you are coming here to visit us here in Las Vegas at the show we are in the last booth before you get to the Utah border. We are in the Northeast of the North Hall and we just, we are having a great time. We overlooked the mobile area and we have people coming in. Now, we are talking to today is an old friend from Logitech Nathan Papadopulos and we understand that you are one of the contestants in the Last Gadget Standing.

Nathan Papadopulos: Yeah actually I just ran over from here. I was helping Mike Warner said up who is our tradeshow manager and we hope it goes well. He is the first one on. So we are -- 676 with a media center pc.

David Lawrence: That*s what we wanted to talk to you about was the Harmony Remote. Now I mentioned briefly before we came on the air that one of the great horrors of my life is my coffee table right?

Nathan Papadopulos: And you are not the only one.

David Lawrence: My coffee table is laid with long sort of flattened cylindrical devices with many, many buttons on all of them. I have got one for my cable box, I have got one for my television, I have got one for my DVD, I have got one for my home theater system. And they are all set in there and then you get another device you get another remote and, I mean Universal Remotes have been around for a couple of decades now.

Nathan Papadopulos: Yeah.

David Lawrence: If you are going all the way back to the old radio shack days you know supposedly you are supposed to break this all down into one device that can recognize all the IR codes and take care of business. It never seems to happen that way. Ever these companies they make these containers that you can fit 9 different remotes in and they sell like hot cakes. What*s wrong with the Universal Remote market and how is Logitech stuff going to fix that?

Nathan Papadopulos: Okay well the one thing that*s different about the Harmony Remote Control is driven by an online community database. So what you do is you log onto the website and create your own account and once you have put in all of the components that make up your home stereo system you download that by a USB into your remote control.

David Lawrence: So you actually say I have a Denon home theater model DAV 5500 and I have a Sony television you know model blah, blah, blah and you put all that stuff in creating your own profile.

Nathan Papadopulos: Exactly and so the majority of those are actually in there, we have tens of thousands of products already in our database. But to say you are coming back from CES, you just saw the latest Philips Flat Screen, well have you?

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