Jason Unger

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If you haven't already, check out my newest articles over at CEPro.com, reporting from the showfloor of CEDIA Expo.

The first article, on the Blu-ray/HD DVD format war, led the CEA's Smartbrief on Thursday, Sept. 6.

Format War Invades CEDIA: Blu-ray, HD DVD and Hybrid Players Announced

Pioneer Launches BDP-95FD Elite Blu-ray Player, Mammoth Elite SC-09TX Receiver, 1080p KURO Displays

Niveus Shows Media Center Extender; Launches Control Server and n4 Entry-Level System

I'll have a few more up this week, once I'm back in the office and finish going through my notes.

Over the five days of the show — Wednesday to Sunday — we've covered more than 90 stories.

This week, I've been quite the busy little bee here at CEDIA Expo. It's probably the biggest event that we at CE Pro cover, with tons of product announcements, news and clients to meet.

As you can imagine, we've been working hard. It's especially grueling for those of us publishing on the Web.

Not only do we have to go to press conferences, booth appointments and company dinners, but we have to actually find time to write, edit and post the stories from the show — as soon as possible.

With 8 press conferences over two days and more booth tours than I can count (nearly all of them back to back), squeezing in time to fill in our readers with news from the show is a premium.

I've blogged from multiple press conferences (thanks to the handy Sprint USB Modem), ran back and forth from the show floor to the press room, and lugged my heavy laptop around everywhere.

Don't get me wrong — I'm not complaining. We've had some great traffic days because we are working super hard to get as many stories posted as possible (80 at last count from Wednesday to Friday).

But with the immediate nature of the Internet, if we don't get it posted first, someone else will. If you're not at the show, you crave to know what's going on. It's our job to deliver it, no matter what else we need to get done.

Even with the success we've had here at the show, there's so much more we could do. I've had lots of people ask me if I'm videoblogging from the show. I'd love to, but even with the people we have here, we still don't have enough hands to do it all.

That's OK, though. You've got to build up slowly.

Sooner or later, all of the press at these shows will be feeling the same crunch. There won't be magazine writers taking their time with writing stories because they don't go to press for another 3 weeks. You can already feel the shift happening at CES — where there were a lot of bloggers this past year — and it will trickle down soon enough.

That's what I've been doing recently — how about you?

I'm leaving tonight for CEDIA Expo, one of the biggest events in the custom electronics industry.

It should be fun, but busy. I've never been to Denver before, so I'm looking forward to seeing the city, taking some pictures and enjoying the mountain air.

On the other hand, heading out to expos is a big work event. Between press conferences, booth appointments, company events and actually running a Web site, there's barely any time to breathe.

Thankfully, I'll have the Sprint EVDO modem on hand, so I'll be online pretty much anywhere I need to be.

Getting there should be enjoyable — I'm flying JetBlue. Despite my last (negative) experience with the passenger sitting next to me, having a TV on the plane is the only way to fly.

I'll post pictures from the trip after I get back. In the meantime, enjoy our trip to Plymouth, Mass.