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hey guys Brian Chong here in Las Vegas at CES 2012 now we're just a couple days before the show starts everyone's unpacking their boxes and setting up their stages we wanted to give you guys a first look at what people will see here from the South Hall escalator and right away boom there you have it that is our 25-foot ever Brian screen with all the announcements of what's happening at our CNET booth and then next to it you have this amazing 8 foot in diameter shiny our CNET red ball logo we kind of like to call it the skittle because it looks like you could eat it but that guy we want to take that bad boy home with us after the show you'll also see right next to it our stage from behind you'll see a ticker on top that has all the latest information on what's happening over there but enough about the outside let's go inside the booth so you can show you what we have cooking inside there hey guys so we're here at the CES food we have all these boxes and crates that we're pretty much unpacked for the most part but well you guys came to see is voila our entire CES 2012 stage it looks beautiful right now we have our first looks q this is where a lot of our editors get the badges from the devices that you want to see they'll be shooting them here in front of everyone live then we're gonna kind of come out here into our lounge area this is where all of you guys kind of hang out with everyone you'll see here our friends of sprint have provided these charging stations because you know at CES you need power for your toys then we've got this amazing wall here we have three screens set up here and then I guess you could call this our wall of fame I don't know so much about that over here we have our little lounger where tablets we set up and the lovely the exclusive you know you want one of these how can I get them well come by our booth maybe you will alright let's keep on walking over here you'll see again this is our main stage area kind of a different look we'll have our entire setup with our plasma behind there this is where we'll have a lot of our live content going on but again it looks amazing it's really reaching up high in tall so we have a just an excellent presence here at CES now in past years you guys been able to see our editors hard at work from the outside this year you know they're kind of this cloth curtain type wall but we want to still show you what's happening the inside kind of some of like guts and the stuff that you really won't see it all if you're here at CES so let's just kind of walk you this way I'm going to take you over to our editing bayen stations this is where really all the action happens all the first looks all the pieces like the one that you see here they're all being done you guys are hard at work right really working alright this is the shows in two more days so you know they'll be hustling and crunching away in a little bit now there's also a lot of audio/video equipment that goes on behind the scenes that controls all the screens and all the visuals you guys see here at our CES 2012 booth so what we have over here laptops with laptops these are backups some of the content that we're displaying we have our flash animations for our schedules over here this is some of the video content that you'll see that appears on our plasmas and then this big rig over here this is the setup that controls that large 25-foot ever Brian's screen it pops and this is all the machinery that makes it work and then of course you see a lot of cables you see a lot of buttons but over here we love to have the screens within the screens that manages every single piece of content that you see pumped out from here and onto the stage so that's the back of our huge 25-foot ever Brian screen well let's take you right here into the control room your setting here where all the content is really directed and created and controlled now we have this little people that reveals the entire stage we still have people working on the stage right now let me let me give these guys a little bit of morale boost hey guys nice job with the tape see they like that all right now when we come out here also you'll see where all the cameras are viewing this will help our director put up the vision that he wants to see on the screen that you guys will see at home and then we're gonna kind of take you back down here because we have a lot of live content as streaming out here pretty much 24/7 during the entire CES 2012 show so what we have on our stage right we have all of our podcasts like buzz out loud the 404 we also have some amazing interviews that we're gonna be doing up here one of our huge feature panels is gonna be women and text you'll find that here on our stage also huge interviews with LL Cool J and 50 cent he's coming back to our stage as well now we'll have plenty of things and the biggest one of course is the best of si yes award show you can see right here so make sure you guys stick with us watch all of our coverage at CES cnet.com and all of our live coverage that the video first looks interviews panels and award show you can find that at cnet-dot-com-slash-loaded we're here in our booth at CES 2012 we can't wait to get it started and we'll see you guys all through the week